I've worked for a brief period with family before and it can quickly become a complicated situation. A few words of wisdom from my experience: 1) Establish wh

I've worked for a brief period with family before and it can quickly become a complicated situation. A few words of wisdom from my experience: 1) Establish what your role is and what aspects of the company you control: Just because it's your family, doesn't mean you'll suddenly get a lot of control. When I was brought on as a Operations Manager I thought I had a lot of freedom to control how things operated. However, I quickly realized that my parents and their business partners still saw me as an employee rather than a strategic partner. Making this clear up front and observe how they react when you offer strategic solutions. Do they brush you off or do they act on it? 2) What are realistic contributions you can make to the company and do they align with your goals? Your comments about your parent's hesitancy to put additional money into the company means you'll have to fight to hire a developer and update the core product. If you lose this fight, what other opportunities do you see in the company? If you don't see any, then it's probably better to move on and find a project where you have either more control, or more options. Hope this helps.