App. Architect & Lead React Developer (start-up, no salary)

What it is:

Near blue-ocean opportunity, market & user validated.

ARR Projections $1M post spin-out anniversary, and $10M by year 5

Potential future employment/ income stream.

What it's NOT:

Not full-time employment.

No benefits.

No salary/cash.

If you're ready to build a highly engaging, social, interactive application from first principles with direct equity ownership in a promising new venture, we encourage you to apply here or by emailing us directly at info@my19th.com include your resume and tell us: why you, and why now.

Bonus points for:

• Crowd-source mobile data collection
• Monetization & Data Licensing
• Virtual Racehorse Betting/ Gambling
• Previous startup or founding experience is a strong plus.
• Proven experience building real-time, data-driven applications with location services and interactive mapping.
• Strong understanding of gamification principles and community-driven engagement systems.

Join us to architect and build an innovative interactive React application that combines dynamic maps, real-time communication, gamification, and community consensus. You will lead rapid proof-of-concept and MVP development in a lean, self-resourced environment with meaningful equity ownership and profit-sharing potential in the future company spin-out.

Your Impact & Must Have Experience

• Own the architecture and delivery of a next-gen event/venue platform.
• Drive early prototype iterations to validate and refine product vision.
• Build engaging features that foster active user participation and social collaboration.
• Shape the technical and strategic direction as a critical founding team member.
• Leadership experience
• Gamification & Community Engagement
• Real-time routing, analytics and map systems
• Architectural/Technical Design & Best Practices

We’re looking for folks who:

• Is able to self-manage development tools, environments & collaborate with others (athletes, fitness enthusiasts, team-sport background, and veterans highly encouraged to apply)
• Has expert-level React skills with deep knowledge of hooks, context, Redux, React Router, and component architecture, along with experience building real-time, data-driven applications.
• The ability to self-manage in a fast-paced environment with minimal infrastructure or provided resources.
• Knows how to collaborate via Google, Trello, Figma, recurring meetings,

Important Considerations:

• This role requires candidates to provide their own hardware, software licenses, and development environment for prototyping and delivery.
• Compensation is equity-only with meaningful ownership in the future company spin-out; profit-sharing arrangements may be negotiated upon commercialization.
• Ideal candidates are self-starters motivated by ownership and long-term upside, not short-term salary.
• This is ideal as a side-project, and potential future full-time employment, or additional source of income for you.

We're expecting you will have (candidate-provided, or similar alternatives):

Development Tools & Environments:

• Modern development workstation (macOS, Windows, or Linux) capable of running React development environment and supporting containerization or virtualization if needed
• IDE/text editor such as Visual Studio Code, WebStorm, or equivalent
• Node.js and npm/yarn package managers
• Git for version control (GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket repository experience)
• Docker for containerization (if applicable)

Frontend & UI Frameworks: 

• React.js and ecosystem tooling (Redux, React Router, Hooks, Context API)
• CSS-in-JS tools or preprocessors like Styled Components, Sass, or Tailwind CSS

API & Backend Communication: 

• RESTful APIs, GraphQL experience for backend interaction
• WebSocket or real-time data streaming frameworks (e.g., Socket.IO)

Cloud & Deployment: 

• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud (helpful if deployments or serverless functions are part of the stack)
• CI/CD pipelines/tools knowledge (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins, etc.)

Mapping & Geospatial Tools:

• Experience with Google Maps API, Mapbox, or similar geospatial libraries

Gamification & Analytics: 

• Tools or libraries to implement gamification features
• Analytics platforms for user engagement tracking (Google Analytics, Mixpanel, etc.)