Senior Backend Engineer, Economy Platform (Remote)

VRChat Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Stock options

Unlimited vacation

Paid parental leave

Fully remote / Work from anywhere

Job summary

VRChat is seeking a Senior/Staff Backend Engineer (API) for the Economy team to architect and evolve the systems that power creator monetization and platform transactions globally. You will design high-integrity backend infrastructure with a focus on subscriptions, ownership, payouts, and analytics, using Node.js and TypeScript at scale.

You’ll work with cross-functional teams and contribute to platform reliability, PCI/GDPR compliance, and secure payment integrations while driving architectural

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience in SaaS, fintech, marketplaces, or online platforms.
• Deep proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript.
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases (MySQL, MongoDB, Redis).
• Experience managing message queues, caching strategies, and WebSocket systems.
• Proven experience building and maintaining external integrations (payment vendors, fintech platforms).
• Strong understanding of profiling, optimization tradeoffs, and observability.
• Experience operating under PCI DSS, GDPR, and PII requirements.
• Experience building subscription engines, marketplaces, accounting systems, or invoicing workflows.
• Familiarity with AWS, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity across experimental and high-certainty requirements.
• Experience working in complex, evolving codebases.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable backend services in Node.js and TypeScript.
• Ensure transactional integrity in high-volume economic systems.
• Model digital ownership, wallets, entitlements, and payouts.
• Build and evolve systems supporting both first-party and creator-driven content.
• Drive refactors to improve maintainability and long-term evolution.
• Participate in architectural discussions shaping 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.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

Backend engineering

Observability

PCI DSS/GDPR/PII

Payment/Vendor integrations

AWS

Docker

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

System design

Tools

MySQL

MongoDB

Redis

WebSocket

Job description

VRChat is seeking a Senior/Staff Backend Engineer (API) for the Economy team to architect and evolve the systems that power creator monetization and platform transactions globally. You will design high-integrity backend infrastructure with a focus on subscriptions, ownership, payouts, and analytics, using Node.js and TypeScript at scale.

You’ll work with cross-functional teams and contribute to platform reliability, PCI/GDPR compliance, and secure payment integrations while driving architectural