Founding Engineer

About Intro

Intro is a dating app where LGBTQ South Asians find love. Built by Queer Desis in New York for the 100 million queer South Asians around the globe who deserve a space of their own. Our mission: help 1 million Queer Desis find love by the end of 2026. We’re creating a safer, more intentional, and community-driven dating experience — one that celebrates identity, culture, and connection.

The Role

We’re looking for a Founding Full-Stack Engineer who thrives in 0→1 environments. You’ll take ownership of architecture, design, and execution across backend, web, and mobile (iOS/Android) — helping shape both the product and the culture of the company.

You’ll be joining at the earliest stage — working directly with the founding team on everything from feature development to infrastructure decisions and product strategy.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build scalable backend systems (APIs, data models, authentication, messaging, matching).
• Lead development across web and mobile clients (React, React Native, Swift/Kotlin).
• Collaborate on product design and iterate quickly on user feedback.
• Set up CI/CD, testing, and monitoring pipelines.
• Help define the tech culture, best practices, and early engineering team standards.
• Contribute to early hiring and mentorship as we grow.

You Might Be a Great Fit If You

• Care deeply about building for LGBTQ and South Asian communities.
• Are motivated by impact and ownership, not just code.
• Thrive in ambiguity and love solving real user problems fast.
• Want to help define the technical and cultural DNA of a mission-driven company.

Interview Process

1. AI Screen – Initial automated technical and culture-fit assessment.
2. Web Challenge – Build a small feature for the web app to demonstrate frontend and full-stack skills.
3. iOS Challenge – Build a small feature for the iOS app to showcase mobile development and design sense.
4. Android Challenge – Build a small feature for the Android app to highlight cross-platform depth.
5. Founder Chat – Meet with the Founder to discuss vision, values, and long-term fit.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary.
• Full-time (40 hours/week) with flexible hours.
• Opportunity to shape a product with global cultural impact.
• Work directly with the founding team building something that truly matters.

JOB PURPOSE   

A Senior Associate Java WCS Technologist is considered as a senior contributor for complex modules of work by bringing deep core technology expertise and relevant business subject matter expertise to the table.  

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES   

• Sr. Associate, Technology plays a significant role during the design and implementation of the technological solution for our clients.   
• A Sr. Associate, Technology is involved in ensuring a quality technical design that satisfies the business requirements of the client.   

• A Sr. Associate, Technology is often involved in package evaluations and recommendations, communicating the technological details of the project to the business users and workshops with the clients. Sr. Associate, Technology also participates in gathering business requirements and assessing existing architectures and resources.  
• Sr. Associate, Technology provides leadership to the team by taking responsibility for a specific component or track of the project architecture.  By taking on this level of responsibility, a Sr. Associate, Technology spends more time overseeing the tasks required to implement a solution rather than performing the tasks directly.  This includes planning, estimation, resource management, issue resolution and quality assurance.  A Sr. Associate, Technology is also responsible for coordinating and communicating with the other tracks and disciplines involved in the project.   
• In performing the essential functions of this role, the work is fast-paced, moderately noisy and team-based.  Additionally, frequent overnight travel is required.  
• Prepares the technical design of the more complex technology components within the module (one or more of client/web presentation tier, server tier, data access and data model, integration component, package function customization)  
• Participates in and in some cases drives design reviews of other modules and provides insightful comments to improve the design quality and design conformance to standards  

• Assists the architect in articulating the pros and cons of using a certain technology stack/package or component or design pattern versus another to the clients and project team and drives selection of technologies, designs to come up with the optimal architecture  
• Implements slice of application (EAR) and proofs of concept (spike solution) to prove any new technologies or integration scenarios in the module  
• For package implementations, aids the Architect of the project to perform the gap analysis between business requirements and the package features and design the configuration, customizations, extensions, interfaces required to meet the requirements  
• Provides innovative solutions to project level technical issues  
• Critiques a design created by another designer and helps identify design and performance improvements  

• Interacts with a set of clients (client senior developers and architects) to create technology specifications from business requirements for one of the modules within the project  
• In some scenarios, collaborates with client developers to design, build, test and deploy the module components and integrate with the rest of the modules  
• Raises and drives to closure with the client any technical design and implementation issues in the module and also in the interfaces and interactions with other modules  
• Estimates the implementation and deployment of the module based on design architecture, testing strategy and overall project plan  
• Assists the architect in coming up with the overall estimates for the project along with any key risks and issues and their mitigation  

• Reports progress and issues to the Manager in a timely manner. In particular, to relay issues that might impact on quality or the ability to deliver to timescales or estimates  
• Works with team on the development of standards, processes and procedures related to application security, upgrade management, capacity planning, application deployment, performance monitoring/tuning, and failover and disaster recovery  
• Mentors the team on the best techniques to debug and troubleshoot design and implementation defects and issues  
• Shares point of view on technology stack, package and latest technology and business trends in one or more relevant areas (e.g. eCommerce, Content Management).  
• Documents the technical design using UML, suitable design patterns in the form of technical design narrative, object models, sequence diagrams, collaboration diagrams  

SKILL REQUIREMENTS  

Experience in: J2EE - Application Servers, Java - ORM, Java - Spring Framework, Core  

Java, SQL Development Languages, Java - Web, Presentation Frameworks, Java - Messaging  

Implementation, Java Web Services, Planning/ Execution & Tracking, Scoping and  

Estimating, Data Modeling, High Availability and Failover Applications, High Throughput / Transaction Application, Logical Architecture Design, OOAD and UML, Package / Vendor Selection, Performance / Capacity Planning, Application, Security.  

Ability to abstract detail into larger (repeatable) patterns, familiarity with user centered analysis and evaluation techniques   

Understanding of the project life cycle process to effectively be able to manage a sub- 

Business Knowledge:  Domain experience on Enterprise data warehouse would be a plus.  

Personal Attributes: a. Strong and innovative approach to problem solving and finding solutions b. Excellent communicator (written and verbal, formal and informal) c. Flexible and proactive/self-motivated working style with strong personal ownership of problem resolution d. Ability to multi-task under pressure and work independently with minimal supervision. e. Ability to prioritize when under pressure  

EXPERIENCE   

2-8 years  

EDUCATION  

Full Time Bachelor’s / Master’s degree (Science or Engineering preferred)  

Role Overview:

We are seeking an experienced Full-Stack Tech Lead with a strong background in PHP and Angular development to head a small technical team (~3 ppl). This tech lead job will have a large amount of time spent on coding.

General Requirements:

• An undergraduate or graduate degree in a relevant field
• 5+ years of experience in full-stack development

Key Technical Skills:

• Architecture: Expertise in design and implementation
• Front-End Development: Strong in Angular
• Back-End Development: Extensive experience in Node.js and PHP
• Databases: Strong in MySQL
• Version Control: Strong experience with Git
• Cloud: Strong experience with AWS

Soft Skills:

• Fluent in English
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Strong team player with the ability to work well in a group
• Comfortable with delegating tasks and ensuring the delivery of high-quality code from the entire team in a timely manner

• Provide development and maintenance services for .NET application.
• Develop and implement best practices for .NET programming.
• Review codes and provide recommendations for improvements.
• Identify the key problems and develop a solution within business and technical context.
• Design, develop, test, review and document .NET application programs.
• Evaluate user requests to determine budget, time, feasibility and compatibility of the new or modified program.
• Analyze technical architecture and provide recommendations.
• Coordinate with users to analyze and propose application solutions to meet business needs.
• Participate in all stages of the software development life cycle including coding, designing and documentation.
• Develop support processes to integrate .NET applications into in-house and third party applications.
• Prepare and maintain system-level, program-level and user-level documentations.
• Act as a technical lead for development and integration of .NET applications.

Responsibilities:

• Concepting, creating, and building websites alongside our graphic design team, including taking designer wireframes and magically turning them into effective code.
• Working through the website development lifecycle to launch.
  Designing user-based interactions through an effective front-end architecture framework.
• Developing functional databases, applications, and servers to support our websites on the back end.
• Developing and designing RESTful services and APIs.
• Determining application responsiveness for consumers.
• Troubleshooting issues and problem-solving as necessary.
• Keeping current with industry trends and developments that can be applied to company needs.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science.
• Expertise with MEAN stack
• Fluent in CSS (Foundation or Bootstrap), JavaScript, and HTML, with an understanding of CSS preprocessors including Sass and LESS.
• Strong knowledge of Linux, JavaScript, and MongoDB with working knowledge of SQL Database and PHP.
• Experience with JS-based tools including Bower, Grunt, and Gulp.
• Working experience as a Full Stack Developer.
• Experience working with server technologies including Apache, ISS, Node.js, and Nginx.
• Experience in API design and development.
• Understanding of libraries including Backbone.js and jQuery.
• Experience with Docker, AWS, CI/CD, Jira is a plus.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, system design, and algorithms.
• Excellent communication skills, with strong attention to detail and a head for problem-solving.
• Skilled at working in tandem with a team, or unsupervised as required.

As technical lead, you will be responsible for complete product development including 

1. Identification of technology
2. Shaping engineering practices
3. Hiring engineering team
4. Shaping up the product