Remote · Part-time, project-based · Competitive rate, with equity available for ongoing relationships · Could convert to full-time role in NYC

Why koodos labs

koodos labs is a consumer AI research and product company building toward a future where the internet knows you and can do things for you, on your terms. Read about the co-founders and their story here. We’ve raised 3 (unannounced) rounds from the world’s leading investors, and our Board is comprised of Pinterest’s co-founder, Facebook’s first head of monetization and a leading GP.

What we're building

Shelf is used by millions of people to track what they're watching, reading, and listening to, and to keep up with what others are into. It connects to your favorite platforms, gives you back insights from your behavior, and will soon let you share that context with services to enable personalized intelligence on your own terms.

The opportunity

Shelf is now native iOS. We moved off Capacitor onto Swift/SwiftUI specifically to chase the things that make iOS feel like iOS. Gestures that read your intent. App Clips. Widgets and Live Activities that do real work on the lockscreen. Motion that anticipates the touch. The kind of frame-by-frame craft that separates apps people use from apps people love.

We have strong design taste leading our system and strong architecture leading the harder iOS surfaces. What we're missing is the person who lives at the seam between them. Someone who treats a 50ms hitch as a bug, who can look at a Rive transition and know whether it should be eased differently, and who ships features that feel inevitable on the platform.

We are seeking someone who'll pair closely with our designer, but also can make design and product decisions within the bounds of our design system to elevate the experience as a whole and bring it to a strong baseline from what feels like a mostly frankensteined experience today.

The work

This is a role with real ownership of the surfaces that define how Shelf feels.

The marquee work, in flight or upcoming:

• Define and ship the iOS moments that become Shelf's signature. The Live Activity that quietly tracks what you're currently watching, reading, or listening to. The lockscreen widget that becomes a daily ritual. The App Clip that lets a friend add something to your shelf in two taps. These are surfaces being designed in collaboration, not handed down.
• Lead the manual item search and addition flow as a craft surface, not a form. This is one of the most-touched paths in the app. The bar is "feels native to iOS in 2026," not "works."
• Own tap handlers, transitions, and interaction polish on insight surfaces. Weekly recap, micro-app experiences, category and item pages. The places where motion is the product.

Supporting work, alongside the marquee:

• Brand integration across the app as the new visual system rolls deeper
• Profile view refinements
• Polish where they materially raise the bar (completion edge cases, font and styling consistency)