Engineer - Social Experience (Mid-Staff)

• Join the Social Experience team as a frontend-focused engineer, building and refining the client-side features that enhance how VRChat users connect, interact, and discover content and communities together. • Work within Unity and C# to build high-quality, performant, and engaging user interfaces and systems for social features including groups, events, and other interaction surfaces. • Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, data scientists, and engineers across the stack to translate product and design vision into functional code through informed trade-offs. • Contribute to all stages of the feature lifecycle — from initial concept and prototyping through to deployment, post-launch iteration, and maintenance. • Work fully remotely from anywhere in the world with flexible hours and core collaboration hours.

• Bring a track record of shipping consumer-facing client features end-to-end, preferably in social gaming, platforms, or client-side application development. • Bring proficiency in C# and strong working knowledge of Unity and uGUI. • Bring experience with client-side development for social features, user interfaces, or similar consumer-facing applications. • Bring experience optimising Unity projects for performance across various hardware including standalone VR devices. • Bring experience with CI/CD systems, A/B testing, AI tooling, and automated testing, plus a solid understanding of object-oriented programming principles and software design patterns.

• Bring comfort working full stack across the client and backend, particularly with Node.js. • Bring familiarity with web technologies, particularly React or Express. • Bring familiarity with API integration using REST/JSON and WebSockets. • Bring experience developing native applications for iOS in Swift or Android in Kotlin. • Bring experience facilitating team discussions, working agreements, and team process improvements.

• Work within a full-stack team to discover, develop, and maintain social features within the VRChat client using Unity and C#. • Drive user growth by enhancing social systems and building UI/UX for groups, events, and other social interaction features. • 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. • Advocate for the adoption of modern technologies and engineering practices, and help shape how the team works toward collaborative, iterative, outcome-focused delivery.

• Work fully remotely from anywhere in the world with flexible hours and core collaboration hours — VRChat is a 100% remote company. • Receive stock options, unlimited and flexible vacation, and a generous paid holiday schedule. • Access paid parental leave benefits and health benefits for US and Canadian employees. • Join a diverse, creative, and collaborative team building one of the world's most ambitious social VR platforms.

VRChat is a first-of-its-kind social VR platform with over 250,000 worlds and growing, giving users and creators the power to bring their imaginations to life on any device. Backed by Makers Fund, Anthos Capital, and HTC with around $100M raised to date, VRChat is shaping the future of the metaverse.