Founding Product Engineer
Quippy
Founding Product Engineer
Quippy
Adaptive social-skills practice with feedback
Quippy (YC F26) is a daily practice room for the conversations people dread. You pick a real situation, like disagreeing with your manager or starting a conversation at a party, rehearse it with a realistic scene partner by voice or text, and get honest, line-by-line feedback on what landed. The app is live on the App Store.
You will be one of the first engineers at Quippy. You will take features from a rough idea to something in people's hands, talk to the people using it, and help decide what we build next. Most weeks, something you wrote ships to real users.
Build product end to end across the iOS app (Expo, React Native, TypeScript) and the backend (Node, tRPC, Postgres)
Make realtime voice and text conversations feel natural, and make the feedback after them honest and useful
Shape the practice curriculum, onboarding, and the daily habit that brings people back
Measure what works, cut what does not, and ship the next version quickly
You have built something real that other people used, at a job or on your own
You move fast and you care how the product feels in someone's hand
You take a vague problem and own it until it is solved
You are curious about how people talk to each other
A founding role with shares in the company
You work directly with Jonathan, the founder
What you build reaches real users within days
A small team in San Francisco, backed by Y Combinator
Full-time. San Francisco preferred, remote work possible. Competitive salary and stock in the company.
Quippy is a San Francisco daily practice app that helps people build social skills through short, realistic conversation drills. It presents scenarios like pushing back on a boss or talking through a first date and provides line-by-line feedback on what landed and what backfired. The curriculum adapts to each user’s patterns and weak spots, focusing on private practice rather than social networking. Its goal is to help users gain practical social communication skills and confidence through repeated, private practice in realistic scenarios.
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