Senior / Staff Backend Engineer (API) – Economy
About this role
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Job Overview
VRChat is known as one of the most vibrant social hangout immersive destinations — a place where people gather around shared interests, build communities, host events, and create entirely new worlds and experiences together. With over 250,000 user-created worlds and growing, the platform powers concerts, meetups, performances, niche communities, and creator-run businesses across VR, desktop, and mobile.
People connect across time zones and cultures, and entire communities organize their social lives inside VRChat. It’s a live, global creator ecosystem with meaningful scale and long-term momentum.
We have built a team of experienced engineers and product leaders from companies such as Netflix, Meta, Microsoft, Roblox, Google, Amazon, Unity, Spotify, Discord, Twitch, and others. Backed by $100M from Makers Fund, Anthos Capital, and HTC, we’re investing in durable platform infrastructure — including the economic systems that support creators and end-users worldwide.
About the Economy Team
The Economy team designs and operates the systems that power creator monetization and platform-wide transactions. Our work ensures creators can reliably earn income while the platform remains stable, sustainable, and built for long-term growth.
Our team operates with high velocity and high impact—without sacrificing work-life integration. We value technical excellence, mutual respect, and solving hard problems together.
What We're Looking For
- We’re looking for a Senior / Staff Backend Engineer (API) – Economy to join our Economy team.
- You will play a foundational role in architecting and evolving the systems that power how creators earn and how users transact across VRChat globally.
- This role focuses on building high-integrity backend infrastructure that supports subscriptions, digital ownership, creator monetization, payment processing, and economic analytics at global scale.
- You’ll work primarily with Node.
- js and TypeScript, designing systems where correctness, auditability, reliability, and compliance are non-negotiable.
- If you’re excited about building financial-grade systems for a thriving global creator ecosystem, this role could be the perfect fit.