Founding Engineering Lead

Job description

About Meeno Backed by Sequoia Capital, AI Fund & NEA, and founded by the former CEO of Tinder, Meeno helps people build **real-world social courage** through voice-based practice: 1-minute scenes, instant scoring, and personalized feedback. **Not a dating app. Not a companion. Not therapy. IRL reps** to help Gen Z meet people IRL. ### 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/playbackLow-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. ### You won't pass the vibe check if... - You are not passionate about our mission. - You only want to manage, not build. - You need perfect specs to move. - You optimize for process over product feel. - You are not fun. ### 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.