Job Description

Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and services, we're building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together. Whether we're creating new products or helping a small business expand its reach, people at Facebook are builders at heart. Our global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to empower people around the world to build community and connect in meaningful ways. Together, we can help people build stronger communities - we're just getting started.

Come invent the future. At Facebook Reality Labs Research, software development is vital to accelerating our scientific explorations and generating viable paths to the consumer products people will use for decades to come — products that will unlock human communication potential across the globe.If you are a full stack software engineer with an emphasis on web development and a love for solving novel problems then you'll thrive in our collaborative environment. Join a world-class team of pioneers experimenting with breakthrough interaction technology including virtual humans, from capture to reproduction. Partner with expert research scientists, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers and other brilliant software minds to build cutting-edge prototypes and create the technology that makes AR/VR universal. We aspire to a vision of social VR and AR, where people can interact with each other across distances in a way that is indistinguishable from in-person interactions. And we are just getting started. You can help us make this dream a reality.

Responsibilities

• Develop shared tooling and frameworks to empower and connect researchers with the end-user experience
• Create the pathways to capture, process, and deliver petabytes of data for the future of communication with telepresence
• Participate in design and code reviews. Collaborate in a team environment across multiple scientific and engineering disciplines
• making the architectural trade-offs required to rapidly deliver software solutions
• Work with researchers and engineers to understand challenges in building state-of-the-art software systems
• Write clean code, debug complex problems that span systems, prioritize the most important work, and get things done with a high level of efficiency
• Learn constantly, educate others, dive into new areas with unfamiliar technologies, and embrace the ambiguity of AR/VR problem solving
• Propose and implement reliable, maintainable, and scalable system-level software solutions to empower research activities
  

Minimum Qualification

• Bachelor of Science (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science or a related field
• 5+ years experience with web technologies including React.js
• 5+ years experience with database design and management
• 5+ years experience with back-end programming languages
• Experience with building and releasing internal tools for local customers
• Experience with software development practices such as source control, code reviews, unit testing, debugging and profiling
  

Preferred Qualification

• Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience
• Experience working with scientific research teams
• Experience with Big Data Pipelines and/or Machine Learning
• Experience developing AR/VR applications
• Experience with C++ and/or Python
• Experience with statistical analysis
  

Facebook is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Facebook is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at accommodations-ext@fb.com.