Full-Time

Product Engineer

Finch Care

Finch Care

11-50 employees

Gamified self-care app with virtual pet

No salary listed

La Ronge, SK, Canada

Remote

Category
Software Engineering (2)
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Required Skills
REST APIs
Requirements
  • Five or more years of experience building consumer products for mobile or full-stack environments.
  • Possess a product-centric mindset with the ability to identify tradeoffs for product decisions to inform user experience.
  • Ability to quickly derisk new ideas ranging from iterative changes to new product experiences in a fast-paced environment.
  • Experience designing clean and maintainable Application Programming Interfaces.
  • Experience running A/B experiments and making data-informed decisions while balancing qualitative feedback.
  • Familiarity with engineering best practices for mobile and web applications to build scalable and reliable products.
  • Ability to disentangle ambiguous and messy problems into simple and elegant solutions.
  • Availability to work at least 6 hours within the coordination window of 8am to 6pm Pacific Standard Time.
Responsibilities
  • Play a critical role in growing and evolving the application as the fifth engineer.
  • Work with high autonomy and speed throughout the end-to-end product development cycle from ideation to launch decisions.
  • Provide significant input into engineering norms and tools to create a high-performing team.
  • Work cross-functionally with product designers, creative designers, character animators, and the founders.
  • Act as a thought partner in building the product, company, and culture.
  • Revolutionize the way people interact with mobile devices to be mentally beneficial.
  • Redefine social interactions to help people support others.
  • Reimagine wellness exercises such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mental health insights to help users navigate life challenges.
  • Create playful product experiences to make daily self-care and mental health fun and sustainably engaging.
  • Develop a generalizable platform of mental health tools that caters to a wide range of user experience levels.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience developing Flutter mobile apps.
  • Experience working on products in the wellness or game industry.

Finch Care runs a mobile app that helps users improve their mental well-being by using a virtual pet. Users care for the pet by completing daily self-care exercises and check-ins, turning healthy habits into a game. The app tracks progress over time and uses gamification to encourage consistent self-care. It monetizes through a freemium model with premium features like more personalization options and advanced analytics, plus an e-commerce shop selling branded merchandise such as plushies and stickers. Finch Care differentiates itself by tying habit-building and mindfulness to a cute, interactive virtual companion, offering a simple, engaging way to form positive routines. The goal is to make self-care enjoyable and sustainable, helping users build lasting healthy habits.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Menlo Park, California

Founded

2021

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Finch Plus at ยฃ70.99/year offers bird customization and habit tracking.
  • Fully functional free version drives broad user adoption without barriers.
  • Inclusive cosmetics appeal to diverse users including children and LGBTQ+.

What critics are saying

  • Headspace and Calm erode share with larger funding and content libraries.
  • 70-80% churn hits after 3-6 months as pet novelty fades.
  • FDA regulates mental health claims lacking RCTs within 12-24 months.

What makes Finch Care unique

  • Finch uses virtual pet care tied directly to self-care tasks like brushing teeth.
  • Users customize pets with pronouns, traits, pride flags, and mobility canes.
  • Earn rainbow stones for habits to buy pet clothes and coop furniture.

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Benefits

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