Mobile Engineer

About the CompanyKöniva — Seattle-based startup building the future of beverage operations. Our flagship product, Köniva Stock, is a voice-first inventory tool for bars, restaurants, and hospitality groups: staff speak counts aloud while Köniva transcribes, organizes, and syncs in real time — no clipboards, no screens, no re-keying. Our second product, Köniva Taste, is a consumer subscription app for beverage enthusiasts tracking tasting notes. Both apps are live on the App Store.

We're a small, tight-knit founding team. Every person here has a direct impact on the product — and that's intentional.

Term & Opportunity

Initial engagement: 3 months, with strong potential to extend based on product traction and fundraising. We're early-stage and building to prove product-market fit quickly. For exceptional candidates, there is a clear path to transition into a full-time founding engineer role (equity + salary) based on product progress and fundraising.

The Role

You'll be the first dedicated mobile engineer at Köniva. Right now mobile is owned by the CTO; you'll take that surface area, own it end-to-end, and set the standard for how we build and ship on iOS (and eventually Android). This is a high-autonomy, high-ownership role at a company with real customers and a clear commercial roadmap.

What You'll Work On

• Both Köniva apps: the B2B voice inventory tool and the consumer tasting notes subscription app
• Core mobile UX — audio recording, live transcription preview, offline-first sync, location management
• Translating Figma designs into polished, production-ready UI — working closely with our UX designer to find the right balance between visual fidelity and implementation pragmatics
• App Store release process, CI/CD, and native module integration
• Collaborating directly with the CTO on architecture and product decisions

Must-Have

• 5+ years of production mobile development, with 3+ years in React Native — Expo and EAS specifically
• Strong grasp of iOS and Android ecosystem: App Store submission, guidelines, TestFlight, signing, native modules when needed
• AI-native development workflow — Claude or equivalent should be writing most of your code; your job is to direct, review, and validate it
• Track record of owning a mobile codebase — not just contributing to one
• CI/CD for mobile: automated builds, test pipelines, release automation

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with real-time data / audio recording in a mobile context
• Familiarity with Firebase / GCP backend
• Consumer subscription apps (IAP, RevenueCat or similar)
• B2B / enterprise mobile experience
• Exposure to audio APIs, speech recognition, or NLP-adjacent features

Why Köniva

• The two founders you'll work directly with built products at Uber, Meta, Google, and Microsoft — not as passengers, but as engineers and PMs who shipped at scale. The quality bar, the code review culture, the engineering standards they learned there — that's what we're bringing to Köniva. You'll get the mentorship and rigor of a Tier 1 eng org, at a company where your work actually moves the needle.
• You won't be handed a ticket queue. We're looking for someone who has a clear opinion on how a mobile codebase should be structured, and the experience to back it up. The mobile layer is yours to define.
• Both apps are live on the App Store. You're not joining pre-product — but you're early enough that the decisions you make in the first 90 days will shape the architecture for years.
• Early stage means uncertainty. It also means that if this works, you're a founding engineer at a company in a market that's ready for disruption — not a mid-level IC at a 200-person org waiting for your turn.

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