Founding Engineer (Apps)

DansUGC; Lisboa; On-site; EUR 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

DansUGC in Lisboa is hiring a mobile engineer to own a consumer app portfolio from idea to App Store, without committee delays.

You’ll ship end-to-end using React Native/Expo or Swift, integrate auth, payments, analytics, and push, and ensure smooth releases with fast iteration.

You’ll work across the stack, use AI tooling to speed up development, and prioritize launch-readiness over feature bloat.

Qualifications

• Shipped a consumer app to real users.
• Strong TypeScript and full-stack comfort (Next.js + Supabase + Cloudflare).
• Proficient with AI tooling to improve speed and quality.
• Willing to cut scope to hit a launch deadline.

Responsibilities

• Build consumer apps end-to-end using React Native/Expo or Swift.
• Ship to App Store and Play Store: builds, review, releases, crash triage.
• Wire up core components: auth, payments, analytics, push notifications.
• Instrument features before launch to support growth metrics.
• Move fast; deliver first version in weeks, not quarters.

Skills

React Native

TypeScript

Next.js

Supabase

Cloudflare

Swift

Job description

Build consumer apps from zero — the 01 seat, not the maintenance seat.

Alongside DansUGC we build consumer apps and market them with our own UGC engine. You'd be the engineer for that portfolio: idea to App Store, repeatedly, without a committee in between.

What you'll do

• Build consumer apps end to end — React Native / Expo or Swift, your call, defended.
• Ship to the App Store and Play Store: builds, review, releases, crash triage.
• Wire up the load-bearing boring parts — auth, payments (Stripe / RevenueCat), analytics, push.
• Instrument before the ads run, so growth isn't flying blind on launch day.
• Move fast. First version in weeks, not quarters.

What we’re looking for

• You've shipped an app to a real store that real strangers used : Link it.
• Strong TypeScript, comfortable across the stack (we run Next.js 15 + Supabase + Cloudflare).
• You use AI tooling seriously, and it makes you faster without making you sloppy.
• You’d rather cut scope than miss a launch.