Software Engineer, Product

Campfire is building the next generation of games powered by AI. Our first product is a cozy lifesim game with AI NPCs at the heart of the gameplay experience for PC and mobile platforms. We are a small and laser focused team doing something new and innovative.

We are a team of experienced product builders from Peloton, Microsoft, and Replika who've built products and games for millions of people. We're backed by some of the world's top tech and gaming investors including YCombinator and backers of Coinbase, Instacart and many more.

We're looking for a senior engineer to join our team! You'll be employee #5 and heart of the founding technical team. You will help develop critical features for Campfire’s foundations and help it scale as we launch. It is the perfect time to join this rocketship and make huge impact.

You will work on building out the core product- from UIs, authentication, applied AI, payments, backend services, live operations, infrastructure and even more! You will have major influence on the company’s foundational stack.

Our ideal candidate can grow and become the CTO as the company scales.

You will:

• Help define and create our core technology stack architecture along with the technical founders
• Build features across the board- anything from in app purchases, to LLM inference workflows for our AI chat mechanics
• Develop server apps, cloud functions, cron jobs etc required to support live and networked user features such as push notifications,
• Contribute to overall developer velocity by smartly investing in our tools, like a multi platform per commit build server
• Rapidly prototype ideas for growth features

You must have:

• Demonstrated history of being a hands on builder of consumer products- work or hobby projects
• 3+ years of experience working as a Software Engineer in consumer mobile apps, modern live service game development or AR/VR across the stack- product to infrastructure.
• You’re equally comfortable building a beautiful sign up flow pixel perfect to Figma designs and implementing a Discord SDK friendslist sync integration.
• Deep experience with one of C# and modern Javascript/Typescript, with at least familiarity with the other
• Some familiarity with native iOS app development and Swift- or at least eager to learn the basics fast
• Familiarity with modern cloud platforms such as Google Cloud
• Experience with fundamentals of scaling backend- you know your auto scaling groups and load balancers
• Creative eye and a user-first mentality
• Passion for cutting edge of applied AI and/or games- ideally both!!

Bonus Points for:

• Experience with live services and rapid-deployment
• Experience with multiplatform mobile product codebases like Unity, React Native, Flutter, etc
• Experience developing realtime multiplayer online products
• Desire to make huge impact at an early stage venture backed gaming startup with huge upside

We strongly prefer candidates based in Canada. For truly exceptional candidates, we’ll consider anyone who lives in the Americas and can work compatible hours with US Eastern Time zone.

If this sounds like you please get in touch!