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This is a 0→1 product engineering role where you work directly with the founder and engineering team to turn ambiguous product problems into working software.\n\nYou will be expected to:\nUnderstand the problem → explore solutions → make trade-offs → design → build → ship → measure → improve.\n\nWHAT YOU WILL BUILD & OWN\n\nMOBILE\nOnboarding, profiles, discovery, interactions, messaging, activities, and companion experiences.\n\nSOCIAL SYSTEMS\nRelationships, social graph, compatibility, and interaction flows.\n\nBACKEND\nAPIs, services, authentication, notifications, and background processes.\n\nDATA\nPostgreSQL models, user/activity data, analytics, and behavioural signals.\n\nREAL-TIME\nMessaging, live interactions, notifications, and event-driven workflows.\n\nAI-ENABLED\nRecommendations, personalization, and companion-powered experiences.\n\nINFRASTRUCTURE\nCloud deployment, CI/CD, monitoring, reliability, and cost management.\n\nWHAT YOUR DAY-TO-DAY LOOKS LIKE\n• Build and ship mobile and full-stack product features end-to-end.\n• Design APIs, database models, and backend services for a social product.\n• Translate ambiguous product problems into simple, reliable technical solutions.\n• Make architecture and engineering trade-offs for performance, scalability, security, and cost.\n• Work closely with the founder, product/design team, and Companion Intelligence engineer.\n• Prototype quickly, test assumptions, and iterate based on user behaviour and product feedback.\n• Own features from problem → architecture → implementation → deployment → improvement.\n• Help establish engineering practices around testing, monitoring, security, and reliability.\n\nWHO SHOULD APPLY\n• Experience: 0–4 years, including exceptional fresh graduates. Strong 1–3 year engineers and experienced 3–4 year product builders are welcome.\n• Fundamentals: Strong CS/software engineering fundamentals.\n• Evidence of Building: We value what you have built more than the number of years on your résumé. Shipped apps, strong side projects, hackathons, internships, open source, or startup work are highly valued.\n• Mindset: High ownership, curiosity, strong fundamentals, clear communication, learning velocity, and the ability to work through ambiguity.\n\nWHAT WE LOOK FOR\nMOBILE CAPABILITY\nCan you build and ship a polished mobile experience?\n\nENGINEERING DEPTH\nDo you understand why a system works, not just how to make it run?\n\nPRODUCT JUDGMENT\nCan you determine what should be built when the problem is ambiguous?\n\nARCHITECTURE / SYSTEMS\nCan you reason across APIs, databases, services, real-time systems, scale, and cost?\n\nSPEED OF EXECUTION\nCan you move from idea → prototype → production quickly without compromising fundamentals?\n\nAI FAMILIARITY\nDo you understand how modern AI can become a useful, reliable product capability?\n\nBUILD WITH US\nYou will join at a stage where many answers do not exist yet. 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