We are hiring · Calgary, Canada · shares for every employee

Build the app that
never reads your messages.

TRI1 is a small team building end to end encrypted messaging, calls and identity. Private keys never leave a person's device, and that one rule takes away most of the shortcuts the rest of the industry relies on. If that constraint sounds like the interesting part of the job rather than the annoying part, we should talk.

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Built in Canada · Calgary

What working here is actually like

No corporate poetry. Here is the honest shape of the job.

Privacy is a constraint, not a slogan

It changes how you design

We cannot look inside a message to debug it, we cannot mine behaviour to guess what users want, and we cannot fall back on a phone number to identify anyone. Every feature has to be designed around that. It is harder and it is the reason the product exists.

You own whole features

Small team, no ticket queue

Work here goes from the idea to the code to the real phone in your hand to the line in the release notes. Nobody hands you a spec cut into pieces. If you like seeing the whole thing through, this suits you. If you want a narrow lane, it will not.

It ships to real devices

Android, iOS and the web

Encrypted calls either connect on a real handset on a real network or they do not. You will test on hardware, read logs from live sessions, and find out quickly when something only worked on your machine.

Remote friendly, Calgary hours

Write things down, meet rarely

We work asynchronously and keep meetings few. Where you sit matters less than overlapping enough with Mountain Time to talk when something is on fire.

Part of the pay is ownership

3,000,000 shares are set aside
for the people who work here.

We would rather share the company with the people building it than hand it to someone who only wrote a cheque. Everyone who works here can hold shares out of that pool, alongside their pay, for as long as they are with us.

3,000,000

Shares reserved for employees, not for investors.

Everyone

Every role is eligible, engineering or not.

In writing

Your exact number is agreed and written into your offer before you start. No vague promises.

Shares in a private company are worth something only if the company becomes worth something, and that is not a promise anyone can honestly make. We would rather you know that going in than find out later.

Open roles

Every role below is real and open right now. If none of them fit and you still think you belong here, use the general application at the bottom.

Internship

If you are starting out

You get real work, not coffee runs and a slide deck nobody reads. You will be given something that ships, with someone senior close enough to ask. Studying, recently graduated, or changing careers are all fine. What we need to see is that you can teach yourself and finish things.

Senior

Ten years, or a track record

Either a decade doing this properly, or work you can point at that makes the decade beside the point. We care about what you have actually shipped and sold, not the length of the CV. Tell us the thing you are proudest of and what it did.

3 open roles

Sales

Full time Intern or senior

Calgary or remoteRevenueShares includedPosted 2026-08-10

Messaging and calls are free for people, and they always will be. The revenue comes from businesses and builders: business pages, paid branding, and API access. That is what you sell.

What you would work on

  • Sell business pages and branding to owners who want a professional presence behind a QR code people scan.
  • Take the API to developers and companies who need private messaging inside their own product.
  • Run the whole cycle yourself: first contact, a demo on a real phone, the close, and the relationship afterwards.
  • Bring back what you keep hearing. In a team this size, an objection you hear twice can change the roadmap.

What we look for

  • You have closed business yourself, not only supported someone else who did.
  • You can demo software without a script, and answer a technical question honestly, including saying you do not know yet.
  • You understand what a company this size is: there is no list of warm leads waiting for you on day one.
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Marketing

Full time Intern or senior

Calgary or remoteGrowthShares includedPosted 2026-08-10

TRI1 works, and almost nobody has heard of it. This role exists to change that, in a market where the audience is suspicious of marketing by nature and can smell an exaggeration from a long way off.

What you would work on

  • Own the story people read before they install: the download page, the store listing, the FAQ, the launch posts.
  • Turn the site from a link we send people into a page people find on their own. Search, content, the terms that actually get typed.
  • Run releases like they matter. A new version should reach the people it helps, not sit quietly on a server.
  • Build a presence from zero: social, community, and the places privacy-minded people already gather.

What we look for

  • You have marketed something people had a real choice about, and you can point at what moved and why.
  • Plain, honest writing. The entire product argument is that we do not overstate things, so the copy cannot either.
  • You are at peace with the fact that we cannot follow users around to measure you. We work from what we can see without spying.
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Business Development

Full time Intern or senior

Calgary or remotePartnershipsShares includedPosted 2026-08-10

The work that is not a straight sale: partnerships, distribution, resellers, and getting TRI1 in front of organisations where private communication is not a preference but a requirement.

What you would work on

  • Find and build partnerships in sectors where privacy is not optional, and bring them from a first conversation to a signed agreement.
  • Open distribution routes beyond the app stores, which is a real advantage for us: the app installs directly from our own site.
  • Work with the team on what we can and cannot agree to, and hold the line on the one rule that does not bend: private keys never leave a person's device.
  • Represent TRI1 where decisions get made, from industry events to a room with one skeptical director in it.

What we look for

  • Partnerships you actually shipped, not agreements that were announced and then quietly expired.
  • You can explain encryption to someone non-technical without making it sound like magic or like homework.
  • You will be asked whether we can hand over message content. You need to be able to say no, explain why we could not even if we wanted to, and keep the deal alive.
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