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Design Engineer

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Gym Class - by IRL Studios

Startup
Category
Technical
Experience
4-7 years
Type
Full-Time
Location
US / CA / MX / Remote US; CA; MX
Salary
$170,000 - $240,000
Job Description
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Role Summary

Gym Class is the top rated social sports game on Meta Quest millions of downloads 79000+ reviews and a 49-star rating. We’re hiring our founding Design Engineer to drive the development of our upcoming mobile web app embedded in native and web surfaces inside our flagship social VR experience. You’ll own key web surfaces end-to-end crafting in Figma then building responsive production-grade UI with ReactNodeCSS and you’ll set a clear quality bar for speed polish and accessibility. If you love living at the intersection of design taste and front-end engineering owning a high-compact roadmap for a startup and shipping to a highly engaged social audience this role is for you.

What You'll Do

  1. Ship end-to-end features: Turn rough ideas and user feedback into polished flows wireframes → interactive Figma → production ReactNode.
  2. 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.
  3. Build a design system: Create reusable components and interaction patterns advocate consistency across mobile web and in-VR web surfaces.
  4. Hit performance budgets: Optimize for fast loads and 60fps interactions on mobile and VR.
  5. Tighten quality loops: Instrument analytics run lightweight usability tests and iterate quickly based on real player behavior.

Qualifications

  1. A designer-who-codes or an engineer with taste: 3–6+ years building consumer web products.
  2. Strong Figma skills and a shipped portfolio of design + code work.
  3. Front-end strong: Expert in React TypeScriptJavaScript HTML CSS layouts animations responsive design. You care about spacing typography and micro-interactions.
  4. Performance-minded: Comfortable profiling code-splitting imageasset strategy cachingCDN and keeping bundles lean.
  5. Pragmatic & fast: You scope well communicate clearly and ship iteratively without sacrificing polish.
  6. Entrepreneurial: High-ownership comfortable with ambiguity. Ex-founders and builders who like to run with problems do great here.