Updated as of May 23: Accepting apps + doing rolling work trials (paid)

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 making tools that augment our human-ness, and I’m looking for your help!

If you’re exceptionally talented and looking for an opportunity to grind alongside a group of other people driven by a higher mission, and have fun at the same time, then keep reading!

🍊 About The Role

• You're a full-stack engineer who work on whatever — frontend, backend, infra, data, mobile
• Toronto preferred, but open to fully remote work with periodic in person work sessions for the right person
  • PLEASE NOTE: we will work startup full time hours (7 days a week, definitely not 40 hours, also not 100 hours, but realistically you’ll end up somewhere around the 60-70 range as a minimum)
    • we’ve currently been doing roughly m-f 10am - midnight with weekends being more flexible but still roughly 5ish hours each day
    • 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 doing work on the weekend is blasphemous to you (very valid things for you to feel btw), this is not gonna be the right fit for either of us
• Your years of experience doesn’t really matter. You just gotta be able to build and have good ideas. But ofc show me that >> tell me.
• You use AI-assisted development daily. Whether it's Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, MCPs, etc, etc — you already use AI tools to move faster and you have opinions about when they help vs when they get in the way.
• Genuinely full-stack: Currently we use: TypeScript, React, Vite, Tailwind CSS, shadcn, Convex, Clerk, PostHog, Cloudflare
• Targeting $70k - $110k CAD + 1.0% - 2% equity for Canadian hires
  • while this cannot compare with more established companies (and will likely be way more work and stress and fun seeing as we are a pre-seed company not millions of ARR 🤡 #manifest), it is important for me to know that your needs are generally covered (not ramen salary 🍜) and that there is eventually meaningful equity for your work (aka not like 0.1%)
  • note: we will be starting off as contractor setup
    • as part of the interview process we will do a paid work trial (either part time or full time)

🍎 The Big Vision

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? And how do we capture this in a way that centres the individual, avoids mass surveillance, while provides data sovereignty and ownership to each person?

What does that look like though? I believe that one version of it looks like this: https://trove.is/

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