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 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 Software Engineer at Nex you will design and build the scalable backbone of our global platform powering ecommerce 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 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 backend services for ecommerce 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 Python and Go).
• Partner with business product and operations stakeholders to deliver customerobsessed 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 highgrowth 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 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!

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.