Engineering
Senior Software Engineer
- 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
Important
Nice to have
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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