Software Engineer Junior Fresh Graduate
Argus Labs is a crypto gaming company building World Engine and games for open, interoperable massively multiplayer online worlds. It also supports game studios building on the World Engine stack.
Maintainer signals as of 8/10/2026
Funding history
About Argus Labs
Argus Labs operates at the intersection of distributed systems, protocol engineering, and game development. Its World Engine is an EVM-compatible, sharded rollup SDK intended to let game developers build horizontally scalable, fully onchain games. The company also conducts infrastructure and game-economy research, develops games on its stack, and publishes games from studios using World Engine.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will contribute to core protocol engineering for a high-performance onchain game server, participate in research engineering (compilers, interpreters, applied cryptography), and design, develop, and maintain the web platform product suite. You will collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers, ensure code quality through reviews and testing, and participate in the full software development lifecycle from requirements to deployment and maintenance.
Requirements
- Fresh graduate or equivalent with demonstrated software engineering capability
- Highly technical personal projects such as compilers interpreters P2P systems distributed systems or cryptography
- Participation in competitive programming or capture the flag competitions considered a plus
- Computer Science or relevant technical degree from a reputable university
- Fluent in spoken and written English
Responsibilities
- Contribute to World Engine core protocol engineering
- Participate in research engineering on compilers, interpreters, and applied cryptography
- Design develop and maintain the web platform product suite ensuring scalability reliability and performance
- Collaborate with product managers designers and engineers to define and implement features
- Ensure code quality through code reviews testing and automation
- Participate in the full software development lifecycle from requirements to deployment and maintenance
Benefits
- Flexible paid time off and holidays (2 weeks required)
- 100% employer-covered medical dental and vision insurance (US)
- 401k (US)
- Up to $1500 desk setup stipend
- Company retreats