About the role
Hi, my name is Gabriel and I'm the founder of Y/n.
Y/n is an app where you can create, share, and play interactive stories. Today, 100K+ teenagers spend 3+ hours a day in the app playing characters in text stories of their own making.
A few facts about why you should join Y/n:
- We launched 8 months ago and are already one of the top books apps in the world (reached #4 app in the App Store this month).
- We serve ~2T tokens (~200M user messages, growing 40% MoM) per month with a team of 3.
- We raised $14M from top VCs.
- My co-founder Eric is a technical genius. He trained the first-ever image editing AI in the world. Before Y/n, I was the founding designer at Substack.
We're looking for a founding full-stack engineer to own most of the app surface and our personalized recommendations infrastructure. This is a role with a lot of ownership across the product!
What we expect from you:
- You’ve built actual infrastructure (not just pushed to Vercel).
- You’ve worked at a startup or built meaningful side projects.
- You’re into fandom, reading, and fanfiction!
- You're based in (or willing to relocate to) San Francisco.
Hollywood authored the dominant stories of the last century. Our mission at Y/n is to create the most entertaining stories of the next one. If creating this entertainment machine sounds interesting, do reach out.
About Y/n
Y/n (yn.app) is an interactive fanfiction platform where users play as the 'Y/N' (your name) protagonist inside community-written and AI-assisted text stories, making choices that affect character responses and plotlines. The app features 1M+ community-generated stories, a multiplayer/social layer, and a deep fanfiction-native identity. Operated by legal entity Emittance Inc., the company participated in Y Combinator's Summer 2023 batch and has grown to 100K+ daily active users averaging 3+ hours per day. The company describes its mission as building 'the entertainment machine' — the most engaging consumer entertainment product in the world.
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Job details
Salary
$120,000 - $300,000
Equity
0.5% - 2%
Location
San Francisco, CA
Experience
2+ years
Funding
Total raised
$14M
Last stage
Seed
Investors
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.