Engineer II – Social Experience

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🕒 February 11

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VRChat Inc.

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51 - 200 employees

🎮 Gaming

🥽 AR/VR

🌍 Social Impact

💰 $80M Series D on 2021-06

Gaming • AR/VR • Social Impact

VRChat Inc. is a company that offers a social virtual reality platform where users can create, share, and explore thousands of community-created virtual worlds. Users can engage in a wide variety of interactive experiences including playing games, creating custom avatars, and participating in community events. The platform supports full-body avatars with advanced features like lip sync and eye tracking, and includes functionalities like 3-D spatialized audio for immersive interaction. It is designed to help users express themselves, connect with others globally, and build lasting friendships in a virtual environment. VRChat does not require VR equipment, making its experiences accessible to a broader audience across different devices such as Steam and Meta Quest. The platform is especially community-driven, powered by users who contribute to its ever-growing universe through their creative content using the Unity SDK.

📋 Description

• Work within a full stack team to develop, implement, and maintain new features within the VRChat client using Unity/C#. • Focus on enhancing social systems, building the UI/UX for groups, events, and other community interaction features. • Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers across the stack to translate product and design vision into functional code through informed tradeoffs and accurate estimates. • Contribute to all stages of the feature lifecycle, from initial concept and prototyping to deployment and post-launch iteration and maintenance. • Identify and address performance bottlenecks and bugs to ensure a smooth and responsive user experience across various platforms. • Participate in code reviews to maintain a high bar for code quality, architectural integrity, performance, and reliability while spreading knowledge across the team.

🎯 Requirements

• 2-5+ years of professional experience developing software, preferably in game development, social platforms, or client-side application development. • Proficiency in C# and strong working knowledge of the Unity game engine. • Experience with client-side development for social features, user interfaces, or similar consumer-facing applications. • Solid understanding of object-oriented programming principles and software design patterns. • Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git).An agile, collaborative mindset and excellent communication skills, capable of working effectively in a remote, cross-functional team environment.

🏖️ Benefits

• Work from anywhere! VRChat is a 100% remote company offering flexible working hours in combination with core hours supporting real-time collaboration • Health Benefits • 401K for US & Group RRSP for Canadian Employees • Stock Options • Generous paid holiday schedule • Unlimited/flexible vacation time • Paid parental leave benefits