Game Engineer

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Key Responsibilities

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.

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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.

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.

Responsibilities

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  • 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.
  • 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

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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.

What We Offer

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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

Listing Details

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April 3, 2026
Last seen
April 26, 2026

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Trust Level
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Nex is a motion-based entertainment company that transforms activity into play through fun and social experiences, using AI and computer vision to power games on devices people already have.

Employees
125
Founded
2017
Domain
nex.inc
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