Founding Engineering Lead

career•New York, NY

13d•$180,000 - $220,000

About The Position

Backed by Sequoia Capital, AI Fund & NEA, and founded by the former CEO of Tinder, Meeno helps people build real-world social courage through voice-based practice: 1-minute scenes, instant scoring, and personalized feedback. Not a dating app. Not a companion. Not therapy. IRL reps to help Gen Z meet people IRL.

Requirements

Strong builder who has shipped consumer products.
Comfortable with ambiguity and moving fast without breaking the soul of the product.
Product taste: you care about âfeel,â not just functionality.
Excited by voice, interaction design, and behavior change.
Can operate like a founder: make tradeoffs, set direction, ship.

Nice To Haves

Early adopter of AI-driven development.
Hungry for rapid career progression and societal impact.
Experience with audio/voice pipelines, realtime systems, mobile performance.
History of building unconventional projects (creative tech, experiments, indie builds).
Interest in human behavior, social dynamics, and product psychology.
You empathize with Gen Z loneliness and enjoy meeting people IRL.

Responsibilities

Own the technical foundation of Meeno end-to-end: Web + mobile + backend + data + experimentation
Co-design product vision in close partnership with Meenoâs team: Renate Nyborg, founder/CEO (former Tinder CEO, ex Apple/Headspace) Josh Knox, product lead (founder of Outright, brand and content expert) Andrew Ng, Chairman (AI Fund, founder of Coursera/Google Brain)
Build core AI product primitives: Voice capture/playbackLow-latency interactions Scene framework (content + branching + scoring hooks) Feedback loops and user progression Personalization
Architect for speed + iteration (weekly experiments, not quarterly releases).
Set the engineering bar: Quality, reliability, security/privacy, and shipping culture.
Hire and mentor engineers as we scale: Focus on quality over quantity, leveraging AI and talent to scale while staying lean.

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