Technology Lead
Take ownership of technology and continued product development for an existing consumer cooking platform. Work with the founder on hands-on engineering, technical direction, and preparing the platform for growth. This early-stage, equity-based role currently has no salary.
Responsibilities
- Develop and improve core product features.
- Own technical decisions and architecture.
- Improve platform reliability, performance, and maintainability.
- Work across the mobile app, backend, APIs, and data layer.
- Evaluate and integrate AI capabilities.
- Help define the technical roadmap and establish development practices.
- Potentially help build and lead the engineering team as it grows.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on software development experience and a track record building and maintaining production software.
- Experience with mobile, backend, web, or full-stack development.
- Familiarity with APIs, databases, cloud services, and modern software architecture.
- Ability to understand and pragmatically improve an existing codebase.
- Sound problem-solving and technical judgment; able to work across product, architecture, and implementation.
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with non-technical stakeholders.
- Comfort with changing priorities and incomplete information in an early-stage environment.
- High ownership and interest in helping build the company.
Nice to have
- Experience with consumer applications, AI integrations, social products, recommendation systems, or early-stage startups.
- Experience with the current technology stack: Flutter/Dart, Supabase/PostgreSQL, TypeScript/Deno, Gemini, and related services.
Benefits
- Equity-based compensation; terms depend on responsibility, commitment, experience, and long-term involvement.