Full-Stack Blockchain Infrastructure Engineer, Curio
Crypto games company
Job no longer available
Crypto games company
1-20 employees
Job no longer available
1-20 employees
Company mission
To supercharge on-chain games.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of experience. Familiarity with Golang, Rust, C++, C, or other low level language equivalents
- Basic familiarity with computer architecture and performance optimization from parallelism
- Extreme scrappiness in prototyping and building out proof-of-concepts during heavy R&D
- Experience in designing high-throughput distributed systems
- Ability to lead, design, and execute building complex systems with a lot of moving parts
- High level of transparency and communicate intentions with integrity and honesty
Desirable
- Experience in core blockchain development such as Geth, EVM chains, Cosmos SDK, or other blockchain frameworks
- Experience with parallel programming such as GPU programming
- Familiarity with computer architecture and performance optimization from parallelism, such as GPU programming
- Understanding of game-specific engineering such as designing gaming backends and game engines with technologies like Unity, Unreal, Godot, gRPC, net-code
- Proactive creativity in how engineering can best serve new types of gameplay combined with crypto
- Knowledge and insights in the NFT space, DeFi, and current blockchain games
- You have a hustler mentality and love to build side projects!
- You can join us in person in our San Francisco office
What the job involves
- Design the infrastructure heartbeat that power the next-gen on-chain games, composed of the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), blockchain indexers, game data ingestion pipelines, low-level events-driven frameworks, and analytics data warehouses
- Conduct research and rapid prototyping of such components to best serve high-performance and highly composable blockchain games
- Work with the rest of the engineering team to break through tough, cutting-edge engineering challenges, such as how to make fully on-chain games more performant, how to scale such systems horizontally while maintaining decentralization, how to build a secure and persistent system to give users trust and economic significance in their creations, and much more
Our take
Web3 gaming has grown in recent years, allowing players to play and earn NFTs and crypto, unlocking the possibility of profiting from an investment of gaming time. However, until now Web3 games have not fully leveraged the potential of the blockchain in allowing gamers access to and persistent control of the in-game, multiplayer worlds they are playing in.
Curio exists to change that, providing gaming experiences which encourage user generated content that hooks into the in-game logic. Played entirely on-chain, this allows players to alter the rules of the world they are playing in, affecting everyone involved in the game. Curio debut title, Treaty, lets players craft diplomatic treaties between one another to strategically alter the game's fundamental rules and allow the most cunning player to seize victory. Eventually its games will allow players to build any infrastructure or content they wish, allowing a higher degree of interaction than traditionally possible with older games.
Having closed a seed funding round, Curio is now developing more Web3 games and hoping to expand its player base. It is also aiming to expand its development and design teams, onboarding talent with experience in blockchain engineering and game designers. If it is able to popularize Web3 technology in gaming for more than just making a profit, then Curio stands a good chance of building a significant business in this space.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2024
$5.7m
EARLY VC
Feb 2023
$2.9m
SEED
Total funding: $8.6m
Company HQ
Rincon Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Yijia Chen
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously co-founded Quit Labs where they served as the CTO. They also worked as a core Developer at UC Berkeley Division of Data Science and as a Backend Lead at Treelab.
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