Overview
culver city, ca | remote | full time
about our client
purpose is creating the world’s first ai-powered personal-growth coach—helping people go from “i’m doing fine” to “i know who i am, what i care about, and how to live with clarity.”
* co-founded by mark manson (20 m+ readers, the subtle art of not giving a f*) and raj singh (100m+ users on last ai product, acquired by revinate).
* launching in a few months to mark’s massive audience.
* blends personalized ai coaching, habit-building, and assessments—feels like a meaningful conversation, not an app.
why you'll love this role
* shape the experience: own data flows, real-time apis, and ui that make each coaching session feel like magic.
* iterate at speed: weekly feature drops, rapid experiments, instant user feedback.
* level-up daily: work shoulder-to-shoulder with founders who’ve shipped to hundreds of millions.
what you'll do
* own the react native mobile app—lead development, architecture, deployment (ios + android).
* architect & scale aws serverless infra: lambda, dynamodb, s3, api gateway, appsync, sns/sqs.
* build robust mobile-first apis: sub-200 ms response times powering real-time features.
* ship growth levers: referrals, feature flags, a/b tests, pricing experiments.
* lead code reviews & set engineering standards that scale.
* optimize for viral growth: handle spikes from 10 k to 1 m+ concurrent users at launch.
you'll bring
* 5+ yrs building consumer back-ends at 100 k+ mau scale, plus proven mobile-app deployment.
* react native mastery—complex state mgmt, navigation, perf tuning.
* end-to-end mobile deployment: app store connect, google play, expo eas, ota updates, ci/cd.
* aws serverless: lambda, dynamodb, s3, api gateway, appsync, sns, cloudwatch, cdk/terraform.
* observability chops: opentelemetry, datadog, honeycomb, etc.
* track record integrating auth (clerk/auth0), payments (stripe), analytics sdks.
* scale-first mindset—design for 10× traffic growth without rewrites.
* quality champion—strong code reviews, tests, docs.
bonus points
* rag / llm pipeline experience, vector dbs.
* react native performance tuning (hermes, expo eas).
* mobile ci/cd wizardry, automated testing.
* soc 2 type ii steering.
* real-time systems (websockets, sse, graphql subscriptions).
perks
* unlimited pto
* founder-led growth coaching
* best-on-planet tools
* high-trust, high-velocity team
salary: $80k – $160k • 0.0% – 0.25%
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