About Us Thoughtful makes it easy to spend more time on the content you
love—instead of what’s trending on social media today. By transforming wasted
downtime in toxic social media apps into time spent going deeper on your
interests, learning, and growing, Thoughtful makes you happier and healthier
every day. We’re a small team with decades of experience at companies like
Facebook and Apple. Our CEO, Brian Amerige, was one of the 20 engineers who
built Facebook’s first native iPhone app, before tech-leading Paper, and then
starting+leading the engineering and design teams responsible for the Facebook
experience on all platforms. Alex Epstein, co-founder, has started multiple
profitable content businesses and leads our strategy to ensure the technology
we build is deeply optimized to help people flourish. How Thoughtful works
Thoughtful brings together all the sources of interesting and good-for-you
content you know about—podcasts, YouTube channels, Substacks, articles, Kindle
books, and Audible audiobooks—into a single place. You consume all of this
content directly in Thoughtful, where your place is automatically saved. This
content exists in endless quantity on the Internet, but it’s usually drowned
out by low-value junk, and spread out in many places, which makes it difficult
to find and focus on. When you open Thoughtful, we make it easy to focus on
the content that you value most in the moment, whether you want to read,
watch, or listen, and whether you want to focus on (in our CEO’s case) tech,
philosophy, or snowboarding. The secret sauce is that no matter the context,
in Thoughtful there’s always something that’s both interesting and good for
you. Learn more about Thoughtful here. Who we’re looking for We’re looking for
engineer #2—a senior engineer to take on significant areas of ownership across
our native iOS and Mac apps (Objective-C, Swift, UIKit), backend services
(TypeScript, NodeJS), and web app (Express). Working alongside Brian, Alex,
and our designer, you’ll be involved with (or have the opportunity to lead)
every step of product development—from ideation, planning, and architecture to
implementation, testing, launch, and maintenance. Our mission is
ambitious—building a future where digital downtime is dominated not by
reactivity and toxicity, but learning, growth, and going deeper on your
interests—so we’re looking for candidates that are intensely passionate about
this work and dedicated to bringing it to life. This is a technical leadership
role, and has potential to evolve in to a CTO role. Qualifications 5+ years
experience developing high-quality, scalable software with at least two or
more of: Objective-C, Swift, Typescript, NodeJS Strong understanding of
object-oriented design, asynchronous networking, large-scale databases (like
NoSQL), and backend<->client versioning Excellent communication skills Driven,
capable of leading projects, prioritizing, organizing, and directing your work
Interested in frequent in-person collaboration. Candidates will either work at
our office full-time, or commit to a hybrid model where they spend ~3 days at
our office working in person with us every 6-8 weeks (all expenses paid). Pay
& benefits Base salary between $105,000 and $150,000 depending on skills,
experience, and location Equity between 0.75% and 3%. Our most recent
valuation (seed) was $18M as of June 2024. Competitive, high-quality medical,
dental, and vision insurance 401(k) Beautiful, modern office with ergonomic
workspaces overlooking the Rocky Mountains in Lehi, Utah We’re a calm startup:
we focus intensely and have ambitious goals, but we also take advantage of the
amazing environment we work in, with occasional morning
snowboarding/skiing/hiking when we can. We play the long-game and know that
healthy, happy people do the best work.
