Founding Software Engineer (Real-Time 3D)

Location: Remote / Anywhere

Company

hirify.global is a global youth game-making studio and learning community helping learners build games, portfolios, and future-ready digital skills.

What you will do

• Define the MVP and rapidly prototype competing approaches for a new browser-based real-time 3D product.
• Evaluate Three.js, WebGPU, WebGL, PlayCanvas, and other web-game technologies.
• Assess the existing browser-native prototype and determine what to retain or replace.
• Design the product architecture and build the initial technical foundation.
• Define how the browser-native product should interact with the live Windows-native product, including multiplayer and content compatibility.
• Provide hands-on technical and architectural leadership while using AI-assisted development to accelerate experimentation.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience or equivalent demonstrated ability.
• Strong experience with web-based game development and real-time 3D.
• Professional Unity or comparable game-development experience.
• Understanding of multiple game-development disciplines, including gameplay, rendering, networking, tools, engines, or technical art.
• Strong product judgment, architectural skills, communication, and performance optimization instincts across diverse hardware.
• Ability to work independently in an ambiguous, rapidly changing startup environment.

Nice to have

• Experience with game engines or editors, open-source projects, multiplayer, content pipelines, or products shipped across desktop and mobile.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work from anywhere.
• Initial 3-month contractor engagement.
• High ownership over product definition, architecture, and implementation.
• Opportunity to continue with the product and grow into a broader technical leadership role.
• Collaboration with the Head of Product and the Windows-native product engineering team.

Hiring process

• Submit a resume or LinkedIn profile and examples of software, games, tools, prototypes, or other products built.
• GitHub and other public work are highly valued.