Hi there, I’m Helen Huang and I’m building a new way to measure someone’s character, values, and taste. In an era of increasingly more AI tools that uNlOcK eFfIcIeNcY — I’m building something that augments our human-ness, and I’m looking for your help!

🍊 About The Role

• You're a generalist engineer who can work across the stack — frontend, backend, infra, maybe even mobile — and you genuinely enjoy thinking about data (ML, NLP, behavioral modeling, etc). You're not just building CRUD apps, you're excited about the what do we do with all this behavioral signal question.
• The "data-leaning" in the title means you find behavioral data genuinely interesting — not that you're primarily a data person. Most of your time will be spent building and shipping product. The data layer is what makes the product interesting, not what you spend all day on.
• Fully remote work with periodic in person work sessions
  • PLEASE NOTE: we will do startup full time hours (definitely not 40 hours, probably not 80 hours, but realistically you’ll end up somewhere around the ~60 hour range)
    • I will never demand a minimum set of hours from you bc it’s not actually about the hours… but if you’re someone who prefers to hold strict boundaries with work and shut the laptop at 6 (wtf?! 6?? not even 5?? haha) or if checking your messages on the weekend is blasphemous to you (both very valid things for you to feel btw), this is not gonna be the right fit for either of us
• You've been the primary (or only) engineer at a startup with a small team (not a solo project, not a 50-person dev org). You've owned the full dev process without a dedicated PM, data scientist, or DevOps person handing you direction, though you've also shipped alongside other engineers and stakeholders who challenged your thinking. Side projects are cool, but we want to see that you've navigated real constraints with real teammates.
• You're comfortable with AI-assisted development. Whether it's Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, or your own workflows — you already use AI tools to move faster and you have opinions about when they help vs when they get in the way.
• Targeting $100k - $120k CAD + 1.0% - 1.5% Equity (may be adjusted for location)
  • while this cannot compare with more established companies (cuz we barely have a product in market at this point, and will likely be way more work and stress and fun), it is important for me to know that your needs are generally covered (not ramen salary 🍜) and that there is meaningful equity for your work (aka not like 0.05%)
• Targeting start date May - June timeframe

🍎 The Big Vision

Trove is building the user-owned behavioral identity layer for the internet. This is infrastructure for people to be seen authentically - not through labels or accomplishments, but through revealed behavior.

Imagine a world if you could have x-ray vision for someone’s character. You could be celebrated for exactly who you are, hired for your traits that a resume can’t show. A world where the people you date and the friends you hang out with are trustworthy and genuine. How do we measure and quantify soft skills?

And in the future, as AI is embedded everywhere around us - what it cannot mimic is our character, our taste, our decision making, our actions. What can represent who we are at that point? What does a personal artifact of this future look like?

Those are the guiding principles of Trove.

🍈 More Details

This isn't a typical startup engineering role where you get handed tickets. You'll be building alongside me and the rest of the team to figure out what Trove ultimately becomes — and then making it real.