Lead Engineer

MIT Media Lab product designer Jacob Cole is building Ideaflow – a notebook that augments your intelligence as you type. Our product enables users to seamlessly capture and stitch together fragments of information, amplifying their ability to solve critical problems.

Ray Kurzweil projects that, by 2045, humanity will be hooked up to a "shared neocortex in the cloud" by brain-computer interfaces. We will leave the brain-computer interfaces to Elon Musk, but we believe it’s possible to build that "shared brain" now, and that it might look different than many imagine. We want to create a future where nobody feels alone with their ideas, where intellectual soulmates find each other, where superconnectors are empowered. We see our software as critical to creating the frame for humans and machines to work together to solve the world's most important problems.

Our vision derives from years of research at the MIT Media Lab, we’ve now raised over $10M from some of the world’s most influential investors, including First Round Capital, 8VC, Sequoia scouts, and Naval, and we are looking…for YOU.

If you’re a strong Javascript engineer, have a lot of thoughts (writings, lists, quotes, ideas, or notes on people!) you want to capture, and are someone who likes to work with fun, bubbly people, drop us a line ✨🛁📓🤓.

‍The destiny of the Web is in your hands.

‍Feel free to drop us a note at jacob@ideaflow.io

The Role:
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Imagine the world's lowest-friction thought-capture system meets Figma-for-knowledge-graphs. Imagine Obsidian, but maintained by AI and massively collaborative. Our mission: build the ultimate personal knowledge management system that evolves into humanity's collective brain. Backed by $10M+ from Naval, Palantir co-founder, First Round Capital, and featured in ProductHunt Weekly Highlight. Rapidly growing product adoption.

The Challenge ⚡
- Building an offline-first, real-time collaborative notebook
- Making knowledge graphs & LLMs feel magical
- Creating the smoothest note-taking experience ever
- Making collaborative intelligence feel like a superpower

You'll Love This If 💫
- You're obsessed with performance & user experience
- You've built real-time collaborative featuresReact & TypeScript make you happy
- You have Strong Opinions™ about note-taking apps

Why It's Cool 🚀
- Small, technical team shipping meaningful products
- SF-based + remote, flexible work style, care about holistic wellness
- Competitive salary + equity that matters

We Offer 🌐
- A competitive salary with equity incentives
- Work from home accommodations
- $500/month to promote well being
- Flexible work hours with unlimited PTO
- Comprehensive health, vision and dental benefits for full-time employees (including  acupuncture!)
- A problem worth solving

The Handshake 🤝
- Email jacob+hiringVIP@ideaflow.io and tell us about your favorite note-taking system.
- Roam power user? Obsidian explorer? We want to hear about it! Read more: https://www.ideaflow.io/careers.
- Diverse teams build better products. All backgrounds welcome.‍