Senior Front-End Engineer, Aira ASL App

Mobile-first. Fully remote. Contract to start.

About Aira

Aira's mission is to remove visual barriers and make the world more accessible through on-demand visual interpreting. We believe access is a human right. The Aira ASL App extends that access to Deaf and hard of hearing users. We're a fully remote team, and always will be, united by that mission. We are champions of inclusion, diversity and accessibility in how we build and in who we hire.

About the role

You'll be the first engineer dedicated to the Aira ASL App: a senior front-end engineer who owns the mobile experience end to end. You'll inherit an existing codebase and modernize it, build real-time video that holds up in the real world, and make accessibility the default rather than the retrofit. You'll work independently at first, with the mandate to help shape and grow the team as it finds its footing.

What you'll do

• Own the front end of the Aira ASL App, mobile first

• Modernize and maintain an existing production codebase

• Build and harden real-time video: latency, reconnects, call state

• Make every component accessible by default

• Partner closely with our ASL community and design team

• Help define what the team needs next, and help us hire for it

Required qualifications

• Fluent in ASL, or Deaf or hard of hearing

• Senior front-end engineer who has shipped and maintained production mobile apps

• Hands-on experience with real-time video in production

• Comfortable owning an existing codebase and working independently

• Uses AI coding agents as a normal part of your workflow

• Builds accessibly by default

Preferred qualifications

• Flutter

• Web front-end alongside mobile

• Consent, privacy or PII-handling flows

• Experience building products for Deaf and hard of hearing users

What we offer

• 100% remote. We're fully remote and always will be.

• Mission-driven work with immediate, visible impact

Aira’s Values

• We are powered by people

• We pursue excellence & hold ourselves accountable for results

• We embrace change and agility

• We act with integrity, transparency, dignity and respect

• We are champions of inclusion, diversity and accessibility

Aira’s Operating Principles

• Agility: We reconsider priorities and solutions when presented with new information, scenarios, and opportunities.

• Focus: We operate with a plan, based on our roadmap and aligned to our priorities.                        

• Diversity: We embrace a workplace that celebrates personal differences and the way those differences make us all stronger.

• Scalability: We expect and demand repeatable, documented processes to replace ad-hoc operations, so we can scale growth and support career movement.

• Fiscal Responsibility: We make financial (or investment) decisions using radical optimism coupled with disciplined, fiscal conservatism.

• Transparency: We (Employees and Agent Staff) engage in open, honest, and direct, 2-way communication because we trust one another.

• Corporate Social Responsibility: We support the community in matters related to health, employment and independent living.  This includes making our service available as broadly as possible to support these commitments.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Aira provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.