Software Engineer (Fitness Content)
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.
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.