vvd is the modern storytelling toolkit — used today by thousands of worldbuilders, writers, game masters, and tabletop RPG creators. Think interactive maps, relationship graphs, a living wiki, rich text editor, real-time collab, custom-domain publishing. The long-term vision is the Substack for fiction: a place where people can build worlds, write campaigns and stories inside them, and share or monetize that work with a real audience.

Bootstrapped, profitable trajectory, ~$500k ARR, founded out of Montreal by Zied Jebali (ex-Unity, ex-Ubisoft Montréal) and Haseeb S. The Substack-side newsletter has 57k+ subscribers and the Discord community is highly engaged. We're intentionally raising only from the right partner. You'd be employee #3 — our third full-time hire.

A front-end engineer with genuinely good taste. You can take an idea, break it down, design it, and ship a polished, interactive version of it without waiting for a perfect spec. You live where how things look meets how they work — you don't just design screens, you build them, and you obsess over whether they feel right.

You don't need to be a deep backend engineer, but you understand the stack end-to-end (APIs, auth, data flow, Postgres / SQL basics) well enough that nothing blocks you.

• Design and implement features end-to-end — concept → design → production.
• Own the front-end experience: layout, interaction, motion, polish.
• Work directly with the founders. Iterate in hours, not weeks.
• Move fast with AI-powered dev tools (Cursor, Claude Code, etc.) — at vvd this is the default way of building, not a novelty.
• Shape the product itself, not just execute on tickets. We want your opinion.
• Communicate directly. No corporate padding.

• Taste. This is the single biggest filter. We'll look at your portfolio first. Genuine aesthetic judgment, not pixel-counting.
• You've shipped real things. Side projects, indie launches, class projects, small apps — anything you can walk us through: what you built, why, what broke, and how you solved it.
• Creative-tools DNA. You've worked on video games, creative SaaS, design tools, or another product where craft matters. Or you're a worldbuilder / writer / TTRPG player yourself — you get the audience.
• Startup energy. People who've been founders (even if the company went nowhere), early hires, or builders who ship on the side stand out.
• Ownership > pedigree. We don't care where you went to school or which logos are on your resume.

• Strong front-end chops: React, TypeScript, Next.js (or similar).
• Comfortable enough with backend to be dangerous — APIs, auth, data flow, Postgres / SQL basics.
• You can go from a rough idea to a polished, interactive implementation without a perfect spec.
• You use AI tools daily as a multiplier (Cursor, Claude Code) — prompt well, iterate, ship at a high quality bar.
• You've built interactions and motion that felt good, not just functional.

• Figma or similar for rapid prototyping.
• You read fiction, build worlds, run a TTRPG game on weekends, or otherwise create things for fun.
• You care about accessibility and inclusive UX.

Fully remote, with strong preference for time-zone overlap with Montreal.

Canada preferred: Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto. We get Canadian hiring subsidies and can support relocation conversations.
Remote OK in Western Europe: Berlin, Munich, and similar (Germany, UK, France work well historically).

Main operating time zones: North America + Western Europe.

$120k–$150k USD/CAD + equity. Final offer depends on level and location.