GeoGuessr

EXPLORE THE WORLD. CREATE THE EXPERIENCE. Do you love turning creative ideas into playful, engaging experiences? Are you the kind of developer who sees something cool and immediately wants to build it? At GeoGuessr, we’re looking for a creative frontend developer who combines a strong eye for UI with solid technical skills and the curiosity to bring ideas to life. You’ll help shape the experience for millions of players worldwide, creating features that are not only functional but also fun, intuitive, and visually engaging. The role You’ll work at the intersection of creativity, design, and technology, collaborating closely with designers and product managers to create engaging game experiences. We’re looking for someone who doesn’t just implement designs but brings ideas to the table, experiments, and takes ownership from concept to finished feature. You have hands-on experience building web applications and care about how things look, feel, and perform. Your main focus will be frontend development, but you understand how APIs and backend services work together. What you will do: Build playful, polished, and interactive experiences for millions of players. * Turn ideas and designs into high-quality, production-ready features. * Collaborate with Design and Product to explore ideas and improve the player experience. * Take initiative, experiment, and drive solutions forward independently. * Create reusable UI components with attention to performance, usability, and visual details. * Work with APIs and occasionally make smaller backend changes, using AI tools where helpful. What we hope you’ll bring: * Hands-on experience with modern web development, particularly React and TypeScript. * A creative mindset and a strong eye for UI, interactions, and visual details. * Experience turning ideas into working solutions, with an understanding of performance and code quality. * A self-starter mentality – you take initiative and enjoy figuring things out. * A solid understanding of how web applications work, including APIs and frontend/backend communication. * Curiosity about AI-assisted development and the ability to understand and evaluate the solutions you build. * A collaborative mindset and a genuine interest in games and playful digital experiences. Its extra nice if you bring: * Experience building games or other interactive web experiences. * Experience with animations, motion design, Three.js, WebGL, or creative coding. * Familiarity with Figma, design systems, or component libraries. * Personal projects that showcase your creativity and technical skills. Who you are: * You’re curious, creative, and love building things. * You care about how something looks, feels, and works – not just whether the code runs. * You enjoy collaborating with others, but you’re equally comfortable taking ownership, exploring ideas, and making things happen. * Most importantly, you love creating experiences that make people smile. * Built something you’re proud of? We’d love to see it! Whether it’s a game, an interactive website, or a creative experiment, show us what you enjoy creating. Wait, there's more! We're offering a package of perks to keep you charged up and ready to create wonders: * Daily breakfast and lunch at the office. * 6 weeks of vacation + 3 extra days off, for a well-deserved rest. * Pension and insurance as per ITP1 guidelines. * 50,000 SEK education benefit. * 5,000 SEK wellness allowance. * Free massage once a month * A high energy and very much alive office. We encourage exercise during working hours. We provide a large selection of snacks and drinks for recovery. A home to simply enjoy. This role is based in Stockholm where we have invested in creating our unique home at Katarinavägen 17, in the glass house by Slussen. * or equivalent experience (Higher Vocational Education (Yrkeshögskola) may be sufficient only if compensated trough extensive work experience).

GeoGuessrs mission is to explore and learn about the world! We take the players on a global adventure, combining geography and trivia in a fun, engaging way. Since 2013, we've transformed the world into a playground for the curious. In recent years, we've built a talented team of 85 people, crafting new ways for our players to explore the world. GeoGuessr has a passionate global community and is played worldwide. The Role As a Dev Manager your primary responsibility is to ensure that our developers are happy, motivated, engaged, and achieving our shared goals. You will oversee and empower our talented developers to ensure that they are well equipped to contribute to technical excellence and participate in the collaborative nature of game development. You'll work closely with a variety of stakeholders including developers, product managers, and designers to help your team members to deliver innovative gaming experiences. This is a 12-month fixed-term position, with the possibility of extension. What You'll Do (in short): * Mentor and coach developers to foster their professional growth, enhance engagement and align your team with company goals. * Conduct regular feedback sessions, set individual development plans, manage salaries and handle staff related challenges to maintain a high performing team * Oversee team dynamics, address challenges, celebrate successes, to be able to drive strategic and operational improvements. * Ensure teams have the right skills and talent by actively recruiting top candidates as well as aligning current resources. * Drive technical OKRs by managing projects and collaborate with tech leads and other stakeholders to enhance platforms and roadmaps. This is the perfect role for you if you’re passionate about helping people excel, driving innovation, and contributing to a constantly evolving company! What We Hope You’ll Bring: * Experience in leading and managing developers (10+ people) with a focus on motivation, engagement, and growth. * Experience in recruiting and staffing technical talent, including creating job ads, sourcing candidates, and managing interview processes. * Experience in people management such as conducting feedback sessions, salary reviews, and conducting personal development plans, ensuring team members feel supported and valued. * Familiarity with modern development practices, tools, and methodologies. * Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Wait, there's more! We're offering a package of perks to keep you charged up and ready to create wonders: * Daily breakfast and lunch at the office. * 6 weeks of vacation + 3 extra days off for a well-deserved break. * Pension and insurance as per industry standards. * 50,000 SEK education benefit. * 5,000 SEK wellness allowance. * Vibrant and engaging office environment promoting work-life balance. * Opportunities for professional growth and development within a supportive team culture. This role is based at our unique office in Stockholm, located at Katarinavägen 17, in the glass house by Slussen. Keywords: software development manager, engineering manager, team Development manager, people manager, staff engineering manager

Are you passionate about world-class game experiences and exceptional UI craft? Come help us shape the future of GeoGuessr and raise the quality of an experience enjoyed by more than 100 million players worldwide. We’re looking for a UI Design Lead to set the direction for UI at GeoGuessr and help our designers consistently create great player experiences. The role As UI Design Lead, you will own the craft direction, quality and consistency of UI design across GeoGuessr. This is a hands-on craft leadership role, not a people manager role. You will work closely with our UI designers throughout the design process, helping them solve difficult problems, challenge ideas and raise the quality of their work. You will define what great UI means at GeoGuessr, across UX, visual design, interaction and motion, and build the principles, systems and ways of working that help us get there. You will also work closely with Game Art and Front End to make sure art, design and technology come together as one coherent player experience. What you’ll do Set the direction and quality bar for UI, UX and interaction design Mentor UI designers and help strengthen the UI craft Lead design critique and create a strong culture of feedback and exploration Develop our design principles, systems and interaction patterns Improve consistency across browser, Steam and mobile Partner with Game Art to integrate art seamlessly into the player experience Partner with Front End to improve the path from design to implementation Help establish how motion, sound and VFX support the UI experience Explore new tools and technology that can improve how we design Who are you? You have a strong background in UI or product design, with excellent visual judgment and a passion for craft. You are an experienced design leader who has led teams, disciplines or significant design initiatives. You know how to set direction, create alignment and raise the quality of the work, while still being comfortable getting into the details yourself. You enjoy helping designers grow through feedback, critique and collaboration, and you know how to lead through influence and craft rather than formal people management. You understand that great game UI is more than screens: UX, visual design, interaction, art, motion and technology all contribute to how an experience feels. We believe you have Strong experience in UI and visual design Proven leadership experience within UI, product design or a related design discipline Experience setting direction and raising the quality bar for a design team Strong UX and interaction design skills Experience with design systems and scalable design patterns Experience collaborating closely with engineering Excellent judgment around quality, consistency and craft The ability to turn a creative vision into practical direction Nice to have: experience with games, motion design, game art, VFX/sound, multi-platform products or AI-assisted design. We review applications on a rolling basis, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The final application deadline is September 25.