Full-Stack Crypto Software Engineer

Job description

**About us** [Curio](https://twitter.com/0xcurio) builds bleeding edge crypto games and infrastructure. Since [2021](https://blog.curio.gg/), we’ve been pioneers in the onchain game space, shipped mini games to thousands of users, and we are about to ship our first major title [Duper](https://twitter.com/playduper), a high-stakes, cross-genre social strategy game. Our game studio veterans hails from titles like Genshin Impact, Halo, Pacific Rim, help scaling those products to millions of users. We also raised 8M+ from top crypto investors to fuel our expansion. Our vision is to build the ultimate fan-powered universe and competition platform around Duper. Our thesis around crypto games revolves around these pillars: **Crypto-centric gameplay:** There exists a huge opportunity space for building truly crypto native gameplay such as high-stakes games. We not only build for hardcore gamers but also games for collectors, speculators, etc. In addition, smart contracts let 3rd party developers build additional experiences on-top of protocols, further boosting network effects. **Incentives and distribution:** Crypto opens up innovation via removing roadblocks from traditional game platforms around user distribution and incentivization. In crypto, everything is a game, yet most current crypto games are still simple plug-and-plays from web2. **Community building:** crypto has an unparalleled superpower in rallying a community around collectors, speculators, gamers. We leverage this to build an ultimate incentive aligned e-sports ecosystem around Duper instead of different parties extracting values out of one another. Combined with our world-class game studio, we believe Curio can build the best crypto games out there. ### At Curio, you will - Own a huge portion of the Duper game product platform that lives as a web platform and on chain. - Build beautiful UIs and robust backends, data pipelines, indexers to power the entire end to end game experience and hyper scale. - Work and grow with a passionate team of 10x engineers. - In general, you are willing to be extremely scrappy and high-agency to drive whatever that needs to get done to push the product forward. ### Qualifications - 3+ years of experience and/or deep knowledge in full-stack web development: React, NodeJS, Typescript, NestJS, etc. - Experience in technologies like Redis, Kafka, AWS. Knows how to design robust and scalable APIs. Detail-oriented. - Familiarity with crypto dev suite: Solidity, Foundry, wagmi. - Is kept up-to-date with the latest in crypto and crypto tech stack (scaling solutions, infra trends, the latest narratives). - Basically, you are knees deep in crypto and is interested in all things crypto. Degens welcomed. ### Bonus if you ... - Are familiar with Golang or other low level languages. - Have familiarity with distributed systems. Understands how blockchains work under the hood. - Loves open source contributions, building frameworks. - Are design and product oriented, proficient with Figma. - Are located in the Bay Area and can commute to SF at least 3 times per week.