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Gym Class (YC W22) – Hiring First Mobile Game Engineer

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 fulltime mobile Unity engineering hire, you’ll take on a wide scope of responsibilities as we launch and grow Gym Class for 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 Create Core Vision: Collaborate with stakeholders and design teams to define a brand-new experience based on our existing IP. Develop Core Gameplay: Identify key gameplay features that can migrate from the VR experience and what new features are needed for a new platform. Own Best Practices: Establish coding best practices to develop a new experience in Unity to build and fine-tune immersive gameplay experiences. 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. Collaborate on Accessibility & User-Friendliness: Work with cross-disciplinary teams to enhance the overall player experience. QUALIFICATIONS Proficiency in Unity & Mobile Game Development: Experience in creating and shipping games in Unity (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.

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