Senior / Staff Backend Engineer (API) – Economy

• Play a foundational role in architecting and evolving the systems that power how creators earn and how users transact across VRChat globally. • Build high-integrity backend infrastructure supporting subscriptions, digital ownership, creator monetisation, payment processing, and economic analytics at global scale. • Work primarily with Node.js and TypeScript on financial-grade systems where correctness, auditability, reliability, and compliance are non-negotiable.

• Bring 5+ years of experience in backend engineering for SaaS, fintech, marketplaces, or online platforms. • Hold deep proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript. • Demonstrate strong experience with relational and non-relational databases including MySQL, MongoDB, and Redis. • Have experience managing message queues, caching strategies, and WebSocket systems. • Bring proven experience building and maintaining external integrations with payment vendors and fintech platforms. • Show strong understanding of profiling, optimisation trade-offs, and observability. • Have experience operating under PCI DSS, GDPR, and PII requirements. • Bring experience building subscription engines, marketplaces, accounting systems, or invoicing workflows. • Demonstrate familiarity with AWS, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code. • Navigate ambiguity comfortably across experimental and high-certainty requirements.

• Have experience with event-driven or high-throughput transactional systems. • Bring experience integrating with Steam, Oculus, Apple, or Google Play payment systems. • Show experience leading large-scale refactors or architectural migrations. • Have experience building internal operational tooling or creator-facing systems. • Hold full-stack development experience. • Demonstrate active participation in creator economies or VRChat itself. • Bring credible experience designing and operating financial or high-integrity transactional systems at scale for Staff-level consideration.

• Design and implement scalable backend services in Node.js and TypeScript with transactional integrity in high-volume economic systems. • Model digital ownership, entitlements, wallets, and payouts across first-party and creator-driven content. • Drive refactors that improve maintainability and long-term platform evolution. • Participate in architectural discussions shaping the future of VRChat's economy stack. • Design reliable economic event representations and ensure traceability across payment transactions and reporting systems. • Enable subscription and marketplace analytics and support experimentation and feature iteration. • Maintain reconciliation accuracy and reporting integrity and contribute to fraud detection and prevention systems. • Own services from development through deployment and monitoring, improving CI/CD reliability and release safety. • Strengthen observability, monitoring, and incident response practices within containerised environments. • Partner cross-functionally with Product, Design, Data, Finance, Trust and Safety, Infrastructure, and peer engineering teams. • Mentor engineers and elevate engineering standards across the team.

• Work from anywhere as part of a 100% remote company with flexible working hours and core collaboration overlap. • Receive health benefits and stock options. • Access 401K for US employees or Group RRSP for Canadian employees. • Take unlimited and flexible vacation time. • Receive paid parental leave. • Enjoy a generous paid holiday schedule. • Build the economic foundation of a thriving global creator ecosystem backed by $100M from Makers Fund, Anthos Capital, and HTC.

VRChat offers a first-of-its-kind platform providing an endless collection of social VR experiences and giving the power of creation to its robust community. With over 250,000 worlds and growing, VRChat's vision is to allow users to bring their imaginations to life and help shape the metaverse on any device. The company has raised $100M with the support of investors including Makers Fund, Anthos Capital, and HTC.