Founding Engineering Lead
Lead engineering for an AI-powered voice app building social courage for Gen Z. Own web/mobile/backend stack, build voice AI primitives, co-design product, hire top talent, and architect for rapid iteration.
About the job
What You'll Do
- Own the technical foundation of Meeno end-to-end: Web + mobile + backend + data + experimentation
- Co-design product vision in close partnership with Meeno’s team:
- Renate Nyborg, founder/CEO (former Tinder CEO, ex Apple/Headspace)
- Josh Knox, product lead (founder of Outright, brand and content expert)
- Andrew Ng, Chairman (AI Fund, founder of Coursera/Google Brain)
- Build core AI product primitives:
- Voice capture/playback
- Low-latency interactions
- Scene framework (content + branching + scoring hooks)
- Feedback loops and user progression
- Personalization
- Architect for speed + iteration (weekly experiments, not quarterly releases)
- Set the engineering bar:
- Quality, reliability, security/privacy, and shipping culture
- Hire and mentor engineers as we scale:
- Focus on quality over quantity, leveraging AI and talent to scale while staying lean
What We're Looking For
- Strong builder who has shipped consumer products
- Comfortable with ambiguity and moving fast without breaking the soul of the product
- Product taste: you care about “feel,” not just functionality
- Excited by voice, interaction design, and behavior change
- Can operate like a founder: make tradeoffs, set direction, ship
Green flags (not requirements)
- Hyped about social connection, empathy for Gen Z loneliness
- Early adopter of AI-driven development
- Hungry for rapid career progression and societal impact
- Experience with audio/voice pipelines, realtime systems, mobile performance
- History of building unconventional projects (creative tech, experiments, indie builds)
- Interest in human behavior, social dynamics, and product psychology
What success looks like (first 6 months)
- Meeno has a stable foundation, and we can run rapid experiments
- Our product feels fast, human, and culturally sharp
- We have a pipeline of world-class engineering talent
- We are well-positioned to raise Series A with clear signal on north star metrics
- We are having fun
Skills
JavaScript, React Native, Node.js, Python, AI/ML, Voice Processing, Real-Time Systems, AWS, Postgres, Docker
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