Senior Software Engineer, Rec Room
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$164.8-200k
Platform for building and playing games together
Open for applications
Platform for building and playing games together
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$164.8-200k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To provide gaming lovers with amazing immersive social, multiplayer, VR, and AR experiences.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of professional interactive 3D software or games development experience (preferably using Unity engine)
- Fluency in C# with experience with memory and performance optimization in Unity
- Experience debugging and extending complex, multi-threaded systems
- Experience shipping a multiplayer game that is used cross-platform on 3D mobile, consoles, and PC screens
- Experience with building systems around animation, and real-time skinned meshes
- BONUS: Experience building artist-friendly pipelines for exporting animated assets
- BONUS: Experience shipping VR games
- BONUS: You’ve worked with a modern version of Unity (2020+) for at least a year
- BONUS: Experience with live services and rapid deployment (we ship a new version of our game every week)
What the job involves
- We are looking for a senior developer to join the new Avatars team to help us expand the capabilities of how players express themselves and craft groundbreaking avenues for creative exchange
- You’ll also be involved in the interesting memory and performance challenges that come with supporting nine different gaming platforms that span mobile devices, consoles, PCs, and all major VR devices
- We have a robust ecosystem of creators who create compelling experiences for each other, but minimal tools for how creators can make and sell digital clothing to our players
- You would be joining the team building these tools so the next generation of fashion designers and digital artists can grow their craft, find an audience, create markets, and make a living doing what they love and providing value for their Rec Room communities
- We believe this work will have a BIG impact on the in-game economy, leading to multiplying the value for creators, players, and the company
- You would be involved in architecting and building the next generation of systems for player-created avatar customization
- These systems touch creation, publishing, validation, optimization, animation, and core gameplay
- You will also be involved with work to grow the surface area of how players can customize their avatars
- Imagine player-made makeup, body art, emotes, dances, and even entirely new body forms and animations – you'll be at the forefront of defining digital avatars
- Architect new systems that will expand the capabilities of the core avatar systems, adding new forms of avatar expression, and improving the look, feel, and movement of our players
- Work closely with our first-party art team who will represent our creators and be the major design stakeholders to guide us to a delightful creation experience
- Work closely with partner development teams, including Economy, Building Blocks, Interfaces, Creator Tools, and Rec Room Studio, to deliver systems that help creators enjoy the creation of new avatar customization options, find an audience, build a market, and deliver delight to players
- Evolve existing avatar systems to improve usability, add quality-of-life features for creators, and improve memory and compute performance across all of our platforms
- Build and extend easy-to-use open-sourced Blender pipeline tools that will be shared with our creator community to help them more easily add content to our platform
- Be involved in documenting and sharing the creation process with our creator community via blogs, online docs and videos, and Discord
- Review and maintain the code for the avatar systems that exist and that you will build
Our take
Originally launched as a social hangout for virtual-reality headset users, Rec Room follows in the footsteps of gaming giants Roblox, offering a blend of gaming, social media, and user-generated content. With a teenage target market that is slightly older than Roblox, Rec Room now boasts around 29 million active users.
Like its closest rival, Rec Room also puts an emphasis on content creation, allowing users to create their own virtual rooms and games, and share them with the community. However, whilst other companies have relied on platforms like Facebook to initiate the social aspect of the gaming experience, Rec Room has independently provided a variety of social experiences for both novices and experienced gamers.
The company has recently seen both its user-base and valuation grow exponentially, with the considerable funding raised by the company cited to expand operations and business reach. Rec Room also has aims to experiment with changing avatars to add more personalization, for instance by adding feet, and is investigating further brand partnerships in apparel, music, and other categories, as well as more "game-adjacent" content.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Dec 2021
$145m
LATE VC
Mar 2021
$100m
LATE VC
Total funding: $294m
Company benefits
- Flexible Work Culture - As a workplace, we're a fun, supportive, high trust culture and offer 100% remote or hybrid opportunities out of our Seattle office. We provide work from home office equipment, support, and furniture reimbursements
- Unlimited Paid Time Off - We want you to be the best version of yourself. We offer unlimited PTO to give our team members the time they need, when they need it
- 401K - Rec Room offers a competitive 401k package with 100% employer matching up to 6%
- Health and Wellness - We offer premium benefits including: Medical, Dental, Orthodontics, Vision, Paid Parental Leave, Life Insurance, Long Term/Short Term Disability, FSA, Family Care, and EAP
- Career Growth and Mentorship - We are growing fast and we make it a priority to invest in the growth and career development of our folks through educational opportunities and mentorship
- Equity - Become a stakeholder in one of Seattle's most exciting Unicorns! We are a privately held company and offer competitive stock options
Company values
- When in doubt, build it - We take a bias towards action. When in doubt, we build it. We value doers over talkers. Playable code speaks louder than any argument.
- Ready, fire, aim, REPEAT! - We ship and iterate constantly. We learn by trying new things and listening to our community.
- It's a small world - We respect our customers. We value long term connections over making a quick buck. No exploitive monetization methods.
Company HQ
Uptown, Seattle, WA
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Leadership
Nick Fajt
(CEO & Co-Founder)They studied at Cornell before working at Microsoft HoloLens, in roles including Principal Program Manager.
Cameron Brown
(CCO & Co-Founder)They started their career at Beam Software before roles at Auran, Pandemic Studios, and EA. They also spent 4 years at Microsoft Creative Studios.
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