Helium Verified
Blockchain, IoT, Telecommunications, Wireless, Web3
Founding Mobile Engineer
San Francisco, California, United StatesOnsiteFull Time$125,000–$200,000 /yrPosted 2 months agoHidden Gem · YC Startup
Role summary
Helium is seeking a Founding Mobile Engineer to build and own the mobile SDKs for their AI-powered software generation platform. This role involves developing and launching new features, improving SDK reliability, speed, and usability, and gathering customer feedback. The ideal candidate has a strong foundation in mobile app development (iOS/React Native), experience with SDKs and in-app purchases, and a customer-obsessed mindset. This is a hands-on, in-person role requiring significant ownership and problem-solving skills within a fast-growing, well-funded startup environment.
**Helium is building Self-Improving Software**: AI that automatically generates & tests new software experiences to lift revenue. We’re…
* **Talent-dense** (8 people, 6 engineers, 75% ex-founders)
* **Well-funded** ($6M from Google & Leaders from OpenAI)
* **Fast-growing** (Serving tens of millions of AI experiences per day for top consumer companies).
AI has created a once-in-history opportunity, and we’re here to win, because of that…
* **🔴 We work in-person in our SF office 6 days per week (Mon-Sat). 🔴**
# **What You’ll Do**
You’ll help build our platform to auto-generate mobile experiences. Specifically, you’ll be in charge of big chunks of our mobile SDKs.
* Own the iOS/React Native mobile experience for Helium customers
* Launch new features (e.g. remote onboarding experiences) to help our customers automate mobile optimization
* Come up with new ways to improve SDK reliability, speed, and usability, and work directly with customers to get feedback and improve their experince.
* Own documentation, Release maintenance, CI/CD, Testing, Google Play/Android billing
* Wearing a lot more hats than listed above 👷.
# **What We’re Looking For**
* **Keen problem solving skills**: you are able to cut down ambiguous problems down to first principles and deliver a working solution.
* **Strong mobile eng foundation**: You have plenty of experience building mobile apps on the App Store, and using SDKs (RevenueCat, Amplitude, Segment, Stripe, Firebase)
* Experience working with Apple In-App purchases.
* **Owning features end to end**: you’ll write your own PRDs/quick specs when necessary, and you test your features end to end to make sure they work and satisfy the requirements
* **Customer obsession**: you think deeply about the devex of SDKs, you answer questions, jump on issues, and use customer feedback to build excellent products.
**Nice To Haves**
* Experience working on mobile SDKs (release maintenance, docs, etc)
* Experience with Flutter and Android app development
* Experience with native modules/bridging logic
* Experience working on open source, or non-mobile experiences
* Experience working on mobile webview tech (if you’ve figured out a cool way to make Android webviews feel almost native, get in touch)
* Experience working with mobile analytics tools (Amplitude, Segment, Statsig, etc)
# **Reasons This Role Might Not Be A Fit**
* You want to work 9-5
* You avoid Cursor or AI coding tools.
* You can only operate on well-written specs, or feel uncomfortable designing new experiences from scratch.
* You don’t want to talk to customers.
# **Our stack:**
* Next.js (React/Typescript), Zustand
* AI (vercel) SDK
* Tailwind/Shadcn
* Supabase
* Clickhouse
* Golang/[Fly.io](http://Fly.io)
* Mobile: Swift, Flutter, Expo, Android
Requires Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science or similar fields.
* **Talent-dense** (8 people, 6 engineers, 75% ex-founders)
* **Well-funded** ($6M from Google & Leaders from OpenAI)
* **Fast-growing** (Serving tens of millions of AI experiences per day for top consumer companies).
AI has created a once-in-history opportunity, and we’re here to win, because of that…
* **🔴 We work in-person in our SF office 6 days per week (Mon-Sat). 🔴**
# **What You’ll Do**
You’ll help build our platform to auto-generate mobile experiences. Specifically, you’ll be in charge of big chunks of our mobile SDKs.
* Own the iOS/React Native mobile experience for Helium customers
* Launch new features (e.g. remote onboarding experiences) to help our customers automate mobile optimization
* Come up with new ways to improve SDK reliability, speed, and usability, and work directly with customers to get feedback and improve their experince.
* Own documentation, Release maintenance, CI/CD, Testing, Google Play/Android billing
* Wearing a lot more hats than listed above 👷.
# **What We’re Looking For**
* **Keen problem solving skills**: you are able to cut down ambiguous problems down to first principles and deliver a working solution.
* **Strong mobile eng foundation**: You have plenty of experience building mobile apps on the App Store, and using SDKs (RevenueCat, Amplitude, Segment, Stripe, Firebase)
* Experience working with Apple In-App purchases.
* **Owning features end to end**: you’ll write your own PRDs/quick specs when necessary, and you test your features end to end to make sure they work and satisfy the requirements
* **Customer obsession**: you think deeply about the devex of SDKs, you answer questions, jump on issues, and use customer feedback to build excellent products.
**Nice To Haves**
* Experience working on mobile SDKs (release maintenance, docs, etc)
* Experience with Flutter and Android app development
* Experience with native modules/bridging logic
* Experience working on open source, or non-mobile experiences
* Experience working on mobile webview tech (if you’ve figured out a cool way to make Android webviews feel almost native, get in touch)
* Experience working with mobile analytics tools (Amplitude, Segment, Statsig, etc)
# **Reasons This Role Might Not Be A Fit**
* You want to work 9-5
* You avoid Cursor or AI coding tools.
* You can only operate on well-written specs, or feel uncomfortable designing new experiences from scratch.
* You don’t want to talk to customers.
# **Our stack:**
* Next.js (React/Typescript), Zustand
* AI (vercel) SDK
* Tailwind/Shadcn
* Supabase
* Clickhouse
* Golang/[Fly.io](http://Fly.io)
* Mobile: Swift, Flutter, Expo, Android
Requires Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science or similar fields.
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