Webaverse is hiring a

Web3 Multiplayer Network 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...

Designing and implementing our Multiplayer system.

You’re a Good Fit if...

You are/have:

• Expert in frontend and backend Javascript/Typescript (Node.js)
• Expert in Javscript networking apis (HTTPS, WebSockets, WebRTC) and stream processing
• Strong server-side debugging ability (debuggers, network tools, DNS, routing, load balancing, performance tracing, event logging)
• Experience with soft realtime binary messaging in a game engine (events, pub-sub, audio streams, CRDTs, synchronization algorithms, eventual consistency, persistence layer)
• Understanding of interpolation algorithms and lag compensation
• Experience binding network data to Entity-Component systems
• Experience managing complex asynchronous multiplayer state (objects, avatars, ownership transfer, conflict resolution, timeouts, dynamic resource loading and unloading)
• Ability to write and debug efficient binary protocols (data size and processing time)
• Strong understanding of game engine update loops and state machine management
• Ability to design abstracted, loosely coupled systems across data storage, networking, game engine, and rendering layers in a game engine
• Performance profiling experience in the browser
• Worked with signal processing (WebAudio, Processing graphs, Audio worklets)
• Spatial math ability (matrices, vectors, quaternions, trigonomery, and reference frames)
• Simulate and test network interactions in a continuous integration environment

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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