Software Engineer - Product Engineering

Our partner is looking for a Founding Software Engineer - New Product based in India. This is a founding engineering opportunity focused on taking an early real-time 3D product from prototype to a strong technical foundation. You will be the first and initially only engineer, working closely with product leadership and an established engineering team. The product is browser-native and designed to run across a broad range of devices, from school Chromebooks and Android phones to tablets and gaming PCs. The role combines hands-on software development, rapid experimentation, product thinking, and technical leadership. You will move quickly from ideas and prototypes to practical, scalable solutions and help establish an architecture that can support both product growth and an open-source community.

• js, WebGPU, WebGL, PlayCanvas, and comparable web-game technologies.
• Design the architecture and build the technical foundation for the initial product.
• Determine how the browser-native experience should interact with the existing Windows-native product.
• Explore technical challenges involving multiplayer, content compatibility, and boundaries between browser and Windows-native experiences.
• Establish an architecture suitable for an open-source development community.
• Use AI-assisted development extensively to accelerate experimentation, implementation, and iteration.
• Help shape product decisions by combining technical feasibility, user needs, and long-term scalability.
• Establish performance and optimization strategies for a product expected to operate across a wide range of hardware.
• Requirements: The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering fundamentals with hands-on game development, real-time 3D expertise, and the ability to operate independently in an ambiguous environment. You should be comfortable making decisions with incomplete information, testing ideas quickly, and taking ownership of both product and technical outcomes.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated ability.
• Strong experience with web-based game development and real-time 3D.
• Hands-on experience with technologies such as Three.js, WebGPU, WebGL, PlayCanvas, or comparable frameworks.
• Professional Unity or game development experience.
• Strong understanding of multiple game-development disciplines, such as gameplay, rendering, networking, tools, engines, or technical art.
• Experience with AI-assisted software development.
• Strong performance and optimization instincts across a wide range of hardware and device capabilities.
• Experience with game engines or editors, open-source projects, multiplayer systems, content pipelines, or products shipped across desktop and mobile is a plus.
• A portfolio of software, games, tools, prototypes, GitHub projects, or other products you have built is highly valued. Remote / work from anywhere.
• Contractor engagement.
• Opportunity to help define a new product from its earliest stages.
• Significant ownership over product direction, architecture, and implementation.
• Direct collaboration with product leadership and experienced engineering teams.
• Opportunity to work with modern browser-based real-time 3D technologies.
• Opportunity to use AI-assisted development to accelerate engineering work.
• Opportunity to grow into a larger technical leadership role as the product and team expand.
• Exposure to open-source product architecture and community-driven development.