Software Engineer, Platform Services

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 a Software Engineer at Nex, you will design and build the scalable backbone of our global platform powering e‑commerce, subscriptions, user management, device pairing, content delivery, support systems, analytics, and system updates. Your work will serve many millions of connected devices and the operating systems behind them, shaping daily user experiences worldwide. You will partner with business, product, and operation teams to deliver backend infrastructure that is simple, robust, observable, and reliable at scale.

The Mindset

You care deeply about elegant, scalable systems. You thrive in fast‑paced, product‑driven environments and see great backend engineering as the intersection of craft, simplification, and impact. You enjoy solving problems across performance, security, reliability, and maintainability. You are customer‑obsessed and biased for action. You move quickly while staying precise, careful, and risk‑aware.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and operate backend services for e‑commerce, subscriptions, accounts, device activation, content delivery, and system updates.
• Build services that are reliable and observable, with monitoring, logging, and alerting, and use cloud and container technology for deployment and service management.
• Implement robust APIs and backend logic using contemporary languages and runtimes (primarily Node.js, Python, and Go).
• Partner with business, product, and operations stakeholders to deliver customer‑obsessed solutions.

Must Have

• 2+ years building backend services for production systems.
• Experience running services in production using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with databases such as RDBMS and NoSQL.
• Familiar with data consistency principles, safe operation design, and concurrency control.
• Passion for deep technical challenges and continuous improvement.
• Proficiency in English communication.

Nice To Have

• Experience with authentication patterns including OAuth.
• Experience with message queues or microservices architectures.
• Familiarity with messaging tools such as Apache Kafka, SQS, or Pub/Sub.
• Knowledge of privacy and security best practices.
• Experience in startups or high‑growth environments.

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!

Nex is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. This policy applies to all individuals at every stage of the employment relationship, including all current and prospective employees, and covers all employment decisions including recruitment, hiring, job assignment, promotion, compensation, benefits, training, discipline and termination.

We are committed to providing a workplace free from discrimination and harassment and to fostering an inclusive environment for all employees.