Build and improve Trala’s iOS violin-learning app, including lesson functionality, iPad support, product experiments, and algorithms that analyze raw audio to detect beginner playing mistakes and provide immediate feedback.
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Trala is teaching the world violin. Our iOS app provides high-quality violin lessons anywhere, anytime, and at a tenth of the price of a human teacher. It teaches users a new note/skill via instructional videos and images, listens to users play their real violin, and gives immediate feedback (move your finger up/down, etc.). We’ve already given over 10,000 lessons and we’re looking for a talented engineer to join us full time in Chicago to help us become the center of the violin universe. Working at Trala, you'll have:
- Opportunity to shape the future of violin education.
- Direct daily impact on thousands of users.
- Freedom to engineer new features with broad goals.
- Access to any other part of the company. All our meetings are open to everyone. Want to learn more about marketing? Just join the meeting.
- Competitive salary, stock options, health/dental/vision benefits, etc.
The iOS Engineer will be the first outside engineering hire on the team. In this role, you will be building out and iterating on key functionality central to the violin learning experience. You'll do things like:
- Build the lessons thousands of users use to learn violin
- Write algorithms to detect common beginner mistakes from raw audio data
- Figure out which feedback mechanism drives the most engagement via product experiments
- Build out an iPad version
- 1+ years experience writing iOS/Swift apps
- Ability to learn quickly and hit the ground running in a startup environment
- History of ambitious side projects, original ideas, and getting things done
- BS in CS/ECE
- No musical knowledge necessary
- Must be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Trala, Inc. Chicago, Illinois, USA Office
Chicago, IL, United States, 60603
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