VerifyYou is founded by Marty Weiner, the first engineer at Pinterest and Reddit's first CTO. He spent over a decade fighting fraud and abuse at internet scale, watching the same gap appear again and again: how to verify someone is human without compromising their identity. VerifyYou is the layer he's set out to build.
We're hiring a frontend engineer (2+ YOE, React + TypeScript) to own and ship the user-facing surfaces of our verification engine. You'll build the flows that actual humans interact with, and you'll own the React + TypeScript codebase end-to-end.
- Own the React + TypeScript codebase that powers our verification UI: camera capture, liveness flows, account states, and everything in between.
- Ship features end-to-end: design handoff, build, polish, measure, iterate. Tight feedback loops with the founders.
- Build for both web and mobile (React Native) so users get a consistent experience across surfaces.
- Make decisions on state management, component architecture, and styling that future engineers will have to live with. We trust you to make them well.
- Sweat the details. This is the part of VerifyYou that real users see. If it lags, glitches, or feels janky, we lose trust. You're the line of defense.
- Frontend: React + TypeScript. We're not opinionated on the state management library yet (you can shape this).
- Backend (for integration context): Python (FastAPI), Node/TypeScript, serverless on GCP and AWS. You'll integrate with these via REST/JSON APIs but won't be writing them.
- Tooling: Vite, React 19+, TanStack Router, TanStack Query, Zustand, Axios.
- UI Frameworks: Chakra UI, Shadcn.
Required:
- 2+ years of professional experience building in React + TypeScript. You've shipped real products, not just tutorials or side projects.
- Strong CSS and responsive design. Can you build a layout that can be maintained and works across devices?
- Comfort with REST/JSON API integration, async data flows, and error handling.
- Solid product sense. You notice when something feels off, and you fix it without being told.
Nice to have:
- React Native production experience.
- Browser media APIs (getUserMedia, MediaRecorder, video/canvas processing).
- Experience with camera-heavy or biometric capture UIs.
- Performance optimization for media-heavy apps (frame rate, memory, battery, react-scan).
- Design system or component library experience.
- Trust and safety, identity, or verification UX exposure.
The internet has evolved into critical infrastructure, but its trust model hasn't kept pace. AI has made synthetic participation trivial, and legacy solutions like KYC, CAPTCHAs and phone verification are either fragile or invasive. We're building verification infrastructure that proves humanness while keeping personal data private.
You'll own real surface area, ship to production fast, work directly with founders and senior technical leadership, and earn competitive base + meaningful equity.
Complete the form below with:
1. Your resume.
2. A GitHub repo, portfolio, or live deployed project you own. Any language, any topic. We're looking for builders, and your repo gives us the best look into your work. Show us what you're made of!
We screen for builders. The work is the filter. Show us what you make when no one's watching.
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