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Founding Engineer (Full Stack Web)

United States, San Francisco Employment contract 150000.00 - 215000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted January 07, 2026
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Pax Historia is an alternate-history sandbox game where players choose a country, a moment in time, and rewrite the course of history. We’re backed by Y Combinator, Pace Capital, and Z Fellows, have seen nearly 20 million rounds played, and are growing quickly. Your work will immediately ship to a product used by hundreds of thousands of players.

Job Responsibility

  • Help build and improve the customer experience of paxhistoria.co
  • Frequently help with other ad-hoc projects as needed

Requirements

  • Extremely comfortable with cross-functional full-stack development
  • Able to think through problems, create workable solutions, and debug complex code on your own
  • Experience using NextJS
  • Experience using Typescript
  • Experience using Firestore
  • Experience using Supabase
  • Experience using R2
  • US citizen/visa only
  • 1+ years experience

Nice to have

  • Experience with NextJS
  • Experience with Typescript
  • Experience with Firestore
  • Experience with Supabase
  • Experience with R2

What we offer

  • 0.25% - 1% equity
  • 12 month cliff and 4 year monthly vesting
  • Non-matching 401k plan
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