Director Senior Director, Platform Software Engineering

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.

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Location: Hong Kong
Report to: VP Platform

The Role

As Director / Senior Director of Platform Software Engineering you will own the software platform that powers every Nex Playground in the world from the moment a family unboxes the device through years of daily play. You will lead endtoend across PlayOS (our Androidbased device OS) and cloud services: OS that gives hardware life OTA updates that reach a growing global fleet the Play Pass subscription engine and the compliance infrastructure that lets us launch in new countries with confidence. You will drive architectural direction set engineering standards and grow a highperforming team. Youll stay handson when it counts most and know when to let your leaders lead.

The Mindset

Firstprinciples customerobsessed decisive. Perseveres to the highest standards and challenges assumptions. Resilient through production incidents coachable at every level. Grows engineers into owners and leaders. Empathetic leads with trust gives tough feedback builds a culture of accountability. Executes with discipline insists on engineering excellence to deliver reliable secure outcomes at scale.

Success Looks Like

Millions of Playgrounds worldwide reliably updated over the air. PlayOS that delights families from first unbox through years of daily play across every market Nex enters. Standards that let the team ship fast with confidence. Strong leaders in your team across device and cloud who own outcomes independently. The platform behind every game every feature every market launch.

Key Responsibilities

Platform & Team Leadership

• Set platform software strategy in partnership with Product Design and company leadership
• Build a highperforming engineering team raise the engineering bar grow engineers into owners and develop strong leaders
• Build Nexs inhouse platform engineering capability and DevOps practices evolving from external partnerships to Nexled development

PlayOS Delivery

• Implement OS platform roadmap balancing new capabilities with system health performance security and compliance
• Guide the hardest tradeoffs across architecture compatibility and hardware integration
• Drive international compliance childrens privacy (GDPR COPPA) and localization for every new territory

Cloud & Services

• Establish standards across cloud services OTA pipelines and the Play Pass subscription platform
• Ensure reliability security privacy and operational excellence as the fleet scales globally
• Set high standards for observability incident response and continuous improvement

Must Have

• Experience leading teams delivering operating systems and cloud services in production at scale
• Proven people leadership: hires and builds high-performing teams develops managers and coaches individuals through clear feedback growth plans and high standards
• Strong technical judgment across device software and cloud systems handson when it matters
• Track record raising the bar on quality reliability security privacy and compliance
• Significant flexibility working across global timezones

Nice to Have

• Experience with subscription or commerce platforms
• Familiarity with reliability practices (SLOs observability incident response)
• Experience with consumer privacy regulations (GDPR COPPA or equivalent) in a shipped product
• Experience with connected devices and fleets
• Experience building products for kids or families
• Experience with hardwaresoftware integration and lifecycle support

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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!

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We are committed to providing a workplace free from discrimination and harassment and to fostering an inclusive environment for all employees.