About the Role:
We are an early-stage technology startup building a complex, multi-sided digital product. This role sits at the intersection of product thinking and engineering, with full ownership over how ideas translate into real, scalable systems.
You will work closely with the founder and an external development agency, owning end-to-end product logic, technical decisions, and quality. This is a foundational role for someone who enjoys shaping systems from first principles and wants meaningful ownership in what they build.
This is not a pure coding role and not a people-management role. It is a build-the-right-foundations role.
What You Will Do
1. Product & System Ownership
Translate product concepts into clear system flows, data models, APIs, and state transitions
Define acceptance criteria, failure scenarios, and test expectations for features before development begins
Ensure product intent is accurately reflected in implementation not just happy-path behavior
Define and validate logic for user journeys, permissions, workflows, and edge cases
2. Technical Architecture & Decision-Making
Review and shape backend architecture, mobile-facing system design, API contracts, and data structures
Identify scalability challenges, logic gaps, and security or payment-related issues early
Make pragmatic technical decisions suitable for an early-stage product
3. Engineering Oversight & Quality Control
Act as the technical owner while working with an external development agency
Review code quality, implementation correctness, and feature completeness
Review implementations for logic completeness, edge cases, and real-world usage scenarios
Push back on shortcuts, assumptions, and poor architectural decisions
Ensure clean documentation and handovers
4. Hands-on Problem Solving
Read, review, debug, refactor, and modify code when required
Implement targeted improvements or fixes for critical flows when necessary
Who You Are
58 years of strong engineering experience
Experience working on mobile-first products
Strong understanding of mobile app architecture, API-driven frontends, state management, performance, and release cycles
Comfortable reviewing and guiding development for iOS/Android apps (native or cross-platform)
Solid understanding of backend systems, APIs, and system design
Product-minded with a strong focus on correctness, edge cases, and long-term impact
Comfortable working in ambiguity and evolving requirements
Ownership-driven and detail-oriented
(Hands-on mobile app coding experience is a plus)
What This Role Is Not
Not a pure coding role
Not a people-management role
Not a maintenance role
Why Join
High ownership and real impact
Direct collaboration with the founder
Opportunity to shape a product from first principles
Long-term growth into senior technical leadership

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