Senior Engineer, VRChat
Experience
+ Stock Options
Virtual world platform
Open for applications
Virtual world platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
+ Stock Options
101-200 employees
Company mission
To build VRChat into one of the most successful community-driven social VR platforms in existence.
Role
Who you are
- We’re hiring an engineer who’s interested in designing and building the backend tech that powers the VRChat experience
- If you’re passionate about leveraging data to enhance the user experience through recommendations and content discovery, then this role could be the perfect fit
- Five or more years of experience iteratively developing and designing scalable and modular backends and infrastructure for SaaS products, online games, or similar systems
- Experience with recommendation systems
- Experience building scalable new software systems from scratch and integrating them within an existing, evolving architecture
- Experience with using cloud providers at scale, such as AWS or Google Cloud
- Able to work in a variety of languages and technologies, specifically backend JavaScript, Mongo, Redis
- Experience with data warehousing, ETL processes, and big data technologies (e.g., Spark, Hadoop, Kafka) for processing and analyzing large datasets
- Proficiency in database optimization for analytical queries and real-time data access to power recommendation systems
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
Desirable
- Demonstrated interest in online communities, VR, or VRChat (as a user or creator). Knowing how our platform and community works will be helpful for this role
- Experience with social networks and social data or user-generated content
- Familiarity with machine learning concepts and libraries for recommendation algorithms
- Experience working on consumer products, e-commerce, or two-sided marketplaces
What the job involves
- VRChat’s mission is to enrich the world through immersive social connection, and we’re doing this by developing a live platform that’s constantly updated and evolving, so you’ll see your work have an immediate impact on our massive global community of users
- As a Senior Engineer you’ll be joining a full-stack team of engineers as an expert in cloud application development
- Help us build the services and experiences that empower our users to build meaningful connections in the VRChat universe
- Work within a full-stack team of Engineers to develop scalable backend services and data pipelines essential for data-driven features that help people find great content, groups, and events in VRChat
- Architect, own, design, implement, and maintain systems involving REST and WebSocket APIs, data modeling, caching systems, queueing systems, cloud orchestration, content discovery, social graphs, and more
- Work with cross-functional collaborators to ensure technical excellence in service of meaningful user experiences
- Be available to occasionally jump into action to solve an outage, even at inconvenient times
Our take
Virtual Reality is one of the technologies with the highest projected potential for growth. VRChat offers a free-to-play metaverse platform where users gather as avatars in virtual spaces to socialize and hang out, just as one would in real life.
Whilst competitor Rec Room has a greater valuation, VRChat has positioned itself as the leading VR socializing-based product. It taps into a modern desire to form connections in digital spaces, with some users meeting their real-life partners in their virtual avatar form. When contemplating VR’s popularity, it cannot be denied that virtual realities enable freedom of self-expression, an attractive proposition perhaps for those who struggle with their identity and place in the real world.
The company recently announced a 30% workforce reduction, addressing overhiring during its 2021 boom. Despite these layoffs, the company remains focused on long-term growth and capital efficiency, positioning itself for continued success as VR becomes a key part of social connection.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2021
$80m
SERIES D
Sep 2019
$10m
SERIES C
Total funding: $95.2m
Company benefits
- Work remotely: Work from anywhere! They use collaboration software to stay organized and VRChat for meetings and hanging out.
- Health and wellbeing: Medical, Dental and Vision plans for those in the United States, and extended health plans in British Columbia, Canada.
- Fun: Monthly team dinners, get-togethers and once a year, they travel somewhere fun for a few days to hang out, catch up, brainstorm and have fun.
- Tools: You’ll be provided a powerful PC, high-end VR hardware, and any software you need to make you effective in your role.
- Vacations: Flexible vacation schedules that are encouraged. Most United States and Canadian holidays are observed by everyone on the team.
- Swag: Great VRChat and Developer Team Swag such as hoodies, coffee mugs, t-shirts, sun glasses and even custom 3D printed goodies.
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Graham Gaylor
(Co-Founder & CEO)Interned at SmartVault, RSM Design, Equivalent DATA, and Seismic Exchange, before spending time at ChaiONE as an iOS Developer at at Zynga as a Software Engineer.
Jesse Joudrey
(Co-Founder & CTO)Owner and CTO at Jespionage Entertainment. Began as a Software Engineer for Electronic Arts Canada before co-founding and serving as CTO for A.C.R.O.N.Y.M Games Inc.
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