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CTO / Founding Engineer Wayd, NYC

About Wayd

Our mission is to maximize serendipity.
We aim to be Earth’s strongest force for creating, sustaining, and strengthening human connections. We believe that current social media are addiction machines and they lost track, we want to bring social media to its true purpose.
We want to make humans more human. In a world full of AI companions, AI friends, and AI everything, we believe the AI best use-case is not to substitute but enhance human connections. That’s why we're building Wayd - the next Instagram, powered by the world’s first autonomous social agents.
We are backed & received offers by the same legendary investors of: SpaceX, OpenAI, Instagram, Pinterest, Notion, Stripe, ...
We are driven by ambitious goals, fast execution, and a strong sense of urgency. We are assembling the team to make our first "rocket" launch happen.

About the Role

You will system design, architect and code our IOS App, infrastructure & AI agent engine starting from scratch, using first principles thinking. Your role might involve coming up with novel ways for users to interact with social networks - product thinking.
We are looking for an a person that think of themselves as an inventor. Your work will be seen and used by millions of people. You'll be in the early founding team.

About the team

You’ll work with people in the top 0.1% of their fields.
Every member brings a track record of exceptional achievement and relentless execution, including:
• Creating an app featured by Apple, with 500k+ downloads, at just 18 years old.
• Launching a website with over 1M views and managing a team of writers at 13.
• Scoring perfect score in mathematics, placing in the top % nationally.
How we work:

• In-person at our office in Soho, NYC.

• Direct, blunt communication.  • Relentless velocity. We ship faster than companies 5x our size. • Hardcore work ethic. We outwork, outthink, and out-execute. • Risk-takers. Make mistakes, learn fast, win big.

Compensation: involves cash + equity.
We think that experience is overrated; we look for life patterns that reveal hidden gems - people obsessed with their craft, driven to do their best work and with clear evidence for excellence.

You'll flourish in this role if you:

• Have demonstrated evidence of excellence through prior projects or internships / projects.

• You're known among your friends group to be the cracked 10x engineer.

• You have a strong point-of-view, without ego — You may occasionally pursue a hunch that not everyone on the team agrees with, but are relentless about testing, deleting, and learning from ideas which don’t work

• Possess a high-agency, generalist mindset, adaptable across diverse challenges.

• Question everything, and consider yourself an inventor.

• Passionate about exciting future through transformative technology.

Ideal Experience

• Having worked in extremely technical and complex projects

• Have apps on the App Store (not necessary)

• Evidence of being a great coder and general evidence of excellence

Your Info

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Evidence of Excellence

We look for evidence of exceptional ability. Please provide us with three examples highlighting your exceptional ability concisely. This is your moment to WOW us! NOTE: Answering this question fully is the most important part of our interview process. We prefer if you make it personal, we are looking for clear and unquestionable evidence for excellence throughout your life. Not necessarily highlights from your resume. 1 sentence max per bullet point.

Who inspires you?

It could be a famous person or somebody you know.

What would you do if you had no chance of failure?

Imagine you receive a magical envelope. Whatever you write inside this envelope, you will become - no chance of failure, guaranteed. You can choose anything: a singer, an actor, anything at all. What would you write? if you don’t write anything in the envelope within five minutes, you’ll lose this chance forever.

What's your favorite movie?

Can you also design?

Are you currently authorized to work in the United States?

Will you, at any point, require employer sponsorship to work in the United States?

Ideal start date in office

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