Software Engineer — Game Frontend

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 ourSoftware Engineer Game Frontend you will help shape the future of interactive physical gaming and realize Nexs very bold vision: Create the best motion games for hundreds of millions of people to play on.

You will be a key architect for our global content infrastructure architecting the systems that allow our games to reach international audiences. You will own the UI domain of our games moving beyond simple implementation to build scalable performant and pixel-perfect presentation layers inside the Unity engine.

You will partner closely with UI Designers and Artists (bridging the gap between Figma concepts and C# implementation) to deliver world-class experiences across our growing library of titles such asGoKeeper Tennis Smash: Racketville HomeRun Heroes: StarStrikers Bowling Strike and Basketball Knockout.

What Youll Do

• Architect the foundational UI and Localization systems that will power our entire library of games ensuring code reusability and architectural consistency.
• Partner with UI Designers to translate Figma concepts into functional pixel-perfect Unity implementations ensuring the final product matches the creative vision.
• Draft technical strategy for modernizing our existing live titles refactoring legacy systems to support our new internationalization infrastructure.
• Build and maintain a shared UI component library creating performant and responsive components that work seamlessly across different games.
• Design the end-to-end localization pipeline solving complex internationalization challenges to support new languages at scale.
• Develop custom tools and workflows within the Unity Editor to streamline the process for designers content creators translators removing friction from the development loop.
• Drive performance optimization for the UI domain managing draw calls batching and memory usage to ensure high performance on all target devices.
• Implement polished animations and micro-interactions that make the interface feel alive responsive and delightful to the user.
• Participate in code reviews and technical discussions to raise the bar for code quality and maintainability across the team.

Must Have

• 3 years of professional software development experience.
• Strong proficiency in C# and the Unity ecosystem.
• Deep understanding of Unity frontend development (uGUI or UI Toolkit).
• Familiar withasset managementstrategies (Addressables or Asset Bundles)
• Experience withasynchronous programmingin Unity (UniTask async/await or coroutines).
• Ability to write clean maintainable and performant code.

Should Have

• A growth mindset and the energy to thrive in a fast-paced high-growth environment.
• An obsession with code quality and a sense of personal ownership over the products final polish.
• Experience implementing UI architectural patterns (MVVM MVC or MVP) to separate logic from presentation.
• Passion for building scalable frameworks and tools that empowerevery disciplineto deliver their best work efficiently.
• Genuine excitement for deep technical challenges such as optimizing UI performance managing draw calls or handling complex text rendering.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Localization pipelines (handling string keys pluralization rules or tools like Crowdin/I2).
• A love for staying active and healthy with a passion for helping others do the same.
• An interest in playing games and excitement 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 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!