Climber & Tech co-founder

Overview

NIVA is the platform connecting all climbing and outdoor sports enthusiasts, offering a complete experience for both end users and business operators. For users, it's the matching app for the vertical: it helps find climbing partners based on skills, experience, and location, solving a common problem where climbers struggle to organize and often rely on fragmented channels. Users can create and join events, boosting social engagement and trust within the community.

On the business side, NIVA provides targeted solutions for two types of stakeholders: gyms and event organizers benefit from innovative micro-SaaS solutions; companies offering outdoor products and services gain a direct, highly-targeted marketing channel for reaching their ideal audience. Starting with climbing, NIVA aims to evolve into a global networking platform for outdoor sports, first extending to other vertical sports, then to water sports (such as sailing, surfing, and windsurfing). The vision is to become the social network for sporting adventures, bridging the digital and physical worlds with a focus on trust, social connection, and a shared passion for nature.

Who you are

We are looking for a tech co-founder who is not just a "technician" but brings a strategic vision for technology and product development. The goal is for NIVA to become the go-to platform for building outdoor communities. A passion for climbing or outdoor activities is essential; we need someone who deeply understands our challenges and can collaboratively develop creative solutions. Lastly, we’re looking for someone with a broad outlook, who thrives in an innovative, ever-changing environment, and has international ambitions.

Responsibilities

You will be responsible for defining the best technical direction to achieve NIVA's Mission, including architectural choices, technologies, frameworks, and models to adopt. You’ll contribute to shaping the technology roadmap (both short- and medium-term) and be the first to get your hands dirty and experiment alongside us.

Qualifications

What we’re looking for: We’re not going to focus too much on your CV when choosing you in this venture — many important qualities don’t show up on paper, and a master’s degree doesn’t necessarily mean competence. However, experience in startups is valued, more for the agile mindset and approach than for specific hard skills, and the ability to develop a product is essential. Experience with community app development projects is appreciated, but even more so, the drive, capability, and commitment to stay up-to-date and seize new opportunities before others do. We also value a history of healthy failures as we’d love to hear how those experiences have strengthened you both personally and professionally. Tenacity, combined with pragmatism, and the willingness to take significant risks alongside us are essential. International experience and strong English and Italian language skills are a plus. Finally, we ask for a commitment of at least 20 hours a week to effectively move the project forward.

Required Skills : We’re looking for a few specific technical skills that are very important at this stage:

• Front-end : Flutter and Blazor
• Back-end : .Net Core
• Database : Relational databases, especially MySQL

If you’re missing any of these but are highly motivated, tell us how you plan to fill in these gaps.

What We Offer

A dream and a purpose : if NIVA doesn’t represent this for you, then you’re not the co-founder we’re looking for.

We offer dedication, loyalty, and a startup vision worth risking a few years of your life for , with an equitable share of the equity. We give you the opportunity to help shape the vision, challenge the status quo, and trust your expertise in making decisions. We offer the chance to work on a project that we believe will bring as much satisfaction as stress . And when we can afford it, a fair salary (but if this is your main motivation, you’re not the right fit). In short, we offer the chance to do what you love every day, alongside other passionate people who made the same choice.

You’ll work closely with the other founders . For the technical development, you’ll be supported by other tech resources , the same team who built the app. We don’t have physical offices, but there will be plenty of opportunities to meet in person (maybe for a climb or ski trip together).

Lastly, what are our values ? Here are a few ideas: passion and motivation, transparency and trust, creativity and freedom, perseverance and pragmatism (“done is better”), responsibility, and independence.

Details

• Seniority level : Mid-Senior level
• Employment type : Part-time
• Job function : Business Development and Sales
• Industries : Technology, Information and Media

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