Senior UX Engineer

Job Description

As a Senior UX Engineer you will be responsible for creating and proving out features and overlays to support gameplay and core functionality whilst maintaining engineering best practices. You will help establish workflows, incremental features and improve user experience to help us continue building world-class VR games.

FitXR is a fitness technology company working at the cutting edge of virtual reality. We started life in a garden shed in the UK. Fast forward to today, we’re known as the team behind the award-winning VR App FitXR which is one of the top-selling games on the Oculus and Steam stores. In 2020 we raised a $7.5 million Series A which has enabled us to scale, be on track to hit 1M downloads by the end of 2021 and change even more people's lives through virtual reality fitness.

We are a global remote first company and our team spans across the UK, US and Spain. Our team comes from a variety of backgrounds including fitness and some of the most successful technology and gaming companies in the world. Our mission is to redefine fitness and prove that exercise can be fun - and for everyone. We believe in a future where exercise everywhere - whether that is the gym, the park, or at home - is enhanced through engaging technology that extends your reality.

What you’ll do 👀

• Work alongside UI/UX artists and designers to implement front-end solutions.
• Help establish and improve our UI pipeline.
• Interact with other disciplines to push our tools and pipelines; providing creative solutions and input on projects.
• Help define interactions and transitions.
• Perform within production schedules whilst maintaining high-quality work.
• Contribute towards building new workflows and techniques.
• Help artists to ensure assets are created correctly for implementation.
• Delivering prototypes that ultimately validate design thinking and aesthetics.

Requirements

Tech Stack 💻

You should apply if ✅

• You have a solid understanding of UI/UX production in Unity.
• You have an up to date knowledge of UX/design trends.
• You have experience creating documentation, briefs, style guides and concepts to support and hold the vision.
• You have multiple years experience shipping similar projects
• Would be great if you have some knowledge of shader creation tools towards UI/UX.

Our mission is to make fitness fun and accessible for everyone. To build inclusive products, we need to build an inclusive team. Please know that this list is indicative and that we would still love to hear from you even if you feel you only are a 75% match. Skills can be learnt, diversity cannot. We promote a diverse and inclusive culture at FitXR.

Logistics 🛠

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer visas of any kind at this time!

Our interview process takes place on Google Hangouts and tends to consist of the following stages:

• Portfolio Review (as part of application)
• Hiring Manager + Art Team interview (1 hour)
• Art Workshop (1 hour)
• Founder Interview (30 mins)

Please let us know if you require any accommodations for the interview process, and we’ll do our best to provide assistance.

Benefits

Our benefits are hosted on Ben which gives you flexibility to make choices that work for you.

🌎 Fully remote: your life, your way of working

🏝 Unlimited annual leave

💰 Competitive salary with half year and end of year reviews

📈 Stock options

🌱£800 per annum learning budget

🧘 £900 per annum wellbeing budget

🏡£400 work from home budget

🤗 Bi-annual company retreat & regular get togethers

💻 Laptop & VR headset

⛑ Private Health Insurance

🚴‍♂️ Annual travel pass & cycle to work scheme

👶 12 weeks full paid family leave