Senior Backend Engineer, Ava
$130-160k
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Professional & AI-based captions for the deaf
Job no longer available
Professional & AI-based captions for the deaf
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$130-160k
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
Ava’s mission is to empower 450 million deaf & hard-of-hearing people to a totally accessible world.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- 3+ years working in distributed systems
- NodeJS, TypeScript, cloud native solutions (AWS, GCP, etc)
- Backend heavy, data-intensive applications
- Proficient experience with non-relation databases (Mongo, Firestore)
- An effectively use / has implemented observability solutions (Elasticsearch, Datadog, ELK)
- Welcomes a dynamic team structure (startups...)
- Experience working with unit testing frameworks (Jest, Mocha)
- Experience bringing smaller products to scale or working at high scale needs
- Willingness to learn new technologies
- Problem-solving, business oriented when thinking of solutions
- You're a great and articulate teammate
- If you've successfully built and scaled systems in a team setting. Is able to articulate well and work together in a highly agile environment. Is looking for a challenging experience to make a big social. And thrives in an early startup environment and all it's associated challenged. This would be great position for you
Desirable
- You're familiar with WebRTC, Audio processing, Streams
- You've designed complex real-time systems such as live chats, call-cents, etc (peer-to-peer communications)
- BS in Computer Science
- Working experience with setting up integration testing suites
What the job involves
- We're looking for an experienced Backend Developer to the team to help take the product to the next level for a larger audience and help improve the scalability, reliability and performance of our real-time application
- Scale Ava as a key communication service millions of deaf/hard-of-hearing users & their peers can rely on
- Make our real-time communication needs (Websockets, audio streaming) more fault tolerant and lower latency
- Conceive
- Increase maintainability of our source code with improved design patterns, refactors
- Improving the reliability of our real-time audio & text sync service
- Conceive algorithms to accommodate real-time multi-editing and audio processing
- Write our new API to accelerate & build integrations with multiple complementary productivity & communication services
- Collaborate with decision of our road-map
Our take
Ava uses artificial as well as human intelligence to instantly transcribe what people say, to allow workplaces to be more inclusive for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. The company counts a number of major international brands amongst its customers, including Hilton and FedEx.
What makes Ava’s offering so impactful is that it can integrate with all major media and communication apps, from Facebook Live to Zoom, to instantly generate captions of live or recorded content. Beyond this however, Ava can also be used in in-person meetings, school, and daily life, as well as in video calls.
While it’s available to individual customers, it’s quite likely that Ava will continue to focus on business customers, as they are now increasingly keen to put accessibility and inclusion at the core of their operations.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
May 2022
$10m
SERIES A
Dec 2020
$4.5m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $16.4m
Company benefits
- Meaningfully impact lives, at scale: How often do you hear about apps that make people cry with joy?
- Join at an incredible time: Ava is well-funded and a hit product-market fit, You'd join at the perfect time to shape the culture.
- Work with some of the best people in the world: Ava has an incredibly talented and passionate team.
- Tackle the most interesting and impactful problems: The team is still small, and people wear many hats.
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Thibault Duchemin
(CEO)Forbes 30 under 30, MIT Innovators Under 35 - Humanitarians. Former Data Scientist Consultant at UC Berkeley. Former Project Manager/Analytics Associate at cloud-based predictive intelligence application AgilOne.
Has overseen all tech development, including Android and iOS native application development at Ava. Prior to co-founding Ava, worked as a software engineer at a number of major Taiwanese and Chinese companies, including Hypertech Inc and Matronics International.
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