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title: 'Founding iOS Developer at Vamo'
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last_seen: '2026-09-08'
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# Founding iOS Developer at Vamo

- **Company:** Vamo
- **Location:** Santa Monica, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2025-08-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/vamo-xyz/am9icG9zdDqs11CFcSA2Wa9g18hUDmuS

## Job description

iOS Developer (Founding) — Venice Beach CA, Hybrid About us: Our partner is a repeat-founder team building a consumer social + health product. Tagline: Healthmaxxing With Friends. Alpha users love it, and we are ready to hire our first founding full-stack engineer.

The role: Own the iOS app end to end. Design the architecture, ship delightful UI, and make the app feel fast, reliable, and social. Partner closely with backend to shape APIs, real-time interactions, and data flows. This is staff level and up with real product and design influence.

What you’ll do:

- Build and ship Swift and SwiftUI features that drive daily habit and retention
- Shape app architecture, navigation, state, modularization, and offline behavior
- Integrate HealthKit, Apple Watch, notifications, background tasks, and app extensions
- Partner with backend on real-time feeds, push, WebSockets or SSE, and API design

You might be a fit if you have:

- 3–10+ years building consumer iOS apps users love, from prototype to App Store
- Deep Swift and SwiftUI, async/await, Combine, and app architecture patterns (MVVM or Redux-style)
- Experience with HealthKit or similar device integrations, push, deeplinks, and permissions
- Strong product taste, accessibility awareness, and a habit of measuring outcomes
- Comfort in small, fast teams where you own decisions and ship weekly

Nice to have:

- WatchKit or watchOS complications
- AVFoundation or short-video capture and playback
- Security and privacy for health-adjacent data

Location and setup: Hybrid in Venice Beach. West Coast preferred. Relocation supported within 6–12 months. Competitive comp with strong equity.

How to apply Send a short note and links to GitHub or shipped work to jobs@vamotalent.com. Bonus: Include one example of a performance or reliability win you are proud of!

## About Vamo

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Vamo is an AI-powered recruiting platform that surfaces top software engineers by analyzing their public GitHub repositories and code quality.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped; no external funding raised as of August 2026)
- **Headquarters**: Remote-first; team distributed across the United States and Brazil
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Bolun Li (founder, also founded Zogo)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Recruiting & Talent Sourcing (Technology)
- **Target customers**: B2B – recruiters, hiring managers, CTOs, and startup founders looking to hire engineering talent
- **Mission/purpose**: Shift hiring from pedigree (resumes, LinkedIn profiles) to proof-of-work (real code, projects, and contributions on GitHub). The company’s tagline: “Cracked engineers are not on LinkedIn. They’re on GitHub.”

## Products & Services
- **[Vamo Platform](https://vamotalent.com/how-it-works)**: SaaS tool that indexes 50M+ GitHub profiles, ranks engineers using a proprietary algorithm (stars, followers, community engagement), and allows plain‑language searches (e.g., “someone who built a CRM in Python”). Offers three search types: Archetype, Platform (e.g., Shopify, AWS), and Domain (e.g., fintech, AI). Users can directly contact candidates via GitHub email. Subscription starts at $159/month.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available (bootstrapped, no funding rounds)
- **Customer traction**: ~2,000 customers within the first month of launch (as of early 2026), including companies like Autopilot and Cognition
- **Headcount**: 6 employees (as of mid‑2026), with monthly growth of +25%
- **Key team members**: David Chung (CEO, joined May 2026), Cam Whiteside (CTO, joined July 2026), Ben Thompson (Founding Growth), Gabriel G. (Founding Partnerships Lead)
- **Competitors**: Andela, Shapr, Fetcher (source: [Tracxn](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/vamo/__4goHoyIRUj9MjD7sKUbicrYeYHZq1Ek0YexMaijeVhY))

## Why Work at Vamo
- **Remote‑first culture** with a small, highly collaborative team (currently 6 people)
- **Mission‑driven**: Building the future of talent sourcing by focusing on real code over resumes
- **Early‑stage impact**: Employees have direct influence on product direction and growth
- **Tech stack**: LinkedIn, HTML, GitHub (as listed on LinkedIn)
- **Recent hires**: CTO Cam Whiteside was found using Vamo’s own tool – a strong signal of dogfooding and belief in the product

## Additional Notes
- Vamo is currently tailored for finding engineers; plans exist to expand to other creator roles.
- The company’s LinkedIn page shows a 30% response rate for outreach vs. 1–3% on LinkedIn.
- No careers page was found at the provided Gem URL (likely outdated); current openings are not publicly listed.

## Other roles at Vamo

- [Principal Founding Full Stack Software Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/principal-founding-full-stack-software-engineer-vamo-los-angeles-73kfve2qp2w6) — Los Angeles, CA
- [Full Stack Engineer (All Levels)](https://feeny.ai/job/full-stack-engineer-all-levels-vamo-san-francisco-x89p9wrk6xg2) — San Francisco, CA
- [Founding Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-engineer-vamo-san-francisco-ssyydyem0c9v) — San Francisco, CA
- [Founding Software Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-software-engineer-vamo-san-francisco-j7a103npay87) — San Francisco, CA
- [Senior Full Stack Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-full-stack-engineer-vamo-toronto-3pzwd3kk20k0) — Toronto, Canada
- [Founding Full Stack Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-full-stack-engineer-vamo-santa-monica-9wpea07jgtrw) — Santa Monica, CA