Hi. I’m Issac, I am the CTO and Co-Founder a tiny startup called Bowtie. I’m looking for some help building an iOS application. You would be the first engineer working on this area. We’ve built desktop and server applications for our network and security product with a team of a half dozen engineers and we are expanding into mobile

About Bowtie:

We build and ship Security and Networking products made for businesses. Customers pick us because our user-experience for their customers is impeccable and because our architecture alleviates security concerns that our competition does not.

About our Team and Stack:

We’re building a network access product with wireguard at the core. There are two parallel implementations of wireguard that should work on iOS and we are building the porcelain and plumbing to make one of them work exceptionally well for remote access in an enterprise environment. Our work is mostly in Rust but I recognize that this is not the best language for every task and that is not a strict requirement for this role. It may be useful, as we have a MacOS implementation which may be able to share a common core. That’s an area I’d like to explore with you.

An Ideal Candidate:

I’d like to see:

• Shipped work in iOS or MacOS as a sole or primary contributor in C, C++ or Rust
• Demonstrated conversational capability with networking topics

We’re looking for a contract and we are flexible on the terms. While nothing is guaranteed, we expect to open full time roles in this area as soon as possible.

• We’re looking to ship a proof-of-concept quickly and iterate toward a more-perfect solution over time.

Restrictions:

• We’re remote first, but I need some overlap with US working hours, or a demonstrated ability to work quickly and productively over asynchronous email/slack.
• We’re currently set up to hire contractors in the US, Canada and many other countries, but if you’re not in one of those, please let me know so I can check.

The role:

• We are currently imagining this as a short term contract with a competent freelancer to get to the minimum viable iOS client. Our success in this business will require long term work and dedicated engineers in this area. For the current moment we are just trying to prove baseline functionality. We would like to talk to you to scope the work and determine milestones, budget and success criteria.