Aura Home, Inc.
Aura sells a leading smart frame for your home, marrying sophisticated technology with thoughtful design. The Aura Frame is designed to be both beautiful and easy-to-use, while providing powerful automatic photo curation features. Aura's customers rave about the product online and in-person, as it provides immediate and private connection with your closest family, at any physical distance. We are sold online and at retail, including Best Buy, Bloomingdales, and Nordstrom.
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Senior Rails Engineer New York, NY, United States
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Senior iOS Engineer New York, NY, United States or San Francisco, CA, United States
Why join us?
We've grown sales 300% YoY, and are on track to continue rapid sales growth in the years to come.
Our founders previously founded Summize, which was acquired by Twitter in 2008. They went on to be instrumental in the early days of Twitter, with our CEO serving a Chief Scientist at Twitter.
Our customers rave about the product:
I LOVE YOUR PRODUCT! Best gift ever! Why frame one picture and give it as a give when you can continually give new photos! :) Worth every penny.
We are thoroughly enjoying it. As pictures are added , more smiles are evoked
Love this so much! Helps bridge the distance we live from our children and granddaughter.
Engineering at Aura Home, Inc.
Our engineering team works together to solve the most important problems every week. We plan our work in tandem with Product and Design (and Marketing for the website) on two-week sprint cycles. We use GitHub pull-requests for code reviews, and have daily standup. New features are developed with input from all stakeholders, and undergo an open product and design review before being scheduled for engineering.
Our engineering team is split between SF and NYC, so we also try to travel between offices to share knowledge and projects.
When a new user signs up, we rapidly upload their photo library so we can apply our computer vision and machine learning stack across it, automatically organizing their photos. Due to the seasonality of our product, which is often given as a gift, these signups tend to happen in clusters throughout the year. During peak usage, we are ingesting 50-100 photos per second. To accommodate this, we aggressively scale up our AWS usage during these times, but scale it down quickly afterwards to avoid paying for unused capacity. Building this stack has been an interesting challenge, but the most interesting work remains ahead as we scale to support 500-1000 photos per second.
You would be building integrations with external photo library APIs, including Google Photos, Dropbox, Facebook, or Instagram.
You would be optimizing our current Rails stack, pulling components out into separate services and even databases.
You would be making improvements to how we load and track photos displayed on our device, writing code across the backend stack and within our custom Android operating system which is deployed via the factory and OTA updates.
Working at Aura Home, Inc.
We value smart people who will identify the most important problems facing our business, regardless of their area of expertise, and will work with others to engineer novel solutions.
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Generous Vacation
Unlimited vacation, 2-week minimum.
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Free Food
Lunch catered daily, snacks and coffee always available.
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Travel
Aura has offices in NYC and SF, we encourage everyone to visit the opposite coast to meet co-workers and learn new things about the company.
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Beautiful Office
Our SF office has a panoramic view of San Francisco from the tallest building in the Mission. On clear days you can see both bridges.
Our NY office is in an interesting building in Chinatown.
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Workshops/Conferences
We encourage everyone to attend conferences, workshops, or purchase materials such as books. We cover 90% of the cost, up to $2k annually per employee.
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Health Insurance
Full medical, dental, and vision. Generous coverage for dependents.
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Work from Home
We have a flexible work from home policy to suit yours or your family's schedule.
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Gym/Fitness
$150 monthly stipend for fitness/wellness services like a gym membership.
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Pet Friendly
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Flexible Hours
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Team Activities
External Links
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