Founding Senior Full-Stack Engineer

To our friends in Brazil: We are specifically recruiting here because the React/Next.js talent is world-class, but often underutilized in local markets. We offer a bridge: Keep your day job, contribute 5-10 hours/week, and earn substantial equity in a US-based C-Corp. This isn't a job. It's a mission. One billion people are struggling with their mental health. 700,000 preventable deaths each year. Only a fraction ever reach the right provider because borders, languages, and broken marketplaces stand in the way. Unacceptable. We're fixing it. Really Global is building the world's first truly global, provider-centric mental health marketplace—so anyone, anywhere, can find the right human in their language, at a price they can afford. We're already live at really.global in 200+ countries. The foundation exists. Now we build the infrastructure that scales. Next: an AI-powered booking and translation layer with real-time audio translation, making quality care as accessible as ordering dinner. This is a system-level play. When we succeed, access to care becomes normal. Suffering becomes optional. The Opportunity: Put Your Name on the Blueprint. This is pure sweat equity for a true builder who's ready to trade the safety of a salary for substantial ownership in a $100M+ platform. You won't be building from scratch—you'll be accelerating what's already moving. Typical commitment: 5-10 hours/week, equity-only, alongside your primary role. You won't be "feature support." You'll be foundational—your fingerprints on architecture, UX, velocity, and every product decision that helps someone find hope in their darkest moment. We're backed by founders with a track record of scaling ventures to $130M+ in revenue. This will be the hardest and most meaningful work of your life. Who You Are (and how you show up) Mission-obsessed. The mental health gap bothers you enough to build the fix. Owner's mindset. You grab the problem, simplify, and ship. Weekly. Resourceful as hell. You bias to MVP, learn in production, and improve fast. Resilient. You want the hard thing because the hard thing matters. Clear, candid communicator. Crisp async writing; short demos; low-ego reviews. Efficiency and Output Driven: Comfortable leaning hard on tools like Cursor, Claude, or Copilot to move 2x faster, or excited to learn and get there fast. What You'll Build (and why it matters) End-to-end product slices that remove friction between someone in crisis and someone who can help. Check really.global to see where we are. Here's what's next: Add recurring calendar availability Publish existing SEO content at scale and optimize the site Roll out the Hotline Complete Talk Now (instant sessions) and Find Matches (survey → ranked suggestions) Add location-based navigation Add site-wide translation and real-time audio translation API/MCP integrations Our stack: Next.js/React on the front; Python services; Postgres underneath; GitHub, AI-assisted workflows (Cursor/Copilot) to move faster without lowering the bar. The Deal: Transparent Equity Partnership Merit-based ownership. Contribution translates directly to equity from a dedicated 5% contributor pool. Your stake grows with every outcome you ship. Points-for-outcomes system. We measure contribution in Story Points, a standard unit of complexity, not hours. This rewards your efficiency and impact. All work is valued. You earn points not just for new features, but also for essential “glue work” like bug fixes, documentation, and incident response. Real shipped value. Ownership accrues only when your work is reviewed by a peer (reviewer ≠ author), merged, and live in production. To protect our quality bar, we have a "regression clawback" for code that causes critical bugs. Clear commitment & vesting. We use a 6-month active contribution cliff with a minimum monthly point threshold to ensure we're a great fit. After the cliff, your grant vests over a 3-year period. Quarterly tranches. We calculate and update your accrued share from the dedicated pool each quarter; any unallocated equity rolls forward to the next. This ensures early contributions are fairly rewarded without burning through the pool. High-impact bounties. Mission-critical milestones (e.g., Talk Now launch) carry outsized point rewards to align effort with key business goals. Locked-in stake. When we close our first priced funding round, the program freezes and everyone's earned percentage becomes a fixed part of our cap table. No hours theater. No politics. Value in production = ownership. All details are codified in a formal, transparent agreement covering vesting, IP, and security. Why This Will Define Your Career Build Your US Track Record: This is your entry point into the US startup ecosystem. You aren't outsourcing; you are a partner. USD-Denominated Upside: You are trading time now for ownership in a dollar-based asset ($100M+ target valuation). Direct Access: You work directly with US founders. No middle management. No "local office" politics. Human Impact: Your code will literally save lives in 200+ countries, including your own. Are You the One? If you felt a fire light up reading this—if the scale excites you more than it scares you—we want to hear from you. This isn't for everyone. But for the right person, this is the opportunity of a lifetime. To Apply: Send: GitHub (or 1-2 PRs you're proud of) If you can include links to the actual PRs or issues (and a sentence or two of context), even better. A short note: why this mission, and one gnarly problem you've shipped through If you talk in hours, skip. If you talk in shipped outcomes, welcome.