Senior Data Engineer

Role overview

PokerDen is hiring a data engineer to build the game's data foundation: recording every hand, tracking how players use the game, and supplying clean data to our AI work. PokerDen is a social Texas Hold'em game: players create an account, take a seat and play with friends in real time. It uses play chips only, with no real-money betting. The working MVP has a full Hold'em engine, real-time tables over Socket.io, and player accounts with chip balances saved in MongoDB. Hands are played out on the server, but their history is not saved yet, and there is no analytics or data pipeline. You'll build that from the start. What you’ll do You'll own PokerDen's data from the moment it is created to the moment someone uses it. In your first months, that means: 1. Record every hand. Design and build hand history storage: every deal, action, pot and result, linked to the players and table, in a format that is easy to query and replay. 2. Track how the game is used. Set up event tracking for sign-ups, sessions, table joins, chip top-ups and churn, and build the dashboards the team uses to decide what to build next. 3. Watch the chip economy.