Software Engineer

Salary: CHF 75'000 - 100'000 per year

Requirements:

• Advanced degree in computer science (ETH/UNI/FH).
• At least 3 years of professional mobile app development experience with React Native.
• Solid TypeScript skills and a good understanding of modern frontend architecture with React.
• Experience with MongoDB is a big plus.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure and Temporal is a plus (not required).
• Strong logical and analytical thinking; able to structure complex problems and make sound trade-offs.
• Ability to build clean, maintainable, and well-structured code in a growing product.
• Good sense for UX details, mobile interaction patterns, and what makes an app feel fast, simple, and reliable.
• Pragmatic engineering mindset: balance speed, quality, and complexity without overengineering.
• Comfortable taking ownership in a small team, asking the right questions, and moving things forward independently.
• Experience using AI tools in your software development workflow.
• Curiosity for travel, discovery, maps, local knowledge, or location-based mobile experiences.
• Hands-on product engineer profile (not a pure researcher or someone only focused on backend infrastructure); strong React / React Native experience and solid full-stack understanding.

Responsibilities:

• Build and improve the Joaia mobile app with React Native and TypeScript.
• Further develop the Guide Studio web application using React and TypeScript.
• Turn product and design ideas into polished, reliable mobile experiences for iOS and Android.
• Work on mobile-specific challenges such as performance, animations, offline behavior, push notifications, geolocation, and app stability.
• Improve the quality, structure, and maintainability of the applications as the product grows.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and AI Engineering to ship features quickly and thoughtfully.
• Use AI tools as part of your development workflow to build faster.
• Debug, test, release, and monitor app features in a real production environment.
• Bring product thinking into engineering decisions and help shape how travelers experience Joaia.

Technologies:

• AI
• Android
• Azure
• Backend
• CTO
• Frontend
• Support
• Mobile
• MongoDB
• React
• React Native
• TypeScript
• Web
• iOS
• UX UI Design
• Cloud
• Atlassian
• Claude Code

More:

About Us Holoai Ltd. is an AI startup founded in 2024, building with Joaia at the frontier of travel and discovery. We give tourism destinations across Europe the tools to unlock their local knowledge and turn it into agentic AI guides that reason, remember, and adapt. Destinations build and own their guides themselves. Travelers get something that didnt exist before.

Imagine a guide that knows every hidden bar in Zurichs alternative scene, a Roman merchant who brings the ancient origins of Chur to life, or a carnival insider who walks you through Basels Fasnacht tradition with the depth of someone who has lived it for decades. Each guide has its own personality, its own knowledge domain, its own way of telling a story. They can be fictional characters, digital twins of historical figures, local experts, or thematic specialists.

We work with destinations like Zurich Tourism, Basel Tourism, Lucerne Tourism, Graubünden Ferien, and more are joining every month. We are a small, focused team on a mission to make the worlds local knowledge accessible to every traveler, so that anyone, anywhere, can discover a place with the depth and curiosity it deserves. If that mission excites you, come build it with us.

The Role We are looking for a Full Stack Software Engineer to support the development and continued improvement of the Joaia product experience, with a focus on our React Native mobile application and our React web application.

You will work closely with Roger, our CTO & co-founder, as well as Product and AI Engineering. Your focus will be on the implementation of all layers of the products: building user-facing features and the backend, connecting AI systems, improving architecture, and helping us ship faster without losing quality.

This is a role for someone who enjoys building real products, not only writing isolated code. You should care about the user experience, understand technical trade-offs, and be comfortable working in a small team where priorities can change quickly and ownership matters.

What We Offer - Real ownership and direct impact on the product from day one. - Equity / stock options. - A small, honest team where decisions get made fast and your voice matters. - Hybrid work setup based in Zurich. - Work at the frontier of AI, travel, local knowledge, and mobile user experience. - A live product, real customers, and a lot still to discover.

How to Apply Send a short message via email to darius@joaia.app and tell us why you fit. Attach your CV and optionally a link to relevant work.

We take hiring seriously. Our process includes structured evaluation with real tasks, because this role requires demonstrated judgment, not just a strong interview.

last updated 25 week of 2026