Full Stack Developer

Gamer’s Choice is a team of passionate gamers, creators, and innovators based in Queens, New York. What began as a small local shop has grown into one of the leading destinations for Trading Card Game players and collectors around the world. We’re driven by a shared love for gaming and community, offering both an engaging online experience and a vibrant in-store atmosphere.

Our mission is to be the ultimate home for fans to connect, compete, and celebrate the games they love. While Yu-Gi-Oh! has always been our foundation, we’re expanding into exciting new titles like Pokémon, One Piece, Riftbound, and Disney Lorcana. Our Long Island City store serves as the heart of our community, hosting tournaments, events, and gatherings that bring players together both in person and online.

Location: 34-09 Queens Blvd, Long Island City, NY 11101

Compensation: $80,000 to $110,000 annually DOE

Reports To: Chief of Staff

You’ll be the sole owner of an internal tool that our team relies on every day to run operations across the business. It’s the operational backbone of how we run, and it needs an owner. You’ll report to the Chief of Staff, who is the product owner. She’ll set priorities and bring you well‑defined problems from across the operation. You own all technical decisions and execution.

The two of you will work as a tight team: she knows the business and the operation, and you bring the technical depth.

We’re looking for someone who pushes back, brings ideas, and is comfortable suggesting more efficient processes or approaches that we haven’t thought of yet; we’re not looking for someone to silently work through a ticket queue. The codebase was originally built with AI‑assisted tooling and continues to grow that way. Comfort with AI development tools isn’t optional. We expect you to use them well, refine what they produce, and have a clear point of view on how they fit into a production workflow.

• Own the internal tool end to end: architecture, features, bug fixes, deployments, and long‑term maintainability
• Take problems from the Chief of Staff and translate them into working software, with technical decisions owned by you and product direction set by her
• Write clean, well‑documented code that another developer could pick up if needed
• Manage version control, testing, and deployment workflows so updates ship smoothly and the system stays stable
• Use AI development tools as part of your normal workflow, with the judgment to know when AI‑generated code is good enough and when it needs to be rewritten
• Bring forward your expertise, best practices and ideas based on what you see in the codebase and across the operation
• Help with basic IT tasks across the team when needed, including new employee device setup, account provisioning, and troubleshooting day‑to‑day hardware or software issues
• Be available for on‑call coverage of critical issues. We run a 24/7 operation, and the right candidate is comfortable responding to urgent issues outside of standard hours when they come up

• At least 3 years of professional development experience, with at least one role where you owned a production application or service end to end
• Strong full‑stack capability – you move between frontend and backend comfortably. Working knowledge of React, Node.js, and SQL‑based databases is required
• An AI‑assisted workflow – you actively use tools like Claude, Cursor, or Copilot as part of how you ship code, and you can read, debug, and refactor AI‑generated code with good judgment.
• Comfort being the sole developer – you’re not waiting on a tech lead to tell you what to build next
• Comfort being managed by a non‑technical product owner – you can take well‑defined problems and run with them, and you can push back when identifying a better opportunity for improvement
• Strong written and verbal communication – you can explain technical trade‑offs to a non‑technical audience and document your work for stakeholders
• Comfort with basic IT tasks – you can set up a laptop and troubleshoot common hardware and software issues
• Good judgment on shipping –you know the difference between code that’s good enough to ship and code that…