Webaverse is hiring a

Web3 Game Engineer

Who We Are

We're building a virtual world from open source and p2p technology that players create and own. Everything in the world is an NFT. There's an inventory system, so you can bring your items and favorite memes to share with your friends. Multiplayer is built with WebRTC and y.js (CRDTs). https://webaverse.com and our open alpha: https://app.webaverse.com

Why You Should Work with Us

We're a young company, but we've accomplished a lot in that short time. What we've done wouldn't have been possible without passionate people, dedicated to our vision of an open and democratic metaverse. If you too would like to get in on the ground floor of the next major Internet revolution, if you too have the passion, the singular obsession to see the 3D web realized in all its glory, then we want to hear from you.

You’ll Be Responsible for...

- Design, implementation, and testing of core gameplay features end-to-end

You’re a Good Fit if...

You are/have:

• Strong graphics programming skills (OpenGL, WebGL/WebGPU, THREE.js, GLSL/WGSL)
• Expert in writing efficient and well-abstracted render loop state engines
• Understanding of Entity-Component architectures
• Strong in 3D math, including matrices, vectors, quaternions, trigonomery, and reference frames
• Familiar with material systems, graphics resource management, render loops, asynchronous I/O events, garbage collection
• Familiar with skeletal + baked animation systems, skinning, morphs
• Familiar with multi-pass rendering architectures, including post-processing
• Familiar with render pipeline optimization techniques: instancing, atlasing, LOD, culling
• Experience with physics engine principles (baking, raycasting, collisions, simulation, restitution)
• Experience with efficient and beautiful shader effects, strong understanding of raster pipelines
• Experience working with C++/Rust/WebAssembly
• Experience in multithreaded development and debugging (synchronization primitives, memory management, sanitizers, profiling tools)
• Bonus: experience with networking code (WebSockets, voice, entity-component sync, bone transfers)
• Highly sensitive to missed frames
• 4 years experience as a gamer
• Good gaming PC

Our Process

• Application review
• Interviews via Voice/Video Call or Discord Chat
• Coding challenge - We will provide a task from our open issues - Any solution we use will be paid for
• Contract negotiations
• Total expected time to hire: A few days to a couple weeks

Webaverse focuses on Video Games, Web Development, and Virtual Reality. Their company has offices in Remote. They have a small team that's between 11-50 employees. To date, Webaverse has raised $2M of funding; their latest round was closed on January 2021 at a valuation of $20M.

You can view their website at https://www.webaverse.com or find them on Twitter.

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