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Senior Software Engineer

Atlanta, GAHybridFull-timeSenior
Base pay
$150K – $200K / year
Also includes
Equity
Experience
5+ years

The role

Owner of end-to-end features across mobile, desktop, backend, and a shared cryptographic core for an end-to-end encrypted messaging product. Solve offline-first, convergence, and protocol-level problems while delivering consumer-grade UX in a security-critical product on a small team.

What you’ll do

  • Build features across React Native mobile apps, a macOS desktop app, and a Node/PostgreSQL backend
  • Design and implement protocol-level features: identity verification, group membership/voting, message delivery/sync, key distribution
  • Develop and maintain a shared Rust core used by clients and server tooling
  • Solve offline-first sync, convergence, and encrypted local database problems
  • Write unit, integration, and multi-client protocol tests
  • Review code and help set engineering standards
  • Collaborate directly with product, design, and founders

What we’re looking for

  • TypeScript
  • React Native
  • Node.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • HTTP
  • WebSockets
  • Data modeling

Preferred: • Work on end-to-end encrypted product protecting enterprise/defense/finance workflows

  • Ship full-stack features from protocol design through client and server
  • Small team with high influence, close mentorship, and meaningful equity

Required

TypeScriptReact NativeNode.jsPostgreSQLHTTPWebSocketsData modeling

Important

RustCryptographyDistributed systemsSwiftKotlinAWSCI/CDTestingYarn

Nice to have

CryptographyRustDistributed systemsSwiftKotlinAWSCI/CD

The team

Small, focused engineering team building a security-critical, end-to-end encrypted product. The role reports to the Head of Engineering and works closely with founders, design, and product, with emphasis on code quality and protocol correctness.

Pay & benefits

$150K – $200K per year, plus equity.

Hybrid role with a few days/week in the Atlanta office and remote otherwise; health, dental, and vision coverage; 401(k); unlimited PTO; meaningful equity in an early-stage company; close mentorship and regular offsites.

  • Equity

About Ayla

our client builds private, end-to-end encrypted messaging for trusted relationships used across enterprise, finance, defense, and security sectors. The company emphasizes real-world trust and consumer-grade UX for security tooling.

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