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Gym Class · 3 months ago

Design Engineer (Senior / Staff / Principal)

positionUnited States
timeFull-time
remoteRemote
senioritySenior Level
money$170K/yr - $240K/yr
date3+ years exp

Gym Class is a top rated social game on Meta Quest, and they are seeking a founding Design Engineer to drive the development of their upcoming mobile web app and web surfaces inside their flagship social VR experience. The role involves shipping end-to-end features, driving the web roadmap, and building a design system while ensuring high performance and quality standards.

BasketballGamingVirtual Reality

Responsibilities

Ship end-to-end features: Turn rough ideas and user feedback into polished flows - wireframes → interactive Figma → production React/Node
Drive the web roadmap: Propose, scope, and deliver improvements across mobile and VR platforms, social flows, profiles, discovery, chat and AI, spectating - balancing velocity and quality
Build a design system: Create reusable components and interaction patterns; advocate consistency across mobile web and in-VR web surfaces
Hit performance budgets: Optimize for fast loads and 60fps interactions on mobile and VR
Tighten quality loops: Instrument analytics, run lightweight usability tests, and iterate quickly based on real player behavior

Qualification

ReactFigmaTypeScriptJavaScriptHTMLCSSPerformance optimizationEntrepreneurial mindsetIterative shippingCommunication

Required

3–6+ years building consumer web products
Strong Figma skills and a shipped portfolio of design + code work
Expert in React, TypeScript/JavaScript, HTML, CSS (layouts, animations, responsive design)
You care about spacing, typography, and micro-interactions
Comfortable profiling, code-splitting, image/asset strategy, caching/CDN, and keeping bundles lean
You scope well, communicate clearly, and ship iteratively without sacrificing polish
High-ownership, comfortable with ambiguity

Benefits

Equity
Medical, dental, and vision benefits
401k retirement plan with matching

Company

Gym Class

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Gym Class is a virtual reality basketball app on meta quest app lab.
dateFounded in 2021
location
Los Angeles, California, USA
people-size11-50 employees
web-link
https://gymclassvr.com/

Funding

Current Stage
Early Stage
Total Funding
$8M
Key Investors
Andreessen Horowitz
2022-08-02Seed· $8M

Leadership Team

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Justin Hubert
Co-founder
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