Full stack web developer (design engineer)

You will build and maintain a website presented in-universe as the corporate terminal of Galatea Systems, a fictional corporation within the QUANTUM 13 story. It is a subscription platform with four connected systems: a digital lore vault (a growing, searchable archive of characters, factions, technology, and timeline events, including hosted video); a membership system (registration, login, and recurring paid subscriptions to access gated content); a community forum (a threaded, Reddit-style discussion space); and a merch store running on Shopify integrated with the site. Visual direction, brand, and user flows are provided. Your job is to turn them into a fast, secure, well-structured product, and then keep it running and growing.

Key responsibilities

• Build a CMS-backed content system for the Digital Lore Vault that non-technical team members can operate without a developer
• Implement search, filtering, and navigation systems that remain usable as the archive grows into hundreds of entries
• Set up subscriber-exclusive video hosting through services such as Mux, Cloudflare Stream, or Vimeo, with signed URLs and adaptive streaming

Implement user registration, authentication, and account management using an established auth provider, with recurring billing for monthly or yearly subscriptions

• Enforce gated content server-side so paywalled material never appears in the page source of unauthenticated requests
• Build growth mechanics including discount and promo codes, gift subscriptions, and free trial periods
• Configure Shopify store integration on your own domain with theme customisation and bridge site accounts with Shopify customer accounts
• Build a threaded, Reddit-style community forum with single sign-on, moderation tooling, notifications, and thread subscriptions

Set up transactional and marketing email infrastructure with correct domain authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC)Implement full analytics across site and store with e-commerce tracking, audience insights, and an admin dashboard or documented reporting setup

Implement server-side rendering or static generation with sitemaps, canonicals, metadata, and strong Core Web Vitals on mobile

Set up staging environment, version control in a Somex Studios-owned repository, automated backups with tested restore processes, and uptime monitoring with alerting

Implement cookie consent that gates analytics and marketing scripts, GDPR-compliant data handling, and terms of service, privacy policy, and refund policy enforcement

About you

• Demonstrable experience building and shipping production websites end to end, not mockups
• Experience integrating a headless CMS such as Sanity, Payload, Contentful, or Strapi, including designing content models for non-technical editors
• Experience with authentication and paid subscriptions using providers such as Stripe, with ability to explain how to enforce gated content server-side
• Shopify integration and theme customisation experience
• Fluent English speaking and writing capability

Strong advantages: practical SEO with results, gated or protected video delivery, email infrastructure, building or deploying a community forum with real moderation needs, analytics implementation including e-commerce event tracking

Also valued: work for entertainment, music, gaming, or fandom brands; experience with membership or subscription content platforms; motion and interaction work such as GSAP, Framer Motion, or WebGLAbout us

Somex Studios is an AI-native entertainment studio creating original stories, characters, music, and cinematic worlds for a global audience. Our flagship series, QUANTUM 13, reflects our ambition to build an enduring fictional universe, combining creative direction, filmmaking, and music with generative technology to work at a speed and scale previously out of reach for an independent studio.