About the role
AuroraX is building Google for the offline world. Most commerce still happens in local stores and services with no live pricing, availability, or inventory online. Our consumer voice AI calls local sellers on a buyer’s behalf, gets real answers, and returns structured, verified results. An invite-only beta is live, with the US as our first market.
We are a stealth-stage, pre-seed funded team, founded by ex-YC founders, with the founding team split across the US and India. You would be the first dedicated app engineer and would own the mobile app end to end — from early release through growth, with a clear mandate to reach at least 50,000 active users.
What you will own
- The consumer app end to end: architecture, core flows, and the 0 to 10 journey of the React Native codebase across iOS and Android.
- The entire SDLC for the app: ship daily via OTA updates for anything JS-side, weekly store releases, with CI/CD and crash and performance monitoring set up from day one.
- Consumer-grade quality: startup time, smooth interactions, push notifications, live activities, background call states, and real-time surfaces for live call status and results, with low-latency updates for features like live transcripts.
- Taking the product from zero to scale, targeting 50,000+ active users with performance and stability that hold up.
- Localization: Aurora AI is a global app, so it has to support multiple locales and scripts.
- Implementation of complex AI-native interactions like rich form inputs and voice-led navigation, optimising the UX of the interaction between the user and the agent.
- The app team as it grows: you set the engineering patterns and later hire and lead app engineers.
You are a fit if
- You have 3 to 10 years building mobile apps, with deep React Native experience and consumer apps shipped to production on both stores.
- You have been the app lead through a 0 to 10 phase at an early-stage startup: you made the architecture calls and lived with the consequences at scale.
- You have taken an app from zero to at least 50,000 active users.
- You are fast. You prototype in days, ship daily, and cut scope yourself instead of waiting to be told.
- You are comfortable at the edges: native modules, app store review, deep links, analytics instrumentation, and debugging on real devices.
- You care about the details users feel but never name: latency, animation, and polish.
Nice to have
- Prior work on consumer apps with high engagement bars.
- IIT/BITS/NIT graduate preferred.
Probably not a fit if
- Your experience is entirely B2B SaaS, enterprise, or internal tools.
- You have only worked inside a large mobile team executing someone else’s architecture.
- You need a PM and a finished spec before you can start building.
Compensation
Competitive cash plus a meaningful founding-team ESOP grant. Final band depends on experience and evaluation.
How to apply
Send links to apps you have shipped (App Store / Play Store), your GitHub if relevant, and a short note. Applications go to join@aurorax.co.