Founding Full Stack Mobile 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 riskTechnical direction across the app: architecture, state, navigation, offline behavior, performanceThe interaction layer: gestures, bottom sheets, transitions, and animation that hold up at 60fps on a mid-range AndroidCode quality across the team: review, standards, and keeping three people from building three different appsRelease management: builds, TestFlight, store submission, review, and the second submission after the first one gets rejectedInstrumentation and crash monitoring, so we know what is actually happening after launchWhat we are looking for 5+ years building mobile apps end to end, including backend and API work, not just client-sideShipped consumer apps to the App Store and Google Play with live links we can download todayDeep React Native experience, or deep native experience plus a clear case for the stack you would use to hit a November launchReal strength in gesture handling and animation. This is not decoration for us. Probe questions will go hereComfort with REST, WebSockets, push notifications, and a relational databaseYou have owned a release cycle, including a store rejection, and know how to get through it fastYou have coordinated work across a small team of engineers and can review someone else's code without slowing them downFluent English and at least two hours of daily overlap with US Central timeHigh ownership. You decide, you build, you tell us what brokeNice to have Consumer social product experience, especially with an 18 to 30 audienceDesign sensibility strong enough to push back on a specExperience being an early engineer on a product that reached real usersHow we hire A 15 minute video call. Unscripted, no slide deckA technical deep dive on something you actually built. Bring an app you shipped and walk us through its architectureTraditional data structures and algorithms questionsA brief assessment of current trends and developments in mobile technology.A reference call with a direct manager or founder you worked withTerms Fully remote, independent contractor agreement, paid monthly in USDCompensation is competitive for senior remote work and set on experience. Tell us your number30 day paid trial period with a clean exit on both sidesFlat team. You are a peer to the founders and to the two developers you build alongside. You own the release, not their performance reviewsTo apply Send us: Live store links to two apps you shipped. Tell us which parts were yoursThree sentences on the hardest technical problem you solved on one of themYour monthly rate and your earliest start dateApplications without live store links will not be reviewed.