Join us to build the next big social app!
Learn.xyz is looking for a Senior Engineer to architect and build our product across our entire stack of app and web. If you have experience building mobile apps, preferably across iOS and Android, you are our person!
We are in need of someone to steer our engineering efforts (obviously). This is your chance to join a fun startup with more traction than those cart tires.
Do you have fun getting your hands dirty? Love building apps that are absolutely delightful and will have tens of thousands of users right out of the gate?
Sounds like we should meet!
Your mission, should you choose to accept it
Join us to give TikTok and Instagram a run for their literal money! We are building an AI-power social learning platform, where people spend time every day – while feeling good about learning something new alongside their friends.
We just raised a seed round on the heels of strong early traction and are looking for our first engineering hire to get us from tens of thousands of lessons created per month to our first million.
Your calling Mobile App Engineer
Compensation Competitive salary for a startup… and generous early-stage equity
Location San Francisco (no remote)
Our early product Check out our app. People created 80k lessons since launch
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Lead the software development for our app, working closely with the founders and our designer to create an awesome experience that scales to hundreds of thousands of monthly active users
Help us scale our already successful mobile app
Make architectural decisions factoring in reliability, security, and scalability concerns
Build our first development team, and push us to give our very best every day
Competitive salaries for a seed company, and generous early-stage equity
Work in the heart of the AI ecosystem – we are two blocks from OpenAI, which we regularly visit, and sit in the same space as 25 likeminded startups
Health insurance and unlimited paid time off – we want you to be healthy and happy
An actual, beautiful office in a great community space, where you are surrounded by smart and driven teams
A really early foot in the door in a startup that is already backed by really awesome mission-driven investors like Blockchange, Coinbase Ventures, and Flori Ventures
You’ll also meet Lumi, our mascot – plus you’ll have an unlimited supply of them
And enjoy lunches we organize with all the other startups in the ecosystem
What’s special about you?
Have extensive experience building cross-platform mobile apps, specifically with React Native and Firebase
You have experience managing and streamlining deployment
Have built consumer products that can handle a lot of traffic
Maximize your impact by making use of every possible existing tool, framework, or AI out there
Are thrilled about coming into the office and working closely with our tight-knit team, monitor to monitor (really nice monitors actually)
What’s special about us?
An AI hackathon we hosted in our office
We OBSESS over building amazing products
Early stage startup with early product-market-fit: Over 80,000 lessons were created by users just since our recent launch
Our advisors and angel investors are C-level execs from major learning platforms and large social networks
We are bringing the SF AI community together, organize events, and facilitate exchanges
What to expect while interviewing
Let’s take our time to get to know you – this is a huge leap of faith for you and us! But here’s the formal process:
In-person (preferred) or video interview with Arndt (co-founder and CTO) We’ll be looking for a good first vibe here – would we love to hang out with you, find you interesting, think you’d fit into the team.
Lunch with Christian (co-founder and CEO) and Arndt Let the fun begin! You’ll have to pick a place and time, we just show up and pay. This will give us a really good first personal impression of you, the things you think and obsess over, and why you are interested in joining us.
Video interview with Carmen (our designer and first hire) Carmen will want to know how you can work with product and design. It helps to bring examples of previous things you’ve built.
Technical challenge (take-home) At this point, you are ready… for the big test. We’ll have two things for you to implement… which one will you choose? How will you approach this? What questions will you ask? This should not take more than a day of tinkering on the side.
Paid trial period (2 weeks) We’ll pay you as if you were fully employed, and you’ll become part of the team. Nothing beats actually working together… so why not just work together for a short period of time.
Not used to this process? Neither are we, but you’ll be the most important hire we’ll make.
What is working with us like?
We are so cool, we have our own fridge
Pretend we know how to play Golf
Shocking… we even get along with our investors!
More fine dining… there are deals you can’t refuse
But really, just waiting for you to apply!
You are an amazing person who fits into our super early-stage team
You have the skills to completely blow things out of the water
You’ll fit right in if you are:
Extremely curious. Everything you look at teases you with a secret.
Like to laugh and are full of energy about the things that fascinate you
Tenacious – determined to solve ANY problem
Self-propelled and ask for forgiveness, not permission
Humble – no BS, no overpromises
Driven to create products people fall in deep love with
What we don’t care about
Your GPA, if/where you graduated from, or what football team you love
What are you waiting for? Apply above!
