Salary Unpaid
Equity To be negotiated

Cleenki, building the future of home cleaning

Cleenki is an AI-native marketplace for home cleaning, based in Stockholm, Sweden. We already have a working business with over 100 paying recurring customers and steady growth, and now we are looking for the first technical person to build the product and the platform underneath it with us.

This is not an idea on paper. The business is live, customers are paying, and the foundation is proven. What we need now is someone to take ownership of the technology and build it with us from the ground up.


About Cleenki

We are fixing a broken industry. Traditional cleaning companies pay cleaners poorly and treat them as disposable, which leads to constant churn and unreliable service for customers. Cleenki flips this: our cleaners work for themselves, get fair pay and recurring income, and genuinely care about their customers. Happy cleaners create happy customers, and that is our edge.

Our long-term vision is to build the AI-native operating system that any cleaner or small cleaning company can run their entire business on. We start in Stockholm, then expand across Sweden, the Nordics, and beyond.


The role

You will be the founding engineer and own the technical side of Cleenki from the ground up. In the first months, you will focus on:

  • Building out our scheduling system

  • Integrating payments

  • Building a dedicated interface for cleaners

Our stack is React Native (mobile) and Node.js/Express (backend).


How we work together

I handle growth, customers, cleaners, operations, and fundraising. You build. We complement each other, and together we turn a proven business into a category-defining platform.


What we offer

  • Significant founding equity (negotiable based on commitment and experience), with a vesting and cliff period

  • The chance to build something with genuine traction and a clear mission from day one

  • Full ownership of the technical side of a live, growing business


Honest expectations

Cleenki is bootstrapped today, so this is a part-time, equity-only role until we raise our first round of funding, at which point it becomes a full-time, compensated position. You will need to be based in Sweden, and the role is remote.


Who you are

  • A strong builder who can take ownership and ship

  • Comfortable working independently in an early-stage, fast-moving environment

  • Genuinely excited about the mission, not just the tech

  • Based in Sweden


Interested?

Apply though The Hub and tell me why you think you are the right fit for this role. Skip the generic cover letter, I want to hear how you think.

For more information or questions please contact us at support@cleenki.com

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Near public transit
Near public transit

Remote work allowed
Remote work allowed

Social gatherings
Social gatherings

Equity package
Equity package

Mental health support
Mental health support

Wellness
Wellness

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Working at
Cleenki

Cleenki is building an AI-native marketplace for home cleaning to help busy households in Sweden book trusted, recurring cleaning in seconds, while giving independent cleaners fair pay and the tools to build a stable business. Our secret sauce: by treating cleaners well and letting them work for themselves, we turn motivated cleaners into loyal, long-term customer relationships that traditional agencies cannot match. The cleaning industry is built on a broken chain. Traditional cleaning companies pay low wages and treat cleaners poorly, which kills motivation. Unmotivated, underpaid cleaners churn constantly, which makes it hard for customers to find a reliable local cleaner and build a long-term relationship. The result is a poor customer experience across the entire industry: no-shows, inconsistent quality, and constant turnover on both sides of a market that should be built on trust and recurring stability. This affects almost every busy household in Sweden. With RUT making professional cleaning affordable for a large share of the population, demand is huge, yet the experience for both customers and the people doing the actual work has barely improved in decades. Cleenki is a marketplace that matches households with vetted independent cleaners and turns one-off jobs into recurring relationships. Customers book in minutes, pay securely by card, and keep the same cleaner over time. Our edge is the cleaners themselves. On Cleenki, cleaners work for themselves or run small cleaning businesses, so they genuinely care about their customers and do the little extra every single time. We are deeply focused on cleaner wellbeing, because we know that motivated, fairly treated cleaners are what create happy, loyal customers. We take a cut of each booking, and over time we are building the operating system underneath the marketplace: automated scheduling, payments, subscriptions, and the daily operations a cleaning business needs to run, so any cleaner or small company can eventually run their entire business on Cleenki. We are live and growing steadily, with over 100 paying recurring customers and 10 to 25 one-off bookings per month. The cleaning industry is outdated. Customers demand convenience, cleaners demand fairness, and sustainability matters more than ever. Cleenki delivers all three at exactly the right moment. We start in Stockholm, then expand across Sweden, the Nordics, and beyond. Before Cleenki, I started a traditional cleaning company (Cleanest Sweden AB). That is where I really got to know the industry from the inside. I interviewed and worked with dozens of cleaners, and over and over I heard the same two patterns. The first was unfair treatment: low pay, stressful schedules, and managers who simply did not care about them as people. The second was a dream. Almost every cleaner I spoke to wanted the same thing: to work for themselves, on their own terms. That is what fired the spark. I realized the cleaning industry is broken in a way that hurts everyone at once. Cleaners carry the whole business on their backs but are treated as disposable, and customers suffer the consequences through constant turnover and unreliable service. Cleenki is my way of fixing both sides at the same time: giving cleaners the independence, fair pay, and recurring income they dream of, and giving households cleaners who actually care. This is not just a booking app to me. It is a mission to give an overlooked workforce ownership over their working lives.

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