Senior Software Engineer (Retail Demo)
Quick Summary
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Nex is on a mission to help families rediscover the joy of movement. Created by parents for parents, Nex combines technology and play to deliver fun, social, and interactive experiences powered by natural body motion, encouraging kids and adults to move more, play more, and have fun together. Nex Playground, the company’s award-winning active play system, is purpose-built to get families moving year-round, with safety and privacy as core considerations in its intentional design. It is certified kidSAFE+ COPPA compliant and built to support healthy, active play for all ages and abilities.
Nex Playground features a growing library of 50+ experiences, including motion and dance games, fitness and educational experiences, and Nex Originals. Content includes collaborations with partners like Hasbro, Sesame Workshop, and NBCUniversal. Nex has been recognized by Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, TIME’s Best Inventions, and Parents’ Best Entertainment System for Families, and has earned Red Dot, IDEA, and Core77 international design awards. We encourage you to explore Have Fun and Is Motion Gaming Back?, as they offer a deeper look into our culture, values, and explain how our approach to motion gaming differs from previous generations.
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Nex Playground is redefining how families play — bringing motion-based, camera-powered gaming into the living room. A key part of our go-to-market motion is the in-store retail demo experience, where customers at retailers like Target, Costco, and Walmart get hands-on with Nex Playground games before they buy.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Retail Demo) to oversee and ensure the proper planning, implementation and deployment of the retail demo software at different sites and retail demo fixtures. This is a highly cross-functional role that requires working with fellow game cells, program managers, design, retail operations and platform engineering team.
You will be owning the software side of the whole retail demo experience, from the firmware, the retail demo experience, analytics to deployment. You will work along with our program managers to ensure that components would be ready before launch; and also prepare all software assets for retail operations to deploy them in stores.
Responsibilities
~1 min read- →Own the retail demo software stack — Ensure all components, including the firmware, launcher software, individual game demos, etc works well together.
- →Iterate and improve retail demo experience — Work with our design to improve the overall experience, boosting user success and satisfaction.
- →Coordinate with Program Managers and Retail Operations — Partner with retail demo program manager (owner schedule and scopes) and retail operations (owner of physical fixture deployment / maintenance) to create update schedules and plan.
- →Periodic content update / refresh — Update software to include latest information from Nex, including new game launches or promos.
- →Setup scalable processes — Set up repeatable SOP and codify manual work, so that we can scale our retail demo to more retailers or even more countries.
- →Work closely with QA — Ensure the whole retail demo experience is robust and stable.
Requirements
~1 min read- Hands-on experience with Unity game development.
- 5+ years of software development experience.
- Experience with large scale system deployment involving server and client components.
- Experience with working with multiple other teams to get things moving.
- Fierce empathy for our users and potential customers.
- An obsession with code and product quality.
- Experience with tooling and automation.
- A growth mindset, always looking for more.
- Excitement about working in a high-growth, fast-paced environment.
Nice to Have
~1 min read- Prior experience working with retailers or location base activations.
- A love for staying active and healthy, with a passion for helping others do the same.
What We Offer
~1 min readLocation & Eligibility
Listing Details
- Posted
- September 11, 2026
- First seen
- September 11, 2026
- Last seen
- September 15, 2026
Posting Health
- Days active
- 0
- Repost count
- 0
- Trust Level
- 67%
- Scored at
- September 11, 2026
Signal breakdown
Nex is a motion-based entertainment company that transforms activity into play through fun and social experiences, using AI and computer vision to power games on devices people already have.
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