Lead Engineer - Validate truthfulness of ideas $3000-7500

### Lead engineer /CTO - Co-Founder - Full-time

You have the opportunity to join us as a full-time `lead developer` and become a Co-founder or Founding member, depending on your level of commitment.

### Your Expertise

- Experience in leading software development teams

- Interest in participating in major product design decisions

- Scrum Muster experience is a bonus

- Mastery in crafting code from scratch, architecting complex systems, and tackling challenging technical problems.

- Passion for building, creating, and implementing groundbreaking solutions.

- 5+ years experience with `NodeJS`, `ReactJS`, and `Typescript` (Experience with `Electron` and `Next.js` is a bonus).

- You have a good level of verbal and written English

### Your benefits

1. Equal Partnership: Join our tight-knit team of 7 co-founders as an equal partner, bringing your unique perspective to challenge and enhance our way of thinking.

2. Ownership and Financial Upside: Gain significant equity share as a co-founder with the potential for lucrative returns and substantial wealth in under three years.

3. Flexibility: Enjoy the freedom to set your own hours and work from anywhere, supporting a healthy work-life balance.

4. Technical Creativity and Engaging Challenges: Engage in writing code from scratch and tackle complex, innovative tech challenges specific to our product's development.

5. Impact and Market Niche: Directly influence our progress and touch millions of users with our unique product that reshapes how B2B sales professionals build credibility with their prospects.

6. Learn and Grow: Immerse yourself in the dynamic startup scene on the brink of significant growth, with opportunities for personal and professional development.

7. Expert Guidance: Benefit from the expertise of over 150 StartupYard advisors and 7 seasoned in-house mentors in product, design, and management.

8. Autonomy in Decision-Making: Exercise autonomy in making impactful decisions, steering the company’s direction with your expertise and vision.

9. Opportunity for Career Transition and Growth: Leverage this role for a meaningful career transition, exploring entrepreneurial ventures and applying your skills in a new and challenging environment.

10. Alignment with Skills and Experience: Ideal for professionals with a background in business development, sales, or product development, looking to align their experience with a startup poised for significant growth.

### Our Offer

1. Salary: €36k-€90k in cash until product-market fit (expected in 9-12 months), after that you can expect a big increase

2. Bonus: €20k bonus as soon as we raise €1M+.

3. Equity: The exact amount depends on the value we expect you to bring us. That said, we are talking about co-founder equity, not a fraction, which usually companies in series A are giving. If our growth assumptions prove correct, your co-founder's equity will be worth multiple million euro in a few years time.

### Our Startup

1. Problem: Verifying people’s reputations is crucial in hiring, job-seeking, selling, and buying. The financial and time costs of verifying reputations rise rapidly as we attempt to check more individuals. Due to limited resources, this leads to potential trust problems, bad decisions and outcome quality.

2. Solution: Inguro helps verify and showcase personal reputation. It utilizes your shared network to verify the authenticity of connections. With one click, you can confirm the reputation of others and showcase yours. Perfect for job seekers, recruiters, and sales professionals, Inguro allows detailed searches by industry, job title, company, location, and keywords. The ranking of your search results is determined by the number of authentic mutual connections and reputation ratings of the profiles found. At the top of your search results, you will find the most trustworthy professionals who will likely trust you back. Inguro makes connecting easy by facilitating warm introductions and saving you time with AI-generated messages.

3. Mission: Our mission is to increase trust

and decrease the risk of losing in

prisoner's dilemma and tragedy of commons

### Our Traction

- Inguro emerged from our experience within the LinkedIn growth hacking agency, where we generated €20M in sales for our customers

- We validated the problem-solution fit of Inguro with `€15k proof-of-concept revenue` in 2022

- We got accepted and graduated from Startup Wise guys, pre-accelerator

- We StartupYard accelerator invested €60k in Inguro

- We `raised €345k` from NemoVentures and 12 more individual business angels

- We build a working minimal viable product

- We currently serve hundreds of early adopters who use our product

- Our 110+ early adopters report receiving unique and significant value that they can't get on LinkedIn search

### What convinced 14 of our angel investors

1. Strong Founding Team: Demonstrated capability and expertise within the founding team.

2. Effective Leadership: Slava, known for his competence and enthusiasm as CEO, brings solid market knowledge, robust sales skills, and a clear product vision.

3. Functional MVP: Presence of a working Minimum Viable Product showcasing the potential of the idea.

4. Product Validation: Evidence of product viability through paying customers, significant traction, and a clickable prototype.

5. Identified Customer Needs: Clear understanding and addressing of specific customer pain points.

6. Scalable Product: High potential for scaling the product effectively in the market.

7. Large Market Potential: Access to a significant market with ample growth opportunities.

8. Network Effects: Ability to leverage network effects to enhance product value and user base.

9. High-Quality Marketing Materials: Professional and appealing marketing assets including the landing page, product demo video, pitch deck, and sales pitch.

10. Proven Go-To-Market Strategy: A go-to-market approach validated through cash flow projections and mentor feedback.

11. Secured Financial Runway: Availability of sufficient funds to support operations and growth for over 18 months.

### Our Team

- CEO - 7 years in sales, worked for IBM, Dell, Credit Suisse, and PwC. $20M in revenue

- Technical Co-founder - 20+ years in software development, Architect at TopTal Core Team

- Technical Co-founder - 10+ years in Software Development. Worked for OneSolve, Praxis, and Brico

- Technical Co-founder - 14+ years in software development, was Lead Egnineer at Nubank

- Technical Co-founder - 7+ years in software development, 15 projects

- Designer, Co-founder, and designer - 10+ years in UX and product design. More than ten products and projects

We can't list all the achievements of our investors and advisors and will therefore highlight only a few of them:

- Our lead investors in the pre-seed round are the co-founders of the biggest Swiss accelerator and coworking.

- Built and led the biggest worldwide IBM sales center with 5k employees

- Built and led Pipedrive Prague with 50 employees

- VP of Growth at Make, previously led 60+ product teams at Wrike

- Recently raised CHF 5M

- Founded a $17M startup

- Built an agency of 100 employees in Austria

### Our Culture

We run our company as an idea meritocracy - a culture focusing on meaningful work and productive relationships.

- Understand first - we always seek to actively listen and understand before articulating our thoughts.

- Request and provide feedback - it’s difficult to see oneself objectively. That's why we need to request and provide honest feedback constantly.

- Constantly improve - we don't take easy paths; we take the right paths. We prioritize the team's growth (long-term thinking) over personal comfort (short-term thinking).

- Open-mindedness and transparency - are invaluable for rapid learning and effective change.

- Contribution - We always add value. We give before we take.

### Interested to learn more?

Write us a short email to `slava AT inguro DOT com` with:

- your `linkedin profile link`

- your `top 1 reason` for being attracted to this collaboration opportunity.