Nex
At Nex, we aspire to solve big problems and serve humanity. To do that, we cultivate a culture of freedom and exploration to invent truly great products. Together, we are a collective of passionate people who share a common purpose. To help humanity reconnect with the joy of movement.
To protect yourself from recruitment scams, please note that Nex communicates through official company emails ending in @nex.inc. If you receive a suspicious email or message, please do not respond and report it immediately to us.
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 company’s 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 Company’s Most Innovative Companies, TIME’s 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 Fun and Is 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.
To protect yourself from recruitment scams, please note that Nex communicates through official company emails ending in @nex.inc. If you receive a suspicious email or message, please do not respond and report it immediately to us.
Location: Hong Kong
Type: Full Time
The Role
As our Software Engineer (Connected Play) you will help families play together, even when they are apart. You will work within our game teams to implement secure, real-time multiplayer features, transforming our single-device hits into shared experiences that connect living rooms.
You will focus on the gameplay implementation of our connected features. You will solve the unique engineering challenges of synchronizing motion gaming — ensuring that a tennis swing in New York feels instant and fair to a player in London. You will help bring connected experiences to titles like Tennis Smash: Racketville, Bowling Strike and HomeRun Heroes: StarStrikers.
What You'll Do
- Implement real-time multiplayer features, ensuring physics, scores, and player movements are synchronized accurately across devices.
- Implement safety-first networking features. You will build restricted matchmaking and communication systems (e.g., non-verbal emotes, pre-set phrases) that keep our ecosystem safe for children.
- Refactor single-player codebases, adapting existing game logic to support multiplayer without breaking the original "game feel."
- Solve gameplay networking challenges, such as smoothing out jittery movement (interpolation) and optimizing bandwidth for average Internet connections.
- Collaborate with Game Artists to ensure visual effects and animations sync perfectly for every player.
- Collaborate with the Developer Experience Team, acting as the primary user of their SDKs and providing feedback to help improve the developer experience.
Must-Have
- 3+ years of professional software development experience.
- Strong proficiency in C# and the Unity ecosystem.
- Deep understanding of Networking Fundamentals. You are fluent in concepts like RPCs, state synchronization, and authority (host vs. client).
- Proficiency with Unity Network Stacks. You have hands-on experience building features with Photon Fusion, Mirror, or Netcode for GameObjects etc.
- Experience with asynchronous programming in 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 product's final polish.
- Passion for building scalable frameworks and tools that empower every discipline to deliver their best work efficiently.
- Genuine excitement for deep technical challenges, such as real-time state synchronization, scalable backend architecture, and seamless matchmaking.
Nice to Have
- Experience shipping a multiplayer game.
- 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 in San Jose, California, USA and Hong Kong. Learn more about us at nex.inc/who-we-are.
We encourage applications even if you don’t 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.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Nex
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 company’s 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 Company’s Most Innovative Companies, TIME’s 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 Fun and Is 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.
To protect yourself from recruitment scams, please note that Nex communicates through official company emails ending in @nex.inc. If you receive a suspicious email or message, please do not respond and report it immediately to us.
Location: Hong Kong
Type: 8-month contract
Reports to: Director, Developer Experience
The Role
Nex’s mission to help families rediscover the joy of movement transcends region and language. As our Contract Software Engineer (Localization), you will be at the forefront of ensuring our games and content are localized and ready for a larger audience. You will work with fellow engineers, artists, designers, and project managers to ensure all content is localized to the highest quality.
What You Will Bring to the Table
- Prepare our games for localization, upgrading relevant libraries and extracting contents.
- Improve UI layout and placement so they work with different locales.
- Contribute to the localization process, providing feedbacks or creating more automations.
Should Have
- Solid Unity skills, especially on UI maintenance.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- A strong drive for high quality and excellence.
- Excited to work in a fast paced environment.
- Ready to face new challenges and opportunities.
Nice to Have
- Prior experience in game localization.
- A passion for games and a curiosity for what makes them fun.
- Love being active and healthy. Passionate about helping others do the same.
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 in San Jose, California, USA and Hong Kong. Learn more about us at nex.inc/who-we-are.
We encourage applications even if you don’t 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.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Nex
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 company’s 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 Company’s Most Innovative Companies, TIME’s 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 Fun and Is 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.
To protect yourself from recruitment scams, please note that Nex communicates through official company emails ending in @nex.inc. If you receive a suspicious email or message, please do not respond and report it immediately to us.
About The Team
We are a passionate team of highly skilled engineers and top-tier designers based in Hong Kong. We develop diverse games for the Nex Playground, covering genres like arcade, action, rhythm, puzzle, and educational. Our hit titles include Starri, Bluey, Mirrorama, Cookie Monster, and Tumbobots, Doodle Heads, Elmo Says, etc.
This is a place to collaborate with passionate developers, unleash your creativity, and deepen your engineering skills. You will participate in 1-3 game projects every year, as a game engineer who works on both engineering and product design.
What You Will Do
- Software Engineering: Build game architecture, UI/UX, gameplay logic, motion control algorithms, and internal tools.
- Product Design: Participate in game design, rapid prototyping, and iterate based on playtesting feedback.
- Tech Research: Explore new technologies and share knowledge with the team to drive collective growth.
- Leadership: (For Senior level) Lead project development, collaborate across disciplines, make key technical decisions, and track progress.
Who We Are Looking For
- Growth Mindset: Humble and eager to learn. Active in side projects (open-source softwares, indie games etc.) is a plus.
- Innovation: Creative and loves exploring fresh ideas.
- Audience Focus: Interested in creating family-friendly games for kids, parents, and seniors. (Being a parent is a plus!)
- Passion for Quality: You care deeply about details and aim for world-class quality.
- Engineering Best Practices: You write clean, maintainable, and robust code.
- Tech-Savvy: Broad interest in technology (App dev, Web, Databases, UI/UX, Animation).
- Optimization: Skilled in optimizing memory, GPU, CPU and shader usage.
- Unity Expertise: Familiarity with Unity. Experience shipping high-quality games is a bonus.
- Troubleshooting: Able to fix compilation and runtime errors effectively.
- Prototyping: Able to build rapid prototypes in Unity.
- Tool Creation: Experience building Unity tools (e.g., level editors, data visualizers).
- Communication: Clear expression of technical details. Experience teaching or mentoring others is a plus.
- Leadership: (For Senior level) Proven ability to lead a team to deliver high-quality results.
What We Offer
- Strong Team: Work with a high-performance team where we learn and grow together.
- Growth: Learn from experienced colleagues in engineering, design, and management.
- Compensation: Competitive compensation package.
- Flexibility: Flexible working hours and location, as long as efficiency is ensured.
- Opportunity: Join a rapidly growing company in a new market sector with exponential potential.
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 in San Jose, California, USA and Hong Kong. Learn more about us at nex.inc/who-we-are.
We encourage applications even if you don’t 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.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Nex
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 company’s 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 Company’s Most Innovative Companies, TIME’s 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 Fun and Is 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.
To protect yourself from recruitment scams, please note that Nex communicates through official company emails ending in @nex.inc. If you receive a suspicious email or message, please do not respond and report it immediately to us.
Location: Hong Kong
Type: Part Time
Hours: Minimum commitment of 2 - 3 days per week in the office. Availability to work in the office on Friday and Saturday is required.
Reports to: Content Team Associate
The Role
What You'll Do
- Arrange and conduct playtesting sessions for Nex’s upcoming game releases.
- Collaborate with game development teams to understand their testing requirements.
- Recruit playtesters aged 4-12 through various channels, including drafting emails and conducting on-site visits.
- Observe gameplay and create clear, concise notes for the game development teams to reference.
- Assist with additional operational tasks as needed by the team.
Requirements
- Enjoy working with children.
- Strong communication skills.
- Passion for playing games.
- Basic understanding of technology for setup purposes.
- This position is open to students currently enrolled in school or university.
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 in San Jose, California, USA and Hong Kong. Learn more about us at nex.inc/who-we-are.
We encourage applications even if you don’t 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.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Nex
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 company’s 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 Company’s Most Innovative Companies, TIME’s 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 Fun and Is 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.
To protect yourself from recruitment scams, please note that Nex communicates through official company emails ending in @nex.inc. If you receive a suspicious email or message, please do not respond and report it immediately to us.
Location: Hong Kong
Type: Full Time
The Role
As our Software Engineer (Game Development), you will help shape the future of interactive physical gaming and realize Nex's very bold vision: "Create the best motion games for hundreds of millions of people to play on".
You will be a key contributor to our global content infrastructure, architecting the core systems, gameplay features, and presentation layers that allow our games to reach international audiences. You will work across the Unity stack—from implementing engaging gameplay mechanics to building scalable, performant, and "pixel-perfect" UI domains.
You will partner closely with Game Designers, UI Artists, and other engineers to deliver world-class experiences across our growing library of titles, such as GoKeeper, Tennis Smash: Racketville, HomeRun Heroes: StarStrikers, Bowling Strike, and Basketball Knockout.
What You'll Do
- Architect and implement foundational game systems, core gameplay mechanics, and robust UI infrastructures that power our expanding library of games.
- Partner with Game and UI Designers to translate concepts (from game design documents to Figma prototypes) into highly functional, polished Unity implementations.
- Draft technical strategies for modernizing our existing live titles, refactoring legacy systems to support new features and internationalization.
- Build and maintain shared component libraries and core frameworks, creating performant and responsive systems that work seamlessly across different games.
- Develop custom tools and workflows within the Unity Editor to streamline the process for designers, content creators, and translators, removing friction from the development loop.
- Drive performance optimization across the game client, managing memory usage, draw calls, and asset loading to ensure high performance on all target devices.
- Implement polished animations, micro-interactions, and game logic that make the experience feel alive, responsive, and delightful to the player.
- 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.
- Solid understanding of Unity engine features, including gameplay scripting, UI systems (uGUI or UI Toolkit), and physics/rendering basics.
- Familiarity with asset management strategies (Addressables or Asset Bundles).
- Experience with asynchronous programming in 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 product's final polish.
- Experience implementing architectural patterns (MVVM, MVC, MVP, or ECS) to separate game logic from presentation.
- Passion for building scalable frameworks and tools that empower every discipline to deliver their best work efficiently.
- Genuine excitement for deep technical challenges, such as optimizing performance, managing complex state logic, or handling internationalization pipelines.
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 in San Jose, California, USA and Hong Kong. Learn more about us at nex.inc/who-we-are.
We encourage applications even if you don’t 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.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Nex
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 company’s 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 Company’s Most Innovative Companies, TIME’s 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 Fun and Is 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.
To protect yourself from recruitment scams, please note that Nex communicates through official company emails ending in @nex.inc. If you receive a suspicious email or message, please do not respond and report it immediately to us.
Location: San Jose, California or Hybrid
Annual salary: USD 140,000 to USD 180,000
Type: Full-time
Reports to: Head of Studio (Party)
The Role
We're looking for a Software Engineer to help bring our product ideas to life within a fast-moving game cell focused on gamifying fitness and developing healthy habits for the whole family. You'll work closely with designers and engineers to prototype, iterate, and refine our product from concept to production.
This role is for someone who thrives in a rapid development environment, learns quickly, and brings in the right tools and technologies to build high-quality experiences. You should be excited about the challenge of making exercise engaging through game systems like progression, rewards, and live-ops while integrating with a motion-based platform.
You’ll be product and user minded, confident in sharing your perspective to shape the best possible experience for our growing community. If you love building polished, interactive experiences from the ground up, this role is for you.
What You'll Do
- Ramp up quickly on existing codebases and implement scalable content delivery to keep the catalog fresh.
- Develop progression systems, live-ops features, and other gameplay elements that enhance motivation and engagement.
- Optimize and polish user experiences to ensure smooth, production-quality gameplay.
- Evaluate and adopt new technologies to improve development speed and product quality.
- Work cross-functionally with designers, product teams, and other engineers to deliver a seamless experience.
What You Bring
- 3+ years of game development or interactive software engineering experience.
- Experience building user-facing products from scratch and shipping high-quality experiences.
- Strong programming skills, preferably with Unity (C#) or similar game engines.
- Ability to quickly learn and integrate new technologies into development pipelines.
- Experience optimising performance and artifact size for mobile (Android) platforms.
- A product-minded approach—you think about the user experience, not just the code.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
- Bonus: Experience with fitness apps, or at-home fitness solutions. Experience delivering remote content updates using Unity Asset bundles.
If you're passionate about blending gaming and fitness to build experiences that make healthy habits fun, we’d love to hear from you!
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 in San Jose, California, USA and Hong Kong. Learn more about us at nex.inc/who-we-are.
We encourage applications even if you don’t 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.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Nex
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 company’s 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 Company’s Most Innovative Companies, TIME’s 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 Fun and Is 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.
To protect yourself from recruitment scams, please note that Nex communicates through official company emails ending in @nex.inc. If you receive a suspicious email or message, please do not respond and report it immediately to us.
Location: San Jose, California (Hybrid)
Annual salary: USD 120,000 to USD 170,000
Type: Full-time
Reports to: Director, Developer Experience
The Role
As our Software Engineer, you will help shape the future of interactive physical gaming and realize Nex’s very bold vision: “Create the best motion games for hundreds of millions of people to play on”. In addition to developing games in house, we also work with external partners to create exciting contents and experiences on Nex Playground. Our support engineers help assist the whole content creation process, ensuring games are delivered in high quality to our customers.
What You'll Do
- Support external studios in implementing games with our technology stack.
- Collaborate with our producer team to ensure smooth delivery of games and content in our pipeline.
- Involve in pre-production of new games, including ideation, prototyping and motion mechanics exploration.
- Identify bottlenecks and pain points for game developers, including designers and engineers.
- Build tools or refine processes to streamline game development, from ideation to deployment.
Must Have
- Hands-on experience with Unity.
- 3–5 years of software development experience.
- Experience maintaining software libraries and / or writing documentation.
- Experience with tooling and automation.
Should Have
- An obsession with code and product quality.
- A growth mindset, always looking for more.
- Excitement about working in a high-growth, fast-paced environment.
Nice to Have
- Experience building and shipping products using Unity.
- 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 in San Jose, California, USA and Hong Kong. Learn more about us at nex.inc/who-we-are.
We encourage applications even if you don’t 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.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Nex
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 company’s 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 Company’s Most Innovative Companies, TIME’s 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 Fun and Is 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.
To protect yourself from recruitment scams, please note that Nex communicates through official company emails ending in @nex.inc. If you receive a suspicious email or message, please do not respond and report it immediately to us.
Location: Hong Kong
Type: Full Time
The Role
As our Software Engineer, Developer Experience, you will help shape the future of interactive physical gaming and realize Nex’s very bold vision: “Create the best motion games for hundreds of millions of people to play on”. We build tools and frameworks so that exciting game ideas can be brought to fruition. We also coordinate deployments so that our customers can play our experiences in home, in game shows and interactive demos at retail locations.
What You'll Do
- Understand bottlenecks and pain points of game developers, including designers and fellow engineers.
- Build tools to streamline game developments, from brainstorming, development to deployment.
- Support external studios implement games with our technology stack.
- Collaborate with our producer team to ensure smooth delivery of games and contents in our content pipeline.
- Help push the boundaries through active exploration, refinement of processes, and adoption of new technologies.
- Participate in knowledge sharing, technical discussions and code reviews.
Must Have
- 3–5 years of software development experience.
- Proficiency in one or more of the following: C#, Kotlin, Python, or JavaScript.
- Experience maintaining software libraries and / or writing documentation.
- Experience with tooling and automation.
Should Have
- An obsession with code and product quality.
- A growth mindset, always looking for more.
- Excitement about working in a high-growth, fast-paced environment.
Nice to Have
- 2+ years of hands-on experience with Unity.
- Experience with full-stack development, from frontend to backend.
- Experience building and shipping products using Unity.
- 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 in San Jose, California, USA and Hong Kong. Learn more about us at nex.inc/who-we-are.
We encourage applications even if you don’t 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.
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