Inkwell started from a simple idea: making classic pen-and-paper logic games as fun and social as word games. We’ve reimagined them for the digital age: thoughtfully crafted daily puzzles that challenge your logical thinking, help keep your brain sharp, build healthy screen time habits, and bring recreational math into everyday life.

No ads. No manipulation. No dark patterns. Just really good puzzles and a community that genuinely loves them. We aim to be the leading puzzle platform for math and logic games, built on principles of healthy, human-centered play.

We are growing fast, and it is time to bring on our first full-time engineer.

The role

This is a generalist role. You enjoy working across the full stack—lots of frontend, backend, infra, data, and eventually mobile. You will be the second full-time person at Inkwell, working directly alongside the founder. Enormous ownership and real impact on what gets built.

Day to day, you will be:

• Building and launching our next games
• Running growth experiments: A/B tests, onboarding flows, landing pages, retention hooks
• Embedding games across third-party sites
• Helping decide if we should build an app…then doing it if so
• Sourcing and building algorithmic solvers, hint systems, and puzzle authorship tooling
• Reading every piece of user feedback that comes in (you do not have to respond to it, but you have to know what is happening). Our community is one of our greatest assets. When we debate what to build, we ask them. You will learn to love them too.

And yes, there is housekeeping too. Writing scripts to pull data, integrating third-party tools, getting pixels to behave.

The stack

This is a web platform, not a native game. No Unity, no game engines. Our stack is TypeScript, React, Tailwind, Supabase, Vercel, Resend, Stripe, and PostHog. Mobile is TBD and we will figure it out together (likely React Native).

Who we are looking for

Mid-to-senior level. You have shipped real web and software products and can prove it.