Founding Software Engineer

Senior Full Stack Mobile Developer

Remote · Contract (full time) · Works with a US founding team in Nashville (UTC-5) · Start: immediately

About Dipidi

Dipidi is a mobile app for the way people actually make plans. Most social apps are built for broadcasting. Dipidi is built for the group chat that never turns into an actual Saturday. We are a small, funded-track founding team launching in Nashville first, with a real community already waiting on the other side of the launch.

We keep the product details close until later in the process. What we can say now: the app is consumer, social, mobile-first, and the interaction design is the product. If you have ever cared more than your PM did about how a sheet drags, you will like this build.

The role

You own delivery. Three developers are building this app, and you are the one accountable for it reaching the App Store on time and in good shape.

That means you are building alongside them, not managing from a distance. You set the technical direction, make the calls that unblock people, and answer for the release. You work directly with the founders. There is no layer between you and the product.

We are launching in November.

That is the whole shape of this job. We are looking for someone who has carried a real app across a real deadline before and knows the difference between a demo and a shipped product.

What you will own

• Delivery.

  The November launch date is yours. Scope calls, sequencing, and telling us early when something is at risk

• Technical direction across the app: architecture, state, navigation, offline behavior, performance
• The interaction layer: gestures, bottom sheets, transitions, and animation that hold up at 60fps on a mid-range Android
• Code quality across the team: review, standards, and keeping three people from building three different apps
• Release management: builds, TestFlight, store submission, review, and the second submission after the first one gets rejected
• Instrumentation and crash monitoring, so we know what is actually happening after launch

What we are looking for

• 5+ years building mobile apps end to end

  , including backend and API work, not just client-side

• Shipped consumer apps to the App Store and Google Play

  with live links we can download today

• Deep React Native experience, or deep native experience plus a clear case for the stack you would use to hit a November launch
• Real strength in gesture handling and animation. This is not decoration for us. Probe questions will go here
• Comfort with REST, WebSockets, push notifications, and a relational database
• You have owned a release cycle, including a store rejection, and know how to get through it fast
• You have coordinated work across a small team of engineers and can review someone else’s code without slowing them down
• Fluent English and at least two hours of daily overlap with US Central time
• High ownership. You decide, you build, you tell us what broke

Nice to have

• Consumer social product experience, especially with an 18 to 30 audience
• Design sensibility strong enough to push back on a spec
• Experience being an early engineer on a product that reached real users

How we hire

1. A 15 minute video call. Unscripted, no slide deck
2. A technical deep dive on something you actually built. Bring an app you shipped and walk us through its architecture
3. A brief assessment of current trends and developments in mobile technology.
4. A reference call with a direct manager or founder you worked with

Terms

• Fully remote, independent contractor agreement, paid monthly in USD
• Compensation is competitive for senior remote work and set on experience. Tell us your number
• 30 day paid trial period with a clean exit on both sides
• Flat team. You are a peer to the founders and to the two developers you build alongside. You own the release, not their performance reviews

To apply

Send us:

1. Live store links

   to two apps you shipped. Tell us which parts were yours

2. Three sentences on the hardest technical problem you solved on one of them
3. Your monthly rate and your earliest start date

Applications without live store links will not be reviewed.