Algorithmic Backend Engineer

Build the infrastructure of human connection with us.

Why this Role?

• Actually change lives at an unprecedented scale: How often do you hear about apps that make people cry of joy? It is really for us a unique opportunity and privilege to be able to meaningfully improve the lives of 100,000s of people - and yet to still be at the very beginning of our mission!
• Join us at an incredible time: We're well-funded and hit product-market fit, which gives us a huge green field to work with. You'd join at the perfect time to shape what we build and how we grow, so we can create a more inclusive world.
• Work with some of the best people in the world: We have an incredibly talented and passionate team that is a lot of fun to work with. We're still super small and have accomplished some things that were thought impossible!
• Tackle our most interesting and impactful problems: Our team is still small, and people wear many hats. You'd jump between product, marketing, internal tools, process — participating in every phase from inception to implementation. Absolutely no boredom.

So... what will you do as a Backend Engineer at Ava?

• You'll help scale Ava as a key communication service millions of deaf/hard-of-hearing users & their peers can rely on.
• You'll design and build a reliable and performant infrastructure on projects - such as improving the reliability of our realtime audio & text sync service.
• You'll conceive algorithms to accommodate real time multi-editing and audio processing.
• You'll write our new API to accelerate & build integrations with multiple complementary productivity & communication services.
• You'll be designing and improving key security features to keep Ava safe for all, including for our professional users.
• You have experience scaling production software. You've worked on a product experiencing rapid growth and understand what needs to be done to scale to the next level.
• You can readily learn most technologies as you go. To you, technologies are about tools and tradeoffs, not an ideology.
• You care about the business implications of anything you build. You're not just going after cool stuff — you understand the balance between craft, speed, and the bottom line.
• You're fluent with Typescript, NodeJS, bash, Python (basics), algorithmic basics, AWS, Jenkins, Docker, Terraform.
• Bonus: You have dabbled into React.js
• Bonus: You've spent meaningful time as a senior engineer or tech lead — or even better, you've managed a team before.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.