Senior/Staff Backend Engineer – API, Economy

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🕒 February 24

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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VRChat Inc.

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

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

• Design and implement scalable backend services in Node.js and TypeScript • Ensure transactional integrity in high-volume economic systems • Model digital ownership, entitlements, wallets, and payouts • Build and evolve systems supporting both first-party and creator-driven content • Drive refactors that improve maintainability and long-term platform evolution • Participate in architectural discussions shaping the future of VRChat’s economy stack • Design reliable economic event representations • Ensure traceability across payment transactions and reporting systems • Enable subscription and marketplace analytics • Support experimentation and feature iteration • Maintain reconciliation accuracy and reporting integrity • Contribute to fraud detection and prevention systems • Own services from development through deployment and monitoring • Improve CI/CD reliability and release safety • Work within containerized environments (Docker) • Contribute to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) • Strengthen observability, monitoring, and incident response practices • Occasionally jump in to resolve critical production issues

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in backend engineering for SaaS, fintech, marketplaces, or online platforms • Deep proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript • Strong experience with relational and non-relational databases (MySQL, MongoDB, Redis) • Experience managing message queues, caching strategies, and WebSocket systems • Proven experience building and maintaining external integrations (payment vendors, fintech platforms) • Strong understanding of profiling, optimization tradeoffs, and observability • Experience operating under PCI DSS, GDPR, and PII requirements • Experience building subscription engines, marketplaces, accounting systems, or invoicing workflows • Familiarity with AWS, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code • Comfortable navigating ambiguity across experimental and high-certainty requirements • Experience working in complex, evolving codebases

🏖️ Benefits

• Work from anywhere — VRChat is a 100% remote company • Flexible working hours with core collaboration overlap • Health benefits • 401(k) for US employees & Group RRSP for Canadian employees • Stock options • Generous paid holiday schedule • Unlimited/flexible vacation time • Paid parental leave