Web Front End Engineer, VRChat
Creators
Virtual world platform
Job no longer available
Virtual world platform
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
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
- 3+ years of relevant experience with web front-end development
- A demonstrable understanding of best practices for single-page web apps (especially with React)
- Experience delivering cross-platform and responsive websites
Desirable
- Basic or better understanding of Unity and C# (for easier integration with our tools and workflows)
- Experience creating and/or maintaining documentation sites
- Experience with ASP.NET
- Experience working on an application which uses a web front-end (like one built in Electron or Tauri)
- 2D Design experience
- Demonstrated interest in VR, online communities, or be a VRChat user and creator! Knowing how our platform and community works will be extremely helpful for this role
- Experience working on a “live” app, shipping frequent updates and responding to user feedback
What the job involves
- Work with the Creators team to improve the existing Creator Companion front-end
- Take ownership of the maintenance and evolution of our Creator documentation sites
- Liaison with our existing Web Engineering team to bring their best practices to the Creators team, and help to keep our work aligned
- Experiment with integrating web technologies into each step of the VRChat creation journey (learning, world and avatar creation, metrics and promotion, etc), possibly leading new feature integrations with other developers
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 competition certainly does exist, VRChat has positioned itself as a 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.
In 2024, the company 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
(CEO & Co-founder)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
(CTO & Co-founder)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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