Full-Stack Crypto Software Engineer
Company: Curio Research
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: April 1, 2026
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Job Description:
About us 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 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. 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. We may use artificial
intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process,
such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing
responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not
replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made
by humans. If you would like more information about how your data
is processed, please contact us.
Keywords: Curio Research, San Ramon , Full-Stack Crypto Software Engineer, IT / Software / Systems , San Francisco, California
