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Mobile Gameplay Engineer (Staff / Principal)

Gym Class

Gym Class

California, USA · United States · Remote
Posted on Nov 5, 2024

Gym Class - by IRL Studios

Play basketball in virtual reality

Mobile Gameplay Engineer (Staff / Principal)

$165K - $240K / 0.20% - 0.40%
Location
US / CA / Remote (US; CA)
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
6+ years
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Matthew Harris
Founder

About the role

SUMMARY

Gym Class is the top rated game on the Meta Quest platform (58K ratings, 4.9 stars). Millions of players globally have downloaded GC to make friends, explore social worlds, and compete to become a star. Our community formed around social basketball, and is now rapidly expanding interests and gameplay - including football, baseball, and much more.

As the company’s first mobile Unity engineering hire, you’ll take on critical scope and lead our launch for Gym Class iOS/Android. You’ll shape our mobile roadmap, innovate on core gameplay mechanics and controls, and take a pivotal role in building our mobile squad. You’ll collaborate with our co-founders, engineers, artists, and designers across the whole company.

The company is backed by top technology and sports investors, including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Y Combinator, National Basketball Association (NBA), the Golden State Warriors, and top player-investors like Kevin Durant, Danny Green, Zaza Pachulia, Andre Iguodala, and Lonzo Ball.

Join Gym Class if you'd like to work at the frontier of social gaming, love to ship great work that has a direct impact on a product and company, enjoy fast feedback cycles from a hungry community, and want to build your career with a fast-growing startup.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • Develop Core Gameplay: Develop net new mobile-native gameplay experiences, as well as features that overlap with our VR experience.
  • Drive Mobile Roadmap: Define and drive mobile roadmap to get us moving fast for our growing mobile community. Collaborate with XFN and founding teams.
  • Own Best Practices: Establish company’s mobile best-practices for Unity development, aligning with VR builds in partnership with that squad, and shipping to Google Play and Apple Stores.
  • Manage Ongoing Content Drops: Design and improve an engine for continuous content updates on conjunction with the VR product.
  • Integrate Branded IP: Work with the team to enhance the integration of virtual branded products within the game.

QUALIFICATIONS

  • Proficiency in Unity & Mobile Game Development: Experience in creating and shipping multiplayer games in Unity. Includes shipping new games 0 to 1, from start to Store approvals (Required)
  • Knowledge of C#: Demonstrated proficiency in C# programming.
  • Gameplay Engineering Skills: Understanding of core gameplay mechanics.
  • Multiplayer Game Development: Familiarity with real-time multiplayer game development.
  • Optimization Skills: Good at game optimization to yield the highest performance.
  • Team Collaboration & Problem-Solving Abilities: Capability to communicate effectively across various disciplines and creatively address challenges.

PAY AND BENEFITS

Salary ranges may be inclusive of several career levels and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location. Additional benefits for this role include: equity; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and retirement matching.

About Gym Class - by IRL Studios

Gym Class is the most popular sports experience in virtual reality - and the best way to play basketball with people from all over the world. Make friends, break a sweat, and become a superstar.

The app is a breakout hit on Quest. With millions of downloads, it's now the #1 most played virtual reality sports game, and #1 best rated experience in the Quest Store.

The company is backed by the world's top investors, including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Y Combinator, the National Basketball Association (NBA), the Golden State Warriors, and top player-investors like Kevin Durant, Danny Green, Zaza Pachulia, Andre Iguodala, and Lonzo Ball.

Learn more here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gMJ9hLUAkAe2gv6EdlfkFOFRz-MOi-2INYvGPv-d7LI/