Listening.io | $140k to $200k | Full-time | 0.5% to 1.5% equity | Senior Software Engineer | San Francisco (Hybrid)
Listening turns textbooks and research papers into audio, so students can listen on the go.
We're VC backed and growing like a rocket ship
We're looking for a senior engineer. Primary programming language is Python. Experience with machine learning a plus but not required.
The role involves:
- Improving our PDF extraction functions
- Integrating text-to-audio APIs
- Managing AWS server infrastructure
- Deploying machine learning models
- General backend: performance, reliability, observability, etc.
We move fast and ship things quickly. The code you write will be in users' hands in days. The team is highly technical, no middle management, self-directed.
We meet in SF 2x a week, work from home the rest of the time.
Please contact: [email protected]. Please include a cover letter and resume, and why you're interested in the role.
Listening.io | $140k to $200k | Full-time | 0.5% to 1.5% equity | Senior Software Engineer | San Francisco (Hybrid)
Listening turns textbooks and research papers into audio, so students can listen on the go.
We're VC backed and growing like a rocket ship
We're looking for a senior engineer. Primary programming language is Python. Experience with machine learning a plus but not required.
The role involves:
- Improving our PDF extraction functions
- Integrating text-to-audio APIs
- Managing AWS server infrastructure
- Deploying machine learning models
- General backend: performance, reliability, observability, etc.
We move fast and ship things quickly. The code you write will be in users' hands in days. The team is highly technical, no middle management, self-directed.
We meet in SF 2x a week, work from home the rest of the time.
Please contact: [email protected]. Please include a cover letter and resume, and why you're interested in the role.
Listening.io | Flutter | San Francisco, 50% remote | Full Time or Freelance
Salary: $90k to $135k (or hourly equivalent)
Equity: 0.5% to 2%
Overview -
Listening.io is "Audible for Education". We turn educational materials, like textbooks & research papers, into audiobooks. We're growing fast, and are looking to hire a Flutter engineer.
Our entire team is technical, with no middle managers. You'll get to play with some of the latest technologies in your day-to-day work, including GPT-4 and text-to-speech APIs.
Finally, you'll also own a big piece of equity in a fast-growing, VC-backed startup.
Requirements -
You'll need to be able to single handedly own everything in the mobile app. That means we're looking for someone with a lot of Flutter experience, including fully developing every part of an app.
Although 95% of the work is in Flutter, we do need to bridge into native code ~5% of the time. So we're looking for experience in Flutter, as well as Swift, Kotlin, and native development (XCode / Android Studio).
This is a 50% in person position, so it's local to the SF Bay Area.
Question: Why can't we go faster than the speed of light?
Answer: This is a misconception. The speed of light is the maximum speed at which information can be transmitted. It is not the maximum speed at which objects can move. Objects can move faster than light, and in fact, they do. For example, the speed of light is about 300,000 km/s, but the speed of a jet airplane is about 1,000 km/s, which is much faster.
You can't prevent someone from sending funds to a crypto address.
An address of an insolvent company may not be able to legally return funds; i.e. once they receive funds they may have a fiduciary duty to distribute them in a certain way, for example by order of a bankruptcy court.
tl;dr: They may only be able to ask people not to deposit, but not prevent them from depositing. And if users do deposit, they might not be allowed to give it back.
I hope the "trend" of researchers writing for the public, via books & blog posts, can contribute some incentive towards being clear and intuitive.
I'm thinking about the success of Freakonomics, Thinking Fast and Slow, The Elegant Universe, etc. These are all academics, who've "translated" their research for the masses. That translation ended up being much more impactful - and prestigious - than an intimidating paper.
I hope this becomes more of a trend, and an incentive structure, in the future.
Dropbox ran into a similar issue, but they were on the other side. They wanted Dropbox.com, but someone else owned it. They kept running under a similar name for a while, until Dropbox.com started advertising for their competitors. Then they threatened to sue Dropbox.com, and Dropbox.com sold the domain to them.
There's a really interesting episode on the Tim Ferris podcast, where Drew Houston shares the story.
News sites don't view people as "users" but as "pageviews". Clickbait and SEO drives pageviews, and you monetize pageviews by getting the highest payment per impression.
This obv comes at a long term branding cost - but only large brands like New York Times can really afford to care about the long term. Most news sites are commoditized and barely surviving these days =/
I don't agree with the practice, but I also kind of understand why it's there.
We're VC backed and growing like a rocket ship
We're looking for a senior engineer. Primary programming language is Python. Experience with machine learning a plus but not required.
The role involves:
- Improving our PDF extraction functions
- Integrating text-to-audio APIs
- Managing AWS server infrastructure
- Deploying machine learning models
- General backend: performance, reliability, observability, etc.
We move fast and ship things quickly. The code you write will be in users' hands in days. The team is highly technical, no middle management, self-directed.
We meet in SF 2x a week, work from home the rest of the time.
Please contact: [email protected]. Please include a cover letter and resume, and why you're interested in the role.