Weekend

ABOUT US Weekend https://www.weekend.com/ (formerly Volley https://www.volleygames.com/) is the leading developer of voice AI games for smart TVs. Our games attract millions of users every month, with family favorites like Jeopardy!, Song Quiz, CoComelon: Sing and Play with JJ, and Wheel of Fortune. We believe voice interfaces will become the main way people access entertainment in their living rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, and cars. We’re building a bundled subscription product similar to Netflix or Spotify for the emerging category of “AI-powered games.” Weekend was founded by Max Child and James Wilsterman in 2024. The founders went through Y Combinator in 2018 and landed a spot on the 2022 YC Top Companies List. We’re a quickly-growing team headquartered in Union Square, San Francisco. ROLE SUMMARY Weekend is looking for a Senior Technical Recruiter to own end-to-end technical hiring across our fastest-growing teams. You'll partner closely with leadership to source and close high-quality technical talent, maintain a best-in-class candidate experience, and bring a thoughtful talent advisor mindset to every role you own. This is a strategic partnership role at a lean, high-velocity startup where every hire matters. This job opportunity offers a hybrid work arrangement, and we are specifically seeking candidates who are comfortable with on-site attendance in our Bay Area office 3 times per week and are either currently residing in or near the Bay Area or willing to relocate for on-site work. WHAT YOU'LL DO AT WEEKEND - Own full-cycle technical recruiting for open roles across technical teams. - Develop and maintain a robust talent network to proactively build pipelines. - Curate a high-touch, exceptional candidate experience at every stage of the process — from first outreach to offer accepted. - Own sourcing and interviewing metrics, tracking and communicating progress aligned with company hiring goals. - Serve as a talent advisor to your hiring partners — advising on role scoping, candidate market, and hiring decisions. MUST HAVE - 4–6 years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, with at least 3+ YOE in-house at a startup. - A track record of sourcing and closing senior technical talent in competitive markets. - Deep familiarity with technical roles — you can hold your own in conversations about engineering stacks, hiring bar, and team structure. - Experience partnering with senior leadership on role scope, talent mapping, and overall team structure. - Comfortable with data — you understand and own hiring metrics and use insights to iterate on process. - Proficiency with Ashby (or comparable ATS), LinkedIn Recruiter, and sourcing tools. NICE TO HAVE - Experience recruiting in gaming, AI/ML, or other niche technical verticals. - An existing network of senior technical talent you can tap immediately. - Warm-funnel engagement or employer branding experience. - Familiarity with quality-of-hire metrics and how to define them in partnership with leadership. OUR STACK - Ashby, - LinkedIn Recruiter - Claude, ChatGPT - Notion THE HIRING PROCESS - Stage 1 (Preliminary Screen): with our Recruiting Ops Lead - Stage 2 (Hiring Manager Screen): with our Head of Recruiting - Stage 3 (Onsite Interview): Onsite with direct team and cross-functional stakeholders - Stage 4 (Founder Chat): with our CEO As an AI company, we’re a huge believer in the value of AI tools. That being said, the interview process is intended as a conversation - we want to get to know you and your experience. Please refrain from using AI tools during all Weekend interviews unless otherwise specified. WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU - Your medical, dental, and vision insurance is 100% covered by Weekend, for yourself and all dependents and we match 401k! - We offer a flexible, hybrid work-from-home and in-office work model. - We offer unlimited paid time off (enforced 2-week minimum), 16 paid holidays, 40 hours of bereavement leave, and unlimited sick days. - Our generous pare

ABOUT US Weekend https://www.weekend.com/ (formerly Volley https://www.volleygames.com/) is the leading developer of voice AI games for smart TVs. Our games attract millions of users every month, with family favorites like Jeopardy!, Song Quiz, CoComelon: Sing and Play with JJ, and Wheel of Fortune. We believe voice interfaces will become the main way people access entertainment in their living rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, and cars. We’re building a bundled subscription product similar to Netflix or Spotify for the emerging category of “AI-powered games.” Weekend was founded by Max Child and James Wilsterman in 2024. The founders went through Y Combinator in 2018 and landed a spot on the 2022 YC Top Companies List. We’re a quickly-growing team headquartered in Union Square, San Francisco. ROLE SUMMARY We’re looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our AI Game Engine team. You will lead a high performing team of software and ML engineers building the systems and services needed to deliver best-in-class voice-first AI-native gaming experiences to our players on connected TVs and other gaming surfaces. This is a new team responsible for building and evolving our core voice and model integrations along with other services needed to deliver our game development and runtime platform. This includes speech-to-text and text-to-speech pipelines, LLM game integration, model evaluation and fine tuning, image generation pipelines, and content/prompt management. You will work closely with our Game and Platform teams as well as cross functional partners in Product and Data to drive our AI and game engine strategy. You will identify impactful opportunities, rapidly ship new features, and your products to support current and future players. We’re actively expanding our game titles and platforms and this is an opportunity to play a pivotal role in creating innovative, fun applications in voice-activated gaming across connected devices. This job opportunity offers a hybrid work arrangement, and we are specifically seeking candidates who are comfortable with on-site attendance in our Bay Area office 3 times per week and are either currently residing in or near the Bay Area or willing to relocate for on-site work. WHAT YOU'LL DO AT WEEKEND - Lead and grow a high performing team of engineers, ensuring we build the right things at the right time to support our evolving gaming ecosystem. - We are an AI-first development shop - evangelize and leverage AI productivity and development tools within your team and help drive adoption across the company. - Partner closely with Product and Game teams to define the roadmap, set priorities, deliver delightful and impactful features. - Build and scale systems and services to enable fun, engaging and unique player experiences leveraging STT/TTS, LLMs and other core technologies. - Collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams to identify upstream and downstream dependencies, align delivery schedules, and streamline release processes. - Foster a culture of ownership, continuous learning, and product thinking within the team. - Ensure the technical excellence of the team by providing feedback, promoting best practices, and helping remove roadblocks. WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT YOU BECAUSE YOU HAVE - 2+ years managing engineering teams, with a proven record of cultivating productivity and team satisfaction. - Demonstrated ability to build and grow high performing engineering teams - 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, ideally in fast-paced consumer product environments. - Experience successfully building and evolving AI integrations leveraging STT/TTS/LLM and similar models. - Demonstrated cross-functional collaboration, with strong communication skills and a bias toward action. - Experience building and running scalable services and/or software platforms including monitoring, alerting and incident response. BONUS POINTS - Experience and personal interest with gaming, interactive media, a

ABOUT US Weekend https://www.weekend.com/ (formerly Volley https://www.volleygames.com/) is the leading developer of voice AI games for smart TVs. Our games attract millions of users every month, with family favorites like Jeopardy!, Song Quiz, CoComelon: Sing and Play with JJ, and Wheel of Fortune. We believe voice interfaces will become the main way people access entertainment in their living rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, and cars. We’re building a bundled subscription product similar to Netflix or Spotify for the emerging category of “AI-powered games.” Weekend was founded by Max Child and James Wilsterman in 2024. The founders went through Y Combinator in 2018 and landed a spot on the 2022 YC Top Companies List. We’re a quickly-growing team headquartered in Union Square, San Francisco. ROLE SUMMARY Weekend is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to ensure the stability, security, and scalability of our infrastructure as our AI gaming platform grows. You'll own our Kubernetes cluster, lead security improvements, drive infrastructure automation and best practices, administer AWS accounts, and serve as the primary infrastructure partner for our software engineering teams. This is a foundational role — you'll directly enable Weekend's game teams to move fast without compromising reliability. This job opportunity offers a hybrid work arrangement, and we are specifically seeking candidates who are comfortable with on-site attendance in our Bay Area office 3 times per week and are either currently residing in or near the Bay Area or willing to relocate for on-site work. WHAT YOU’LL DO AT WEEKEND - Manage and ensure the stability of Weekend's Kubernetes cluster (EKS) - Audit and enhance our infrastructure security posture, including secrets management and secure-by-default design - Lead the adoption of infrastructure best practices through automation and internal education - Administer Weekend's AWS account(s), including IAM, networking, cost management, and cloud resource governance across all environments - Empower software engineers to manage their own infrastructure through self-service tooling and robust documentation - Pair with software engineers to solve their day-to-day infrastructure problems - Define a proactive security strategy that bakes best practices into the developer workflow - Develop an infrastructure strategy for our AI initiative WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT YOU BECAUSE YOU HAVE: - 6+ years of experience in infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, or cloud engineering roles - Proven experience administering large numbers of remote machines (Kubernetes, ECS, Terraform, Ansible) - Experience building developer-facing platforms or internal tools that make engineering teams more productive - Strong security fundamentals: secrets management, threat modeling, and secure-by-default design - Experience managing build automation (Travis, Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub Actions) - A track record of operating in fast-moving environments with rapid product iteration - High ownership mentality — you treat infrastructure problems as your problems to solve - Deep user empathy — you build for the developers who depend on your systems BONUS POINTS: - Experience with modern NodeJS, JVM, or similar modern runtimes - Background working on large-scale gaming or consumer platforms - Experience with observability tooling (e.g., DataDog) OUR STACK - AWS - Kubernetes on EKS - GitOps (FluxCD) - Terraform - AWS GameLift Streams - GitHub Actions - DataDog - TypeScript/NodeJS - React - Unity THE HIRING PROCESS - Stage 1 (Recruiter Screen): 30-minute call with a member of our recruiting team - Stage 2 (Manager Screen + Technical Round): 45 minute call with the hiring manager and a 60min live technical session with the engineering team - Stage 3 (Onsite): Panel interviews with various team members - Stage 4 (Founders Chat): Conversation with our founders As an AI company, we’re a huge believer in the value of AI tools. That being said, the interview process is inte

ABOUT US Weekend https://www.weekend.com/ is the leading developer of voice AI games for smart TVs. Our games attract millions of users every month, with family favorites like Jeopardy!, Song Quiz, CoComelon: Sing and Play with JJ, and Wheel of Fortune. We believe voice interfaces will become the main way people access entertainment in their living rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, and cars. We’re building a bundled subscription product similar to Netflix or Spotify for the emerging category of “AI-powered games.” Weekend was founded by Max Child and James Wilsterman in 2024. The founders went through Y Combinator in 2018 and landed a spot on the 2022 YC Top Companies List. We’re a quickly-growing team headquartered in Union Square, San Francisco. ROLE SUMMARY Growth Engineering owns Weekend's bundled gaming experience - the first thing users see across all TV platforms. We build and maintain the features that shape how players discover, adopt, and stick with our games, from the core product experience to growth experiments that move business metrics. In this role, you'll work across the full stack of a consumer-facing product alongside product and design partners. It's a high-impact position for engineers who want real ownership over what ships - and who thrive at the intersection of engineering, product, and data. WHAT YOU’LL DO AT WEEKEND - Partner with Product to refine requirements, write technical specs, and deliver features from concept to launch - Collaborate with Design to create delightful, intuitive experiences for users - Proactively identify risks, shape engineering decisions, and mentor teammates - Use data to inform engineering decisions and measure the impact of shipped features - Contribute to code reviews and maintain a high standard of code quality, architecture, and performance on the team WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT YOU BECAUSE YOU HAVE: - 6+ years of software engineering experience - Strong command of TypeScript and React in production environments - A track record of driving initiatives across teams, not just solo shipping - Comfort working across CI/CD pipelines and multi-platform compatibility - The ability to work across the full stack - client and server - and own features end-to-end from prototype to production - Data-driven decision-making with user-first mentality. - Comfort operating in ambiguous environments. BONUS POINTS: - Experience with gaming, interactive media, or AI-powered consumer applications. - Prior work on cross-platform products across mobile, smart TVs or voice assistants. OUR STACK - Typescript / Node.js / React - iOS / Android mobile apps - Smart TV web runtime + game streaming THE HIRING PROCESS - Stage 1 (Preliminary Video Call): with a member of our recruitment team - Stage 2 (Virtual Engineering Panel): with various members of our engineering team - Stage 3 (Onsite Interview): with various partners and team members - Stage 4 (Founder Chat) with our Founders As an AI company, we’re a huge believer in the value of AI tools. That being said, the interview process is intended as a conversation - we want to get to know you and your experience. Please refrain from using AI tools during all Weekend interviews unless otherwise specified. WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU - Your medical, dental, and vision insurance is 100% covered by Weekend, for yourself and all dependents and we match 401k! - We offer a flexible, hybrid work-from-home and in-office work model. - We offer unlimited paid time off (enforced 2-week minimum), 16 paid holidays, 40 hours of bereavement leave, and unlimited sick days. - Our generous parental leave policy includes 24 weeks at 100% pay for birthing parents and 12 weeks at 100% pay for non-birthing parents. - We offer visa support for eligible candidates, making relocating for the job smoother and more streamlined. - A full breakdown of our benefits is here https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQTxulbgcRPV6OPHv2mj4X-RYAo9eKk4KQwNZYRJDpBsBHXbMpwCOBvploBJxW3zUZJm36-YU4TXoYK/pub! F

ABOUT US Weekend https://www.weekend.com/ (formerly Volley https://www.volleygames.com/) is the leading developer of voice AI games for smart TVs. Our games attract millions of users every month, with family favorites like Jeopardy!, Song Quiz, CoComelon: Sing and Play with JJ, and Wheel of Fortune. We believe voice interfaces will become the main way people access entertainment in their living rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, and cars. We’re building a bundled subscription product similar to Netflix or Spotify for the emerging category of “AI-powered games.” Weekend was founded by Max Child and James Wilsterman in 2024. The founders went through Y Combinator in 2018 and landed a spot on the 2022 YC Top Companies List. We’re a quickly-growing team headquartered in Union Square, San Francisco. ROLE SUMMARY Weekend is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Games team, embedded on Jeopardy or Song Quiz. You'll work across the full game development lifecycle — from prototyping new features to shipping production-quality experiences — using TypeScript, React, and AWS GameLift Streams. This role is critical to maintaining development velocity on two of our most strategically important titles. WHAT YOU'LL DO AT WEEKEND - Build and improve game features using TypeScript and React for Jeopardy or Song Quiz - Deliver polished game experiences streamed to players via AWS GameLift Streams - Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and participate in code reviews - Ensure cross-device compatibility across supported platforms - Work across the full game development lifecycle, from prototyping through production-quality delivery - Proactively identify risks, shape engineering decisions, and mentor teammates over time WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT YOU BECAUSE YOU HAVE - 6+ years of software engineering experience - Strong command of TypeScript and React in production environments - Experience shipping real-time or game-adjacent products at scale - A track record of collaborating closely in team environments (not just solo shipping) - Comfort working across CI/CD pipelines and multi-platform compatibility - The ability to move fluidly across the full stack of a product lifecycle — from prototype to release BONUS POINTS - Experience with Unity and/or Unreal Engine - Shader and WebGL / ThreeJS development - Familiarity with AWS services such as EC2 and Lambda - React Three Fiber (R3F) - Experience on live-ops or games-as-a-service titles OUR STACK - TypeScript, React, ThreeJS, React3Fibre (R3F), CI/CD pipelines, Git THE HIRING PROCESS - Stage 1 (Preliminary Video Call): with a member of our recruitment team - Stage 2 (Engineering Panel): with various members of our engineering team - Stage 3 (Onsite Interview): with various partners and team members - Stage 4 (Founder Chat) with our Founders As an AI company, we’re a huge believer in the value of AI tools. That being said, the interview process is intended as a conversation - we want to get to know you and your experience. Please refrain from using AI tools during all Weekend interviews unless otherwise specified WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU - Your medical, dental, and vision insurance is 100% covered by Weekend, for yourself and all dependents and we match 401k! - We offer a flexible, hybrid work-from-home and in-office work model. - We offer unlimited paid time off (enforced 2-week minimum), 16 paid holidays, 40 hours of bereavement leave, and unlimited sick days. - Our generous parental leave policy includes 24 weeks at 100% pay for birthing parents and 12 weeks at 100% pay for non-birthing parents. - We offer visa support for eligible candidates, making relocating for the job smoother and more streamlined. - A full breakdown of our benefits is here https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQ7K6szb7ED3DaVpqklprv6Ot_bXKrcsFzvy18FbLEf5RxGSQKBbcb27vfqRiP3fwh_nR6VrowDgASm/pub! For Pay Transparency: The final offer amount may depend on experience, education, skills, and location. Base pay is one part of the total pac