Design and implement scalable backend services in Node.js and TypeScript
Ensure transactional integrity in high-volume economic systems
Model digital ownership, entitlements, wallets, and payouts
Build and evolve systems supporting both first-party and creator-driven content
Drive refactors that improve maintainability and long-term platform evolution
Participate in architectural discussions shaping the future of VRChat’s economy stack
Design reliable economic event representations
Ensure traceability across payment transactions and reporting systems
Enable subscription and marketplace analytics
Support experimentation and feature iteration
Maintain reconciliation accuracy and reporting integrity
Contribute to fraud detection and prevention systems
Own services from development through deployment and monitoring
Improve CI/CD reliability and release safety
Work within containerized environments (Docker)
Contribute to Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Strengthen observability, monitoring, and incident response practices
Occasionally jump in to resolve critical production issues
Design and implement scalable backend services
Own systems end-to-end through production
Improve performance, observability, and operational resilience
Partner cross-functionally with Product, Design, Data, Finance, Trust & Safety, Infrastructure, and peer engineering teams
Lead architectural initiatives across the economy stack
Shape long-term technical direction
Identify systemic risks and drive preventative improvements
Mentor engineers and elevate engineering standards
Influence and inform cross-team design decisions
Bring credible experience designing and operating financial or high-integrity transactional systems at scale
Architect cross-team economic platform primitives (e.g., entitlement models, payment flows, reconciliation frameworks, event contracts)
Define long-term technical strategy for the economy stack, balancing scalability, compliance, and product velocity
Lead strategic architecture initiatives spanning multiple services or teams, and high stake external partners and integrations
Mentor senior engineers and influence technical direction across the organization
Influence cross-team design decisions at platform scale