Founding Staff Engineer
Remote, India. Full time.
₹65 lakh to ₹1 cr. depending on experience.
Founding level equity, sized for an engineering lead rather than an ordinary hire.

The business

We are two founders with three exits between us. We have raised more than $15m from investors including LocalGlobe, and our companies have generated more than $50m across those exits. We build consumer products, and this one is funded from our own profits. There is no VC timeline, no fundraise we need to close, and no plan to raise external capital, so we can build for the long term without the usual pressure to keep financing the business. Salary is top of market and reliable, with a defined path as the business grows.

The product

You step into a book as a character. You decide what you do and say, and the story moves around you. The people in it remember what happened, want things of their own, and do not always do what you expect.

Millions of people already spend hours a day talking to fictional characters, but the products they use are chat windows with a costume on.



Nothing remembers properly, nothing builds, and nothing pays off. A story here may run for hundreds of turns. Different characters have to remember different things, relationships have to change, old events have to matter again at the right moment, and the story has to stay surprising without drifting. All of that has to disappear behind an experience that feels like reading. Nobody has done it well yet, because it is a hard AI problem and a hard product problem at the same time.

The role

You are the first engineer. You work directly with the founders and the founding product designer to build the product, take it to market, and improve it quickly from what real readers do. You will ship the whole product, from the database to the screen the reader sees, and you will use coding agents to do most of the typing. Your time goes on the things agents are still bad at: knowing what should be built, designing the e

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