Text.ai
Alfi - your group chat with social skills to bring friends closer
What Text.ai does
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: - Book restaurants together, with Yelp built in, directly in the chat. No more "where should we go?" spirals. Reserve instantly. - Create images with your friends: drop your crew into funny hats, wild scenes, anything you can dream up. Multiplayer image gen, first of its kind. - Social calendar: upcoming hangs, all in one place. Everyone on the same page. - Group Wrapped: who's the chattiest? Top inside jokes? Now you'll know. - Reminders & Memory: Alfi remembers your spots, your preferences, and nudges you to actually hang out. 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.
1 open role
What the role involves
Founding Full-Stack Engineer 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. The Role 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: Category Creation: You're not iterating on existing patterns. You're inventing new ones that will define how humans and AI collaborate. Massive Scale Potential: Early product-market fit signals with explosive organic growth. Your work will impact millions of daily conversations. Technical Innovation: Implementing AI capabilities that don't exist anywhere else, group preference learning, multi-participant coordination, social facilitation algorithms. Founding Impact: Direct influence on product direction, technical architecture, and company culture. What You'll Build Own the Mobile Platform (Primary Focus) Lead development of our React Native app from ground zero to millions of users Create seamless group collaboration experiences impossible on any other platform Build AI-native interfaces that feel magical, not mechanical Ship polished, performant experiences across iOS and Android Shape Our Technical Future Architect mobile backend (Python) integration for real-time group AI coordination Implement cutting-edge GenAI features, you'll be implementing AI features that don't exist anywhere else. Design systems that scale from thousands to millions of concurrent conversations Become a true full-stack powerhouse working across our entire technical ecosystem Collaborate Across Disciplines Partner with design and product to bring completely new interaction patterns to life Work directly with founders on product strategy and technical roadmap Help build the engineering culture and practices for our growing team Who You Are Technical Excellence 4+ years shipping React Native apps that users love, you know what separates good from great in mobile UX Full-stack capability with backend integration experience (Python/modern web stack) Consumer product instincts, you obsess over performance, polish, and user delight Senior ownership mindset, you set direction, drive decisions, and own outcomes Startup DNA Thrives in ambiguity, comfortable building new things without established playbooks Ships relentlessly, measures iteration cycles in
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