Curio Crypto Game Developer Position

Curio builds bleeding edge crypto games and infrastructure. Since 2021, 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, a high-stakes, cross-genre social strategy game. Our game studio veterans hail 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.

Even if the above qualifications aren't an exact match, passionate and enthusiastic people who love to quickly learn are always welcome! Feel free to reach out or apply regardless and we would love to chat.