TLDR: We’re a pre-seed startup building the Duolingo for friendship - a new type of social platform where you get a little closer to your friends each day, upleveling your connections through daily games. We’re scrappy, ambitious, and looking for a founding designer to join us on what’s guaranteed to be an extremely exciting journey!

About Braid:

• Braid’s mission is to make forming and maintaining genuine social connection easier through personalized daily play.
• Cofounders Quinn Li O’Shea and Kavi Mathur have 15 years of cumulative experience building consumer and data products, having worked at companies including Zynga, Coatue, OpenStore and Square.
• Braid is in a live beta as of May 1 and has an aggressive product and growth roadmap for the rest of 2024.
• The company is backed by A16Z Speedrun, Pear VC and a handful of impressive angel investors.

About the role:

Braid is looking for a mobile frontend engineer to join our small but growing team to help test, iterate and scale our product. You’ll have significant impact and scope, not just technically but across the product, strategy and team. You’ll lead our React Native app development, across Apple and Android, collaborating closely with our backend engineering lead.

You’re a greet fit if you are someone who is ambitious and scrappy, who loves productive collaboration and can operate or even thrive in ambiguity, and who believes in and embodies a growth and ownership mindset.

Ideally you’re within PST - EST time zones and do not need a VISA sponsorship.

Skills: React Native, JavaScript, Typescript, REST APIs, CI/CD, Git

Responsibilities:

• Apply an ownership mindset to building and maintaining a scalable, efficient, and high quality user experience.
• Contribute to the entire software development lifecycle, from concept to deployment and maintenance.
• Collaborate closely with all members of the team to help us move quickly, continuously test and learn, and ultimately build a remarkable consumer product.
• Continuously explore and implement new technologies to enable us to be best in class, despite our small size, at what we do!