“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” — Alice Choose Your Door… Door A: The Safe Hallway Fluoro lights. Endless standups. PRs that wait… and wait. Door B: The Rabbit Hole A Chatswood game studio building international titles —prototypes turn playable in days. UI states sparkle, pipelines ping, and designers ask, “Can this menu feel… curiouser?” You smile, open your editor, and React. If you’re a Door B dev, read on. (Door A folks—we wish you many functional fluorescents ) The Quest Turn imaginative ideas into polished, performant game interfaces for web and mobile. One day it’s micro-animation timing so a button pops; the next it’s wiring a Node-powered API into a TypeScript state machine and shipping via CI/CD. You’ll work in game development on projects played by audiences around the world. “Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.” — Cheshire Cat Power-Ups You Already Wield React TypeScript mastery for reusable, accessible UI components Node.js experience (SSR/APIs/integration) CI/CD familiarity (GitHub Actions/GitLab/CircleCI) 3 years building and shipping front-end features in production Nice to Have (Not Essential) Mandarin language skills — valuable but not a deal breaker Next.js , WebSockets/real-time updates, performance profiling Testing with Jest/RTL/Playwright/Cypress Game/web graphics tinkering (Canvas, WebGL, PixiJS/Three.js) The Map & The Loot Where: Chatswood studio, on-site 5 days/week (buzzing dev floor playtest nook) Salary: A$110k–$140k super (mid to senior, commensurate with experience) Start: As soon as you’re ready to tumble down the rabbit hole Work rights: AU work rights required (no sponsorship this round) Why This Adventure? Ship fast: Weekly releases, instant player feedback Small team, big impact: Your ideas won’t get lost in the forest Creative runway: If you can prototype it, you can pitch it How to Enter the Rabbit Hole Send your CV plus a few lines on the trickiest front-end puzzle you’ve cracked (links to repos/demos welcome). If you’ve ever made a micro-interaction feel like magic, we want to see it. Apply: — Big Wave Digital Since 1998, we’ve been the talent ally for Australia’s most imaginative tech & gaming teams. Ready to pick Door B? Apply now and let’s build something wonderfully mad together. “I’m late! I’m late! For a very important date!” — White Rabbit
