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Backend Scala/Python Developer

$30k - $50k / 0.10% - 1.00%
Location
Remote / Remote
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
3+ years
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Angelo K. Huang
Angelo K. Huang
Founder

About the role

BlaBla Live is the audio chat platform for language learners. Our goal is to foster a more convenient and fun educational experience for teachers and learners. Founded in 2019, the company has established offices and R&D centers in China and Santa Clara, CA. We believe motivation and incentives are the keys to successful teaching and learning experiences.

We’re looking for people with a strong background or interest in building successful products or systems; you’re comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces; you have exquisite attention to detail, and you’re comfortable learning new technologies. Software engineering and innovation are at the core of our team. As a DevOps Engineer, you will be the core team supporting BlaBla Live products, services, and APIs.

As a Backend Engineer, you will build the core of BlaBla products, services, and APIs in a spectacularly robust fashion.

You will:

  • Design, build and maintain APIs, services, and systems across BlaBla’s engineering, content, and marketing teams
  • Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
  • Work with engineers across the company to build new features at large-scale
  • Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes

You may be fit for this role if you:

  • Enjoy and have experience building backend for mobile applications
  • Think about systems and services and write high-quality code. We work mostly in Scala and Python. However, languages can be learned: we care much more about your general engineering skill than - knowledge of a particular language or framework
  • Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems
  • Take pride in working on projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systems
  • Thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts

What’s it like to work at BlaBla?

BlaBla Live was launched in 2020 and accelerated by the Y Combinator program. We have grown predominantly in Asia, and many of the users are college students and young professionals in their early 20s from Taiwan, Indonesia, China, and the US, among others.

Our newly deployed audio chat room’s monthly retention is over 50%, indicating that users are coming back to join the chatroom, again and again. The average feedback score for audio chat rooms was 5 out of 5 from over 1000 feedback collected by Dec 2021. Our research suggests that the audio chat room further drives teachers to showcase their talents more effectively or enables new forms of digital learning in real-time.

We look at BlaBla Live as a constant work in progress. We’re here to support each other in our curiosity and creativity – which we pursue thoughtful discussion and knowledge-sharing among a diverse set of peers and colleagues. We want to hear from you and share with you our vision. We will love to connect people passionate about language learning and knowledge sharing as much as we do.

Why you should join BlaBla Live

BlaBla Live is the live streaming platform for language learners. Our goal is to foster a more convenient and fun educational experience for teachers and learners. Founded in 2019, the company has established offices and R&D centers in China and Santa Clara, CA. We believe motivation and incentives are the keys to successful teaching and learning experiences. We’re looking for people with a strong background or interest in building successful products or systems; you’re comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces; you have exquisite attention to detail, and you’re comfortable learning new technologies. Software engineering and innovation are at the core of our team.

BlaBla Live
Founded:2019
Team Size:16
Location:Santa Clara, CA
Founders
Angelo K. Huang
Angelo K. Huang
Founder