Whym
Founding Engineer, Full-Stack
San Francisco Bay Area or remote · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years in engineering.
About the job
Build and maintain Whym’s backend services, data systems, and user-facing mobile and web apps, while contributing across infrastructure, prototypes, and product decisions.
What you'll do
- Design and ship backend services, APIs, data models, and pipelines supporting product activity, analytics, ranking, and evaluation.
- Ship features across mobile and web, and improve CI, observability, deployment, and developer experience as needed.
- Build prototypes, participate in user research, make product and technical decisions, and provide customer support.
What they ask for
- 8+ years in engineering, with substantial full-stack work shipped to production.
- Strong backend foundations, including service design, data modeling, async behavior, and performance debugging.
- Production experience shipping frontend or mobile code and ability to work in a React, React Native, or native iOS/Android codebase.
- AI-native: use modern AI tools daily and exercise judgment about their output.
Nice to have
- Experience with search, feed, recommender, or ranking systems; offline-first, real-time, or location-based products; or voice, multimodal, or agent-driven interfaces.
- Frontend or mobile experience with shipped consumer-facing work; infrastructure/developer-experience ownership; early-stage startup experience; or design and interaction sensibility.
Tools
React, React Native, iOS, Android
AI focus
Use modern AI tools in daily engineering work. The product is an AI-powered app, and the role may work with data feeding ranking and evaluation; specific AI development tasks are not stated.
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