Software Engineer, Co–Star Astrology

Salary not provided

AWS

Scala

iOS

Android

Haskell

Mid and Senior level

New York

Remote from US

Personalized social astrology app

Job no longer available

Personalized social astrology app

21-100 employees

B2CLifestyleArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaSMobileeCommerce

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

AWS

Scala

iOS

Android

Haskell

Mid and Senior level

New York

Remote from US

21-100 employees

B2CLifestyleArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaSMobileeCommerce

Company mission

To provide a hyper personalized social experience by bringing astrology into the 21st century.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Some experience writing and shipping code in production. There’s a minimum of 3 years of professional experience and we can hire at a range, from early-career onward
A strong desire to work with Haskell. We realize that most people don’t have work experience with Haskell. Production experience in functional languages (Scala, OCaml, etc.) is a plus, but we believe our technical stack can be taught
A love for documentation and testing. We like to experiment and well-documented, tested code goes a long way to helping us ship quickly and confidently
A pragmatic approach to problem solving with a focus on user problems. Our favorite problems to solve are the ones that have a meaningful impact on our users

Desirable

Some experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS) and databases (we use PostgreSQL)
Knowledge or interest in ML and NLP

What the job involves

Support our mobile apps (we have native iOS and Android apps) through the backend. You’ll build new features and help iterate on existing ones
Help our writers by developing internal tooling and supporting admin features of our Editor tool
Work closely with small, cross-functional teams to provide insight into scope and effort so our product team can shape right-sized solutions

Our take

Co-star is one of the most popular astrology apps in the world right now. Users input their time and place of birth, Co-star then uses AI to analyze data from NASA, providing a personalised daily horoscope for every user.

Powered by a balance of AI and human focused astrology, as well as a clean user experience, the Co-Star app’s popularity has surged. It has over 30 million registered accounts, and around 25% of all young women aged 18-25 in the US have used it. Remarkably, the company claimed to have not put any real marketing effort into this huge uptick.

Whether or not the field remains so popular over the next few years remains to be seen, but the fact that Co-Star has developed a new astrology machine that uses ChatGPT to answer users' questions shows its well set to draw further interest in the company.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Company

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Apr 2021

$15m

SERIES A

Apr 2019

$5.2m

SEED

Total funding: $21m

Company benefits

Fully covered $0 deductible healthcare + vision, dental, and therapy
401(k) + 5% matching
Unlimited vacation + 2 week company-wide recharge at the end of each year
Equipment budget
12 weeks 100% paid parental leave
Readings with in-house astrologers

Company HQ

Tribeca, New York, NY

Leadership

Banu Guler

(Founder & CEO)

Studied Psychology at NYU. Worked for 6 years in Design & Product at Various. Became the Digital Design Lead at ALEX AND ANI. Director of Product & Design at VFILES. Most recently worked as a Consultant at art net.

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