Position: Key NodeJS Engineer
Company: TurnKey Labs
Category: Node.js
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

About the client

Viva Translate is breaking down language barriers with AI and neural machine translation to deliver low-cost and effortless communication across languages, enabling accurate, effortless, and scalable communication between professionals and their customers.

We help professionals better support their clients abroad, improving overall customer satisfaction and operational efficiency.

Stack: MERN — Mongo, Express, React Native, Node. Viva Translate’s current application is web-based, but we are porting our application to mobile with React Native. Our machine translation model is written with Python and FastAPI, but the full-stack developer does not need to know Python. We host on Google Cloud and have engineers to help maintain. On security, we aim to be SOC2 compliant. We have a staging server and unit tests. We also have our team regularly test the app, and expect our engineers to do the same on the staging server with new changes.

Team: 6 people — CEO, COO, Operations Associate, NLP engineer, Designer, and React Native engineer.

We have:

~ Launched our product with 5 organizations that touch the lives of millions of non-English speakers in the US. 🚀 🐣
~ Venture-backing from top investors in Silicon Valley and advisors from Stanford professors.
~ Non-English speaking users that rate Viva Translate “10 out of 10” compared to a human interpreter!

What you’ll do:

~ Help guide our overall strategy through software development and research.
~ Responsible (together with the team members) for the Infrastructure platform, up-time, architecture & scale
~ Leading a team of engineers.
~ Partner closely with sales to incorporate feature requests.
~ Balance speed and quality, with a focus on tangible results.
~ Take a major part in our strategic growth — technology and process-wise

We’re looking for engineers who have:

~ 5+ years experience with the end-to-end life cycle of Agile software development
~ 3+ years experience with Node.js (MERN stack)
~ Experience building production-ready products end-to-end
~ Attention to detail
~ Proven record of shipping features on time and on budget
~ Organized and self-sufficient
~ Experience leading an engineering team is a plus
~ Experience with ReactJS/React Native is a plus

What You Get

~ Unlimited PTO for any reason, including sick days (no specified limits), flexible work schedule;
~ Personal laptop (MacBook Pro);
~ Trainings, certifications, conferences;
~ Private health & dental insurance;
~ Remote/coworking work;
~ Accounting and legal support required to file taxes.

By working at Viva Translate you’ll be contributing to a small and growing, closely-knit team in a fast-paced work environment. A start-up mindset to work hard, apply your knowledge to find solutions, take ownership, work with moderate supervision and have a lot of fun is essential! If you have that — we want to hear from you!