Software Engineer (Developer Experience)

Nex is on a mission to help families rediscover the joy of movement. Created by parents for parents, Nex combines technology and play to deliver fun, social, and interactive experiences powered by natural body motion, encouraging kids and adults to move more, play more, and have fun together. Nex Playground, the company’s award-winning active play system, is purpose-built to get families moving year-round, with safety and privacy as core considerations in its intentional design. It is certified kidSAFE+ COPPA compliant and built to support healthy, active play for all ages and abilities.

Nex Playground features a growing library of 50+ experiences, including motion and dance games, fitness and educational experiences, and Nex Originals. Content includes collaborations with partners like Hasbro, Sesame Workshop, and NBCUniversal. Nex has been recognized by Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, TIME’s Best Inventions, and Parents’ Best Entertainment System for Families, and has earned Red Dot, IDEA, and Core77 international design awards. We encourage you to explore Have Fun and Is Motion Gaming Back?, as they offer a deeper look into our culture, values, and explain how our approach to motion gaming differs from previous generations.

Location: Hong Kong
Type: Full Time

The Role

As our Software Engineer, you will help shape the future of interactive physical gaming and realize Nex’s very bold vision: “Create the best motion games for hundreds of millions of people to play on”. We build tools and frameworks so that exciting game ideas can be brought to fruition. We also coordinate deployments so that our customers can play our experiences in home, in game shows and interactive demos at retail locations.

What You Will Bring To The Table

• Understand bottlenecks and pain points of game developers, including designers and fellow engineers.
• Build tools to streamline game developments, from brainstorming, development to deployment.
• Support external studios implement games with our technology stack.
• Participate in knowledge sharing, technical discussions and code reviews.
• Collaborate with our producer team to ensure smooth delivery of games and contents in our content pipeline.
• Help push the boundaries through active exploration, refinement of processes, and adoption of new technologies.

Must Have

• 3-5 years of software development engineering experience
• 3+ years of hands on experience with Unity.
• Proficient in coding in one of the following programming languages, including but not limited to C#, Python, Java and JavaScript.
• Experience in maintaining software libraries and writing documentations.
• Experience with tooling and automation.

Should Have

• Obsess about code and product quality.
• Have a growth mindset and always look for more.
• Excited to work in a high growth opportunity and fast paced environment.

Nice To Have

• Have experience with full stack development, from frontend to backend.
• Have experience building and shipping products using Unity.
• Love being active and healthy. Passionate about helping others do the same.
• Like playing games, having experience or feeling excited about game development.

We Offer

• Competitive compensation package.
• Flexible working hours and vacation policy.
• Product-driven culture that treasures talents and individual growth.
• Front-row seat and hands-on experience with cutting edge technologies in the evolving gaming field

Nex is located in San Jose, California, USA and Hong Kong. Learn more about us at nex.inc/who-we-are.

We encourage applications even if you don’t meet more than 50% of the requirements — we believe that experience comes in many forms!