Founding Full-Stack Engineer

Ready to build the next generation of AI-native consumer experience?

Text.ai is a consumer-first AI native company, revolutionizing how people communicate in group chats.

We're pioneering an entirely new category of consumer AI products that millions will use daily. We are building the first AI-native communication platform, where every conversation becomes intelligent, collaborative, and effortless. We're reimagining how humans and AI work together from first principles.

While everyone else builds individual AI assistants, we're solving the hardest problem in consumer AI: making multiple humans happy simultaneously through true group intelligence.

Our AI doesn't just respond to prompts. It stays, learns, thinks, and adapts to make every human connection better. From planning the perfect group trip to finding restaurants everyone will love, we transform chaotic group coordination into effortless collaboration.

The future isn't prompt → response.

It's presence → understanding → creation.

We are backed by Y-Combinator, SV Angel, and angel investors from Shopify and Tencent, with founders from Ex-Tesla, Eventbrite, Amazon, & McKinsey.

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The Role

We're hiring a Founding Full-Stack Engineer (Frontend/Backend) to be the technical owner and driver of our new app experience. This is a very hands-on role focused primarily on React Native (iOS and Android), along with Backend (Python) integration. You will be joining the founding team and taking the lead on building our mobile app from the ground up, while also contributing to backend integration tasks when needed.

This isn't your first native app launch. You've done this before, you are a seasoned engineer and know how to ship bug-free, polished, and high-performing apps. You'll work closely with design, product, and engineering stakeholders to build intuitive and beautiful experiences, FAST.

What makes this role extraordinary:

Category Creation: You're not iterating on existing patterns. You're inventing new ones that will define how humans and AI collaborate.
Massive Scale Potential: Early product-market fit signals with explosive organic growth. Your work will impact millions of daily conversations.
Technical Innovation: Implementing AI capabilities that don't exist anywhere else, group preference learning, multi-participant coordination, social facilitation algorithms.
Founding Impact: Direct influence on product direction, technical architecture, and company culture.

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What You'll Build

Own the Mobile Platform (Primary Focus)

Lead development of our React Native app from ground zero to millions of users
Create seamless group collaboration experiences impossible on any other platform
Build AI-native interfaces that feel magical, not mechanical
Ship polished, performant experiences across iOS and Android

Shape Our Technical Future

Architect mobile backend (Python) integration for real-time group AI coordination
Implement cutting-edge GenAI features, you'll be implementing AI features that don't exist anywhere else.
Design systems that scale from thousands to millions of concurrent conversations
Become a true full-stack powerhouse working across our entire technical ecosystem

Collaborate Across Disciplines

Partner with design and product to bring completely new interaction patterns to life
Work directly with founders on product strategy and technical roadmap
Help build the engineering culture and practices for our growing team

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Who You Are

Technical Excellence

4+ years shipping React Native apps that users love, you know what separates good from great in mobile UX
Full-stack capability with backend integration experience (Python/modern web stack)
Consumer product instincts, you obsess over performance, polish, and user delight
Senior ownership mindset, you set direction, drive decisions, and own outcomes

Startup DNA

Thrives in ambiguity, comfortable building new things without established playbooks
Ships relentlessly, measures iteration cycles in days, not months
Quality obsessed, won't ship anything you wouldn't personally use and love
Team player, humble, hardworking, ready to do whatever it takes to move the team forward

Bonus Superpowers

Experience with GenAI/LLM integration in consumer products
Background in social/communication platforms
Mobile app performance optimization expertise
Understanding of viral growth mechanics

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Why Text.ai

Product-Market Fit Signals

We've found something real. Organic word-of-mouth growth, high user engagement, and genuine user love with millions of messages transacted in just a few months.

World-Class Backing

Y Combinator, SV Angel, and angels from Shopify and Tencent. Founding team from Tesla, Eventbrite, Amazon, and McKinsey.

Technical Challenge

You'll work on problems that don't have Stack Overflow answers. Group AI coordination, social preference learning, multi-participant optimization - this is frontier territory.

Culture & Values

Humble excellence - Big ambitions, zero egos
Ownership mentality - Everyone leads, everyone contributes, everyone wins
Learning velocity - New challenges, new growth every single day
Impact focus - Your work directly shapes how millions of people connect

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Benefits

This position offers:

Competitive Pay
Meaningful Equity
401k Plan
Fitness and Gym Reimbursement

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Ready to Build the Future?

This isn't a FAANG role where you'll optimize conversion rates by 0.1%. This is your chance to architect the foundational technology and new experience for how humans and AI will collaborate for the next decade.

We're looking for engineers who want to build something that matters, ship something people love, and create technology that makes human connection more effortless and joyful.

When you apply, please include:

Your resume or description of recent technical experience
Why you're excited about this specific opportunity and what draws you to Text.ai
Links to apps you've shipped, GitHub repos, or anything that showcases your work
What excites you most about building collaborative AI experiences

About the company

We're building the first group chat with social skills.

While everyone else is stuck with boring individual chatbots, we've cracked the impossible: Alfi reads the room, understands each person, and creates custom intelligence for every group chat.

Alfi is your new social friend. The one who remembers everything, plans effortlessly, and keeps the crew together.

Here's what that looks like:

Book restaurants together, with Yelp built in, directly in the chat. No more "where should we go?" spirals. Reserve instantly.
Create images with your friends: drop your crew into funny hats, wild scenes, anything you can dream up. Multiplayer image gen, first of its kind.
Social calendar: upcoming hangs, all in one place. Everyone on the same page.
Group Wrapped: who's the chattiest? Top inside jokes? Now you'll know.
Reminders & Memory: Alfi remembers your spots, your preferences, and nudges you to actually hang out.

We're in the middle of a quiet shift. Gen Z is leaving broadcast social media. They're retreating to group chats, smaller, more intentional and personal spaces where they're honestly themselves.

But group chats are also where plans go to die. Someone has to be "the planner" or nothing happens.

We believe the group chat is the real social network. Where the funniest moments and real conversations happen in real time. With Alfi, we hope to bring you together more expressively, a lot more often.

This technology will bring humanity closer than it's ever been before. Not replace connection, deepen it. That's the future we're building toward.

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