Gym Class is a top-rated social VR game on Meta Quest with over 70,000 reviews and a 4.9-star rating​. Millions of players join to connect with friends, explore social worlds, and engage in competitive games. The community launched around basketball, and is now expanding rapidly into more categories.

The company's mission is to connect the world by simulating it. To achieve this, Gym Class recently raised over $8M from the world's top technology investors, including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Y Combinator, the National Basketball Association, the Golden State Warriors, top NBA players like Kevin Durant, Lonzo Ball, Andre Iguodala, Soma Capital, Founders Inc., Danny Green, Zaza Pachulia, Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund, Balaji Srinivasan, and more. In 2023, the company announced a licensing relationship with the NBA.

Learn more at gymclass.com or follow @gymclassvr.

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 a Gameplay Engineer focused on Game Modes, you’ll deliver new ways to play in Gym Class. Ship structured game modes for new sports, improve existing modes, and design entirely new ones based on community behavior — it’s all on the table. This role is an excellent growth opportunity for someone that’s shipped a variety of multiplayer game modes in Unity, and has an eye for architecture and modular, reusable systems. Note - **VR experience not required and this is not a prototyping role.**

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 and Ship Quality Game Modes: Implement new ways to play structured games in Gym Class across various sports and activities in a real-time multiplayer environment.
• Build Modular: You take a modular approach to building systems for scale and reusability.
• Bias Towards Shipping: Work with an eye toward quick iteration cycles to release content to a hungry player base.
• Audience Engagement: You develop for end users and utilize close feedback loops to deliver new and enhanced experiences.
• Collaborate on Accessibility & User-Friendliness: Work with cross-disciplinary teams to enhance the overall player experience.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Proficiency in Unity: Experience creating and shipping games in Unity. VR experience not required. We want to see shipped work, less so prototypes.
• Knowledge of C#: Demonstrated proficiency in C# programming.
• Systems Engineering: Experience implementing modular systems for long-term use and scalability.
• Optimization Skills: Good at game optimization to yield the highest performance; experience with mobile game development in Unity is a plus.
• 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.

• VR: Unity, Maya, Blender, Normcore.
• Backend: Node, AWS (dynamodb, lambda, api gateway, redis, etc).
• Data & Analytics: Bigquery, Mixpanel
• Web: React, Vercel, Cloudflare.
• Mobile: React Native and Unity