Gym Class - by IRL Studios
Play basketball in virtual reality
Backend Engineer
About the role
Email founders @ gymclassvr.com with exceptional work on shipping backend services at scale, particularly experience on streaming infrastructure. Ideal experience in gaming and Node.
Why you should join Gym Class - by IRL Studios
Gym Class VR is the best way to play basketball with people from all over the world. Make new friends, break a sweat, and compete to become a digital basketball superstar.
The app is a breakout hit on Quest with a 4.9 star rating and over 1 million downloads. It’s the most popular VR basketball app, and the #5 most reviewed app in the entire Quest ecosystem.
Cofounders Matthew Harris, Justin Hubert, and Paul Katsen bring a unique hybrid of VR and gaming, digital commerce, and consumer experience. Matthew is ex-Zynga, and him and Justin led engineering and art at their prior VR studio. Paul led Product for Twitter's Home feed, the company's largest surface with ~200M daily active users, and exited his previous startup to Coinbase.
Gym Class raised over $8M from top technology investors - including Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, the Golden State Warriors, Kevin Durant, Lonzo Ball, Andre Iguodala, Soma Capital, Founders Inc., Danny Green, Zaza Pachulia, Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund, Balaji Srinivasan, and more.
Check out the experience on TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@gymclassvr.
