What are the responsibilities and job description for the Founding AI Mobile App Engineer - VitalSpark position at VitalSpark AI?
About VitalSpark and Bea
We're VitalSpark, and we're creating Bea, an AI agent who is a specialist in motivation, and a guide to your fitness journey. Think of Bea as your personal fitness buddy who's always there to give you that extra push. She learns your preferences and habits and uses the best guidance for fitness and behavioral science to create a personalized plan just for you. Our goal? To help you get healthier, happier, and help our customers achieve their long-term health goals. Check out our Demo video for a glimpse of our vision.
Why We're Doing This
We're not just building another chatbot. We're on a mission. If Bea succeeds in moving someone from the bottom quintile in heart health to the next quintile, we will cut their mortality in half. Imagine the impact of that on millions of people. Everyone deserves to live a happier, healthier life, and we believe Bea can help make that happen for people at all fitness levels.
Who We Are
We're a small team of committed startup veterans who have a couple of unicorns under our belts. We expect to achieve our goals with a small team and build a company with substantial revenue and major impact. Our team members have brought scores of new-to-the-world products to market. We're looking for someone who's excited to join us on this journey and help bring Bea to life. We have a unique and powerful pathway to market. We prioritize moving faster than other startups in the space.
App Engineer Role
You are part of the founding team. You will play a pivotal role in shaping VitalSpark. You’re a mobile app engineer through and through—you just love it. In this role, you'll be building an AI agent, and that excites you. You're driven by the need to create, and bringing the experience for our members to life. You are stoked to integrate the best voice AI into Bea. You will be coding each and every workday.
Collaboration is your game—you work well with everyone, including your AI coding assistants. You’ve successfully harnessed AI tools to build iOS apps and may have arm wrestled with your AI partner. You see the tremendous potential in collaborating with AI as it continues to evolve. You'll also have the chance to work closely with our Emmy-winning designer/animator to continuously refine Bea, our inspiring AI agent.
You’ve guided multiple apps through every stage of their journey, from a spark of an idea all the way to launching on the App Store. And while you may have a soft spot for iOS, you’re more than willing to lead or contribute to our Android app development efforts, because both platforms are vital for growing our community. You will start out by being the only mobile app expert in our small team. You know cold REST APIs, auth protocols, A/B testing, app analytics, and App Store Connect…. Our iOS app is currently written in Swift. We are planning to use Kotlin for Android.
We thrive on rapid iteration and early releases. And while remote work is great, being in our awesome Harvard Square office on most days will give you fantastic opportunities to collaborate directly with the team.
Essentially, we need someone who's both technically skilled and excited about helping Bea become the best personal trainer on the planet.
VitalSpark offers competitive salaries and generous early stage equity.
Principals only please.