Ready to build the next generation of AI-native consumer experience?
Text.ai is a consumer-first AI native company, revolutionizing how people communicate in group chats.
We're pioneering an entirely new category of consumer AI products that millions will use daily. We are building the first AI-native communication platform, where every conversation becomes intelligent, collaborative, and effortless. We're reimagining how humans and AI work together from first principles.
While everyone else builds individual AI assistants, we're solving the hardest problem in consumer AI: making multiple humans happy simultaneously through true group intelligence.
Our AI doesn't just respond to prompts. It stays, learns, thinks, and adapts to make every human connection better. From planning the perfect group trip to finding restaurants everyone will love, we transform chaotic group coordination into effortless collaboration.
The future isn't prompt → response.
It's presence → understanding → creation.
We are backed by Y-Combinator, SV Angel, and angel investors from Shopify and Tencent, with founders from Ex-Tesla, Eventbrite, Amazon, & McKinsey.
We're hiring a Founding Full-Stack Engineer (Frontend/Backend) to be the technical owner and driver of our new app experience. This is a very hands-on role focused primarily on React Native (iOS and Android), along with Backend (Python) integration. You will be joining the founding team and taking the lead on building our mobile app from the ground up, while also contributing to backend integration tasks when needed.
This isn't your first native app launch. You've done this before, you are a seasoned engineer and know how to ship bug-free, polished, and high-performing apps. You'll work closely with design, product, and engineering stakeholders to build intuitive and beautiful experiences, FAST.
What makes this role extraordinary:
We've found something real. Organic word-of-mouth growth, high user engagement, and genuine user love with millions of messages transacted in just a few months.
Y Combinator, SV Angel, and angels from Shopify and Tencent. Founding team from Tesla, Eventbrite, Amazon, and McKinsey.
You'll work on problems that don't have Stack Overflow answers. Group AI coordination, social preference learning, multi-participant optimization - this is frontier territory.
This position offers:
This isn't a FAANG role where you'll optimize conversion rates by 0.1%. This is your chance to architect the foundational technology and new experience for how humans and AI will collaborate for the next decade.
We're looking for engineers who want to build something that matters, ship something people love, and create technology that makes human connection more effortless and joyful.
When you apply, please include:
We're building the first group chat with social skills.
While everyone else is stuck with boring individual chatbots, we've cracked the impossible: Alfi reads the room, understands each person, and creates custom intelligence for every group chat.
Alfi is your new social friend. The one who remembers everything, plans effortlessly, and keeps the crew together.
Here's what that looks like:
We're in the middle of a quiet shift. Gen Z is leaving broadcast social media. They're retreating to group chats, smaller, more intentional and personal spaces where they're honestly themselves.
But group chats are also where plans go to die. Someone has to be "the planner" or nothing happens.
We believe the group chat is the real social network. Where the funniest moments and real conversations happen in real time. With Alfi, we hope to bring you together more expressively, a lot more often.
This technology will bring humanity closer than it's ever been before. Not replace connection, deepen it. That's the future we're building toward.
Salary
$100,000 - $150,000
Equity
0.2% - 1%
Location
Remote
Experience
3+ years
Last stage
Seed
Investors
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.