Founding Engineering Lead

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