Technical Founding Engineer

Compensation: $85k – $130k • 0.55% – 1.0%

Living context. A persistent preference layer, owned by you

We're building the thing that should have existed before any of them.

Can't say much publicly yet, but: your personal data should work for you, not against you. Not as a tagline. As an architectural decision baked into every layer of the system.
If "privacy-first" makes you roll your eyes because nobody means it, good. We'd get along.

The product is built, patents are filed. We're looking for a founding engineer to help lead and ship it. We're building the future of personalized intelligence. We're early and building fast.

You'll be a Founding Engineer on the team. You'll ship product end to end, shape the architecture, and own entire systems. This is not a "pick up tickets" job. You'll be in the room for every product, design, and infra decision we make.

What you'll work on:

• Building the preference architecture and models: signal extraction, decay, provenance and portability
• The protocol layer: how any AI or system plugs in, with consent
• Consumer product surfaces: onboarding, chat, insights and planning
• Connector pipelines: Third-party integrations, OAuth, APIs and MCPs

Stack TypeScript, Next.js, Fastify, Postgres (Drizzle), BullMQ, Redis, Turborepo.

You

• Ideally 4+ years shipping production software, at least one stint as a senior or staff engineer at a fast-moving company, but we will speak to passionate excellent engineers from all backgrounds
• Full-stack by default, opinionated about product, comfortable in ambiguity
• You care about the shape of the product, not just the code
• Bonus: you've worked on personal data, agent infra, graph systems, or consumer AI

Why join

• Founding equity, real ownership
• Ship to users from week one
• You'll help define a category, not iterate on someone else's roadmap
• Small team, high trust, no process theater
• Based in SF, full remote must be US based with US authorization to work.

Apply with a short note on why wiive, and one thing you've built that you're proud of.