Middle/Senior Rust Game Engine Developer (offline)

PROJECT: Meetkai is a Los Angeles-based artificial intelligence and metaverse company, listed by Forbes as the company “leading the AI speech race”. Their advanced AI can understand complex speech, give personalized results in a natural conversation, and boast expertise about any subject. After reaching 20M+ users worldwide, they are dedicated to reshaping the future of the metaverse by building a virtual world rooted in reality, accessible to everyone, everywhere.

STACK: C/C++; GO; Rust.

TEAM: right now it's a small team of 3 developers, working on project from scratch.

PROJECT STAGE: company was founded in 2018, the current R&D product is new, many other products launched in 2021 and 2022 respectively.

REQUIREMENTS:
Must-haves
1+ years of working with Rust (combined, both professionally and as a hobby could work, as Rust is difficult to pick up - most people need about 6 months to do that);
4+ years of experience as a software engineer with compiled, typed languages (C/C++/Go);
2+ years in game development.
Nice-to-haves
Experience building a game engine (usually this is a pet project or a hobby) - huge plus;
Knowledge/skills of working with WebAssembly;
Excitement and passion for Rust, VR, WebAssembly, “the Metaverse”.
Soft skills
Ability to take ownership and be proud of contributions to our best-in-class game engine;
A blend of perfectionism and pragmatism in Software Engineering ethos;
Empathy for our users, partners, the team, and for yourself;
Optimistic and realistic attitude, and a desire to win together as a team;
Communication abilities related to complicated technical topics.

RESPONSIBILITITES:
Learning the full stack and breadth of our game engine;
Implement and optimize new 3D asset-processing & rendering features;
Fill out integration with the full WebXR API for use with new VR peripherals;
Develop and improve networking stack for multiplayer data syncing and static geometry loading;
Implementing with Spatial Audio and Voice Chat features;
Integration with Rapier physics engine;
Creating demos to demonstrate various new features of the engine.

YOU WILL GET:
Competitive financial reward and other social benefits;
Possibility to work with minor supervision and low-bureaucracy;
Flexible schedule and friendly working atmosphere;
Tight-knit team with an inclusive and transparent culture.

About StartupSoft

StartupSoft connects elite Ukrainian engineers & hustlers with top startups from Silicon Valley.
We don’t “rent” employees to “clients”, rather we place engineers directly with well-funded, product startups as an integral part of their team.
We strive to replicate the in-house experience with a remote team.

Company website:
http://startupsoft.com

DOU company page:
https://jobs.dou.ua/companies/startup-soft/