Job Title: Founding Engineer (Front-End Focus)
Location: Hybrid / New York City
About Us:
We are a venture-backed startup that recently raised our pre-seed round, building a personalized sports media content platform. Our platform leverages strategic partnerships to deliver engaging, tailored sports content to users, and we're gearing up for a public launch. Our CEO, a seasoned entrepreneur with a successful exit in the sports content space under his belt, and our CTO, with deep expertise in machine learning, data engineering, and cloud infrastructure, are looking for a talented Founding Engineer to join the team as our third full-time employee. This role would start in a remote capacity with the understanding that the company would eventually be headquartered in New York City.
The Role:
As a Founding Engineer (Front-End), you’ll be an integral part of our early team, shaping the front-end experience of our platform and contributing to the overall product development. You’ll work directly with our CTO to build a seamless and engaging user interface using Expo and React Native. While your primary focus will be on front-end development, versatility is a plus—we work with Ruby on Rails for backend services and Python for data pipelines and machine learning, so experience or interest in these areas is highly desirable.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead the development of our mobile application’s front-end, ensuring a smooth, responsive, and engaging user experience.
- Collaborate with the CTO on architecture and product design, bringing your unique perspective to shape the direction of our technology.
- Build and iterate on new features rapidly, with a keen eye on user feedback and experience.
- Contribute to backend development using Ruby on Rails and support Python-based data pipelines and ML models, as needed.
- Play a key role in our success as we move toward the public launch, influencing the technical direction and the future of our engineering team.
- Prepare for future leadership opportunities, as we envision this role growing into a larger technical leadership position over time.
What We’re Looking For:
- Proven experience and expertise (4+ years) in front-end development using Expo/React Native.
- Familiarity with backend development using Ruby on Rails and Python for data pipelines or machine learning is a big plus. Extensive experience in this area is not required.
- Comfort working in a startup environment: self-driven, proactive, and adaptable.
- Curiosity, creativity, and a strong desire to build something new and impactful.
- Experience or interest in cloud engineering and scaling.
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Desire to lead and manage engineering teams as the company grows.
Why Join Us?
- Be a core member of a fast-growing, venture-backed startup with big ambitions.
- Work alongside a CEO with a proven track record and a CTO with extensive technical expertise.
- Significant Equity compensation to share in the company’s success.
- Opportunity to build and shape a product that will redefine sports media.
- Future leadership potential as the company scales.