Ava wants to radically improve how we humans communicate with each other. Their first step is to empower 450M deaf and hard-of-hearing people to a fully accessible world. Ava is now looking for a Full Stack Web Developer who will take the lead on building out the Ava experience on the web. If you care about all the details that makes a first experiences become magical for a new user, and are looking to make a huge impact on society, this is a position for you.

Every day, millions of people are excluded from conversations because they cannot hear well what others say. Ava's CEO Thibault grew up in a Deaf family and saw firsthand how the world was not accessible for them. Together with their CTO Skinner — deaf since age 2 — Thibault co-founded Ava to make live captioning of conversations as easy as turning on captions on TV.

Ava's small but fast-growing team has reinvented AI-based speech recognition technology to be in service of people who need it the most. They dream of a 24/7 accessible world, without any communication barrier.

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

What you will be doing at Ava:

• You'll conceive and build of key features from the Ava app to the web: through conception, research, maintenance, and polish.

• You'll build improvements to performance, reliability, product polish and release delivery process — for example, delivering a web-based performance close to the app version, or making the work of real-time transcribers seamless.

• You'll work on their website alongside their growth team to optimize their acquisition funnel and create a great first impression to newcomers.

   

Things that make you a good fit:

• You've built and maintained quality user interfaces that have reached a large audience, ideally while the product is experiencing rapid growth.

• 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 diligent and patient, have an eye for detail, and passion for a high-quality finish.

• You're fluent with React, Node, Typescript, CSS

• Bonus: MS in Computer Science

   

What's special about 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 Ava's mission!

• Join Ava at an incredible time: They're well-funded and hit product-market fit, which gives them a huge green field to work with. You'd join at the perfect time to shape what they build and how they grow, so Ava can create a more inclusive world.

• Work with some of the best people in the world: They have an incredibly talented and passionate team that is a lot of fun to work with. Ava is still super small and have accomplished some things that were thought impossible!

• Tackle their most interesting and impactful problems: Ava's 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.

   

Mandatory:

• To be eligible to apply for this position through Startuplifers you must be currently studying towards a degree or have graduated from a Finnish or a Swedish university

• Send your applications by 14 Dec 2020.

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