### **Job Description**
We are seeking an experienced Full-stack Engineer to build a new GenAI
consumer media platform, working alongside CEO Irfan Manji. Irfan is a veteran
consumer product leader, with a history of successful 0-to-1 product launches
at Meta (Instagram) and Zillow. The company is funded by Heretic Ventures.
The ideal candidate has personally built and launched a consumer product from
scratch and is ready to work with new technologies and architectures in a
flexible, forward-thinking organization that’s always pushing boundaries. This
person will collaborate closely with Design and an ML/AI engineer to bring all
the pieces together for a delightful consumer-facing experience, which they
will code themselves. The ideal founding engineer has experience building
products across the stack and a firm understanding of web frameworks, APIs,
databases, and multiple back-end languages. They have experience with
React/React Native & backend languages (Node or Python preferred).
This is a unique opportunity to help build a billion-dollar company from the
ground up while learning from successful repeat entrepreneurs, product
leaders, and a bench of powerful and experienced mentors and advisors. While
we prefer a permanent founding engineer, we are open to discussing a contract
role - please approach us to discuss.
This is a hybrid role with the expectation of 3 days per week in-person in our
sunny Presidio, SF office. The position is compensated with salary and equity.
Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are
unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
**Responsibilities**
* Collaborate closely with the CEO to translate product strategy into buildable MVP that can be rapidly deployed for testing
* Lead the team in selecting the appropriate technology stack, framework, and tools to enable experimentation
* Own the architecture and development of v1 of working product
* Strategize and articulate tradeoffs between speed and scalability
* Iteratively build and improve on product based on feedback from users
* Think long term to turn MVP into a scalable solution
**Qualifications**
* Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Engineering, or other technical field
* 5+ years of professional full-stack experience building consumer products.
* Full-stack experience building and launching 0-to-1 consumer products from scratch or in a fast-growth organization.
* Experience programming in React native to build responsive applications, including iOS applications.
* Has experience managing the end-to-end technology stack of a new product (front end, backend, cloud, CI/CD)
* Expertise in programming languages (e.g., Typescript, JavaScript), modern web frameworks (e.g., React), and cloud service providers (e.g., AWS, GCP)
* Basic experience with Python to engage with AI models
* Superb communication, collaboration, and execution skills
* _Nice to Haves
*_* Experience or interest in hiring engineers and managing a team of engineers
* Understanding of leading AI/ML models (text to image models) and tools (e.g., PyTorch)
Inspy focuses on Mobile, Digital Media, Artificial Intelligence, and Content
Discovery. Their company has offices in San Francisco. They have a small team
that's between 1-10 employees.
You can view their website at <https://inspy.ai>
