Senior Software Engineer, Platform Services
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30+ days ago
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1 Vacancy
Job Summary
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
The Role
As a Senior Software Engineer at Nex you will architect and build the scalable backbone of our global platform powering ecommerce subscriptions user management device pairing content delivery recommendations support systems analytics and system updates. Your work will serve millions of connected devices and the operating systems behind them shaping daily user experiences worldwide. You will partner with business product and operations as well as a missionaligned external engineering team 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 fastpaced productdriven 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 customerobsessed and biased for action. You move quickly while staying precise careful and riskaware.
What Youll Do
- Design build and operate scalable backend services for ecommerce subscriptions accounts device activation content delivery recommendations support analytics and system updates.
- Build services that are reliable faulttolerant and highly observable with strong monitoring logging and alerting.
- Develop robust APIs and backend logic (C#) and with occasional Python.
- Implement and optimize authentication flows including OAuth and device authentication.
- Use Docker and Kubernetes for deployment scaling and service management.
- Architect faulttolerant systems using queues serviceoriented patterns and messagedriven workflows.
- Guide and collaborate with a missionaligned external engineering team.
- Work closely with business product and operations to deliver customerobsessed solutions.
Must Have
- 5 years building backend services for hightraffic products.
- Strong expertise (C#) and Python.
- Proven experience running highly observable services in production using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with distributed systems big data workflows and database optimization across NoSQL and PostgreSQL.
- Deep understanding of ACID idempotency message delivery guarantees and highperformance concurrent access.
- Passion for deep technical challenges and raising the engineering bar.
- Ability to lead troubleshooting and postmortems during production incidents.
- Ability to work effectively with global teams across time zones.
- Proficiency in English communication.
Nice To Have
- Experience with authentication patterns including OAuth and device flows.
- Experience building faulttolerant systems using queues and servicebased or microservices architectures.
- Expertise with realtime data streams and messaging tools such as Apache Kafka SQS or Pub/Sub.
- Familiarity with Firebase and Supabase.
- Knowledge of privacy compliance and information security best practices.
- Experience in startups highgrowth environments or consumer product companies.
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!
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Spring
- .NET
- C/C++
- Go
- React
- OOP
- C#
- AWS
- Data Structures
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Nex is a motion entertainment company that is transforming sedentary activity into active play. We create new experiences that naturally get you moving.
