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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 companys 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 Companys Most Innovative Companies TIMEs 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 FunandIs 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
Reports to: Sr. Director Product & Innovation
The Team
We are one of the game cells within Nex Team creating active living room games and interactive experiences for the Nex Playground where your body is the controller. Our mission is to build innovative and healthy games for all ages - from kids (4 -10) to parents and grandparents.
We strive to create experiences that are as fun as or even better than those found on family-oriented consoles like the Nintendo Switch Wii and Xbox Kinect.
Youll join a growing team of passionate engineers designers and artists. As a Software Engineer of one of the game cells your work will contribute to building an elite game studio.
In this role youll be part of a supportive and collaborative environment where your creativity is encouraged and youre trusted and empowered to contribute learn and lead.
What Youll Do
- Innovation: Come up with creative ideas and turn them into engaging experience that people love and appreciate.
- Prototype & Test: Rapidly prototype new game mechanics and iterate based on valuable playtest feedback.
- Develop & Implement: Build polish and maintain game features using Unity from concept to release.
- Plan & Execute: Help tracking tasks & issues estimate time and make plans
- Code with Quality: Write clean organized robust code that is easy to maintain.
- Solve Problems: Learn to tackle engineering challenges and solve product design problems as well.
Who Were Looking For
Were looking for a motivated and creative developer who is passionate about building great games and growing with our team.
You are someone who:
- Is a fast and curious learner who loves to research and dive deep into new topics.
- Loves designing games levels and user experiences
- Has a keen eye for detail and takes pride in creating polished work.
- Is a clear communicator who enjoys sharing ideas and collaborating with a team.
- Embraces tough engineering challenges and loves learning new techs.
- Bonus: love to build products for diverse audience including kids parents and elderly.
Your skills should include:
- 3 years of game development or software engineering experiences.
- Unity: proficiency with the engine including C# editor features object lifecycle physics animation UI rendering pipeline particle system custom editor tools shader etc.
- General Engineering Ability: fast code reading OOP & design patterns Git command-line tools memory / performance profiling and optimization operation system basic frontend & backend knowledge and good habit of reading tech-related articles.
- Language: proficient Cantonese and good English.
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 inSan Jose California USAandHongKong. Learn more about us at encourage applications even if you dont meet more than 50% of the requirements we believe that experience comes in many forms!
Employment Type
Full Time
