**Location: San Francisco, California (**remote possible for truly exceptional talent)

Campfire is building the next generation of games and consumer apps 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 founding engineer to join our team! You'll be employee #5 and the 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 our mobile Consumer Products and other showcase products for Sprites- like Cozy Friends and the upcoming mobile app companion Aurora (wt).

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.

You will:

• Help define and create our core technology stack architecture for the consumer apps along with the technical founder
• Build features across the board for our web and mobile consumer apps such as Cozy Friends and Aurora (wt)
• 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 tooling and library code
• Rapidly prototype ideas for growth features

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