We’re hiring our first engineer at Kinsome We’re looking for the right person
to join our tiny (< 5 person) team with the mission of bringing grandkids and
grandparents closer together, even when they’re miles apart. This is an
opportunity to have an outsized impact on our product, our culture, and to
build something meaningful for families. Scrappiness and dedication to our
mission are the traits that will set candidates apart at this stage; years of
experience or specific skills are far less important to us right now. We need
someone who is excited to get in the trenches with us and do everything
possible to help us execute on the Kinsome vision. If you, or an engineer you
know, thrives in the uncertainty and chaos of early stage startup life and
likes to move fast, please reach out to us at [email protected]. Why join
Kinsome Work on a meaningful problem. We’re working to build stronger bonds
between grandkids and grandparents, to help fight some of the forces leading
to the break up of intergenerational families. We’re also lucky to have raised
funding from friends and Angels that believe in our team and are strongly
aligned with this mission. Move fast. Our only goal at this stage is to build
a product that families love, which means lots of experimentation and lots of
shipping. Solve difficult product challenges. We’re trying to reach kids and
seniors—two groups who are typically underserved by tech. This comes with a
lot of fun, novel design and accessibility challenges. Own the product. For a
team our size (you’ll be one of two engineers, along with yours truly), we all
take full responsibility and ownership for what we build. Collaborate. We
believe building great products is a team sport, and we try to look for
thoughtful, curious, and low-ego collaborators. Use cutting-edge tech. We
believe that some of the recent advancements in AI are an enabling technology
to bridge the divide between grandkids and grandparents. As a new company,
we’re also using a small, modern tech stack (React Native, NextJS, Supabase)
which you would help shape over time. Things you should know It’s a leap of
faith. Startups are incredibly hard and, as an angel-backed startup, we need
to be extremely capital efficient until we find true product-market fit.
Compensation will skew towards equity compared to the broader tech market–we
believe in sharing success as a team. We’re based in Boston. We’ve spent most
of my career working remotely, however, we feel that collaborating in-person
gives us the best chance to spark new ideas and helps to smooth out some of
the emotional roller-coaster of trying to build something new. We’ve got an
awesome office space in Beacon Hill, where we work together a few times a
week. Kinsome focuses on Mobile, Social Media, Social Games, Families, and
Education Technology. Their company has offices in Boston. They have a small
team that's between 1-10 employees. To date, Kinsome has raised $1M of
funding; their latest round was closed on March 2024 at a valuation of $6M.
You can view their website at https://kinsome.com/ or find them on LinkedIn.
