### **About The Role 🪐**
Studyverse.live is the Virtual Library. We are building the largest vertical
social network for the 1B+ students around the world.
Studyverse is currently only available on web. We are looking for a Founding
Mobile Engineer (Employee #3) to co-lead development of our mobile app along
with our CTO.
If you're excited by the opportunity to get in early at a fast-growing startup
and build something meaningful for 100s of millions of students, we recommend
you keep reading.
### **Backed By The Best 💰**
We've raised over $2 million from top consumer VCs and renowned angel
investors. Here’s a few of them:
* Greylock
* Bling Capital (Lyft, Palantir, Instacart, Square)
* Goodwater Capital (Tiktok, Care/of, Citizen, Monzo)
* Nikita Bier, Founder of TBH and Gas
* Dennis Yang, Founder of Udemy
* Austin Rief, Founder of MorningBrew
### **What you 'll be doing 🌟**
* Lead development of Studyverse for iOS along with our CTO
* Build pixel-perfect, buttery smooth UIs
* Own features and experiments from inception to implementation.
* Work closely with beta customers and customer support to define the product roadmap and refine the user experience
* Help assess and recruit future engineers
Our stack: Node.js, GraphQL (Apollo), Redis, MongoDB, Typescript, React
(Next.js), TailwindCSS, Heroku
### **Who we’re looking for 🙌**
* **Senior** **Mobile experience:** 5+ years working with Objective-C, Swift, UIKit, or Kotlin
* **Product focused:** You take pride in building buttery, elegant, high-performing mobile products.
* **Entrepreneurial spirit:** Experience as a founder and/or at an early stage startup (+1 for Consumer Social or EdTech)
* **Work Ethic:** We work hard here. That’s because we know how much impact our product has on our students’ lives and how big the opportunity is to build the world’s virtual library. We’re looking for someone who is just as passionate about seizing this opportunity as we are.
### **Who We Are 🚀**
Eric Drymer (Cofounder + CEO) previously founded an education non-profit at
17, is Ex-growth at Founders Forum, and Ex-SVB (rip). Christoph Knes
(Cofounder + CTO) is a 4x founder and ML PhD who sold his first internet
company at 19 and scaled his most recent company to >$1M in ARR.
Studyverse focuses on Social Media, Education Technology, Edtech, and
Consumer. Their company has offices in New York City. They have a small team
that's between 1-10 employees. To date, Studyverse has raised $2.05M of
funding; their latest round was closed on June 2022.
You can view their website at <https://studyverse.live> or find them on
[Twitter](https://twitter.com/the_studyverse) and
[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/thestudyverse/).
