Software Engineer Junior Fresh Graduate
Crypto-native game developer, publisher, and research lab building open, interoperable onchain games and World Engine, a scalable gamechain SDK.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
Funding history
About Argus Labs
Argus Labs is a crypto-native gaming company operating across distributed-systems research, game development, game publishing, and blockchain gaming infrastructure. Its primary infrastructure product, World Engine, is an open-source framework and sharded rollup SDK for building high-performance, real-time onchain games. Argus also develops and publishes games including Dark Frontier.
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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