Build the infrastructure of human connection with us

Ava started as an app-based captioning system, and is quickly expanding in use cases. Our users want to bring it at work, at school, project captions, and have other people edit in real-time the transcription to help them.

We're looking for a Backend Engineer with Full Stack chops who will take the lead on building the infrastructure to support a multi-platform, live experience of Ava while we scale our user base. If you care about a robust product architecture and infrastructure, and are looking to make a huge impact on society, this is a position for you.

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About this Role

You'd be perfect for this role if:

• 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.

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.