The Role
Design, develop, and implement new features for Littlebird, ensuring performance and security, while collaborating closely with research and development leads.
Summary Generated by Built In
Littlebird is your AI-powered personal operating system. We capture context from your daily life -- meetings, messages, browsing, notes -- and use it to help you remember everything, prioritize your day, and solve real problems. Think of us as the AI assistant that actually knows you.
Littlebird is remote-first; we speak a few languages, love to collaborate, and like to build things that we enjoy using. Check out the recent TechCrunch news on our $11M seed funding and what users are saying about the product.
- Work closely with R&D leads to design scalable architecture
- Prove out AI feature ideas, iterate on them and integrate them into the product when they're ready for prime time
- Build systems with a focus on performance, accuracy, security and scale
- Contribute to new voice and transcriptions features
- Build and own features that will produce value for our customers
- Minimum 5 years of hands-on software development experience with at least a few years focus on Swift or Objective-C.
- Proven ability to build complex, responsive user interfaces in MacOS, iOS and/or Android
- Comfortable handling concurrency, multi-threaded programming, and performance tuning in complex systems.
- Demonstrated ability to diagnose and resolve front-end performance bottlenecks—from slow rendering times to memory management issues. Familiarity with profiling tools (e.g., Chrome DevTools, Instruments, Lighthouse).
- Proficiency in using modern build and development tools like Webpack, Babel, Git, CI/CD pipelines
- Familiarity with macOS development tools and data persistence frameworks
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Desired Experience
- Prior startup experience, shipping products 0-1 and/or owning major parts of a production-grade codebase
- Experience leading architectural discussions, discussing tradeoffs, designing integrations and test plans
- Experience with assistive technologies like screen readers and voice recognition software
- Proficiency in Rust and/or python
- Remote-friendly work environment
- Collaborative team culture
- Opportunity to shape infrastructure decisions
- Competitive compensation packages including stock and health/dental/vision/life benefits, paid time off, 401k, and parental leave
- Flexible working hours across multiple time zones
Top Skills
Android
Babel
Chrome Devtools
Ci/Cd
Git
Instruments
iOS
Lighthouse
macOS
Objective-C
Swift
Webpack
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The Company
What We Do
Littlebird is the full-context AI assistant for Mac—a personal AI that continuously understands your screen and meetings to deliver answers grounded in what you're actually working on. Founded by Alexander Green, Alap Shah, and Naman Shah, the company is based in San Francisco. Available now at littlebird.ai.
