About Trala
Trala is a technology powered music education company. Our mission is to make world-class music education accessible to every single person on Earth. Right now, private music lessons are available only to the rich and urban. Imagine instead a world where all 4 billion people who will pick up an instrument in the next 20 years could get world-class lessons. Imagine how much more music and joy there would be in the world. That is the future we’re obsessed with realizing.
To that end, we’re building the world’s first tech-forward music school. Students take weekly lessons with our teachers and practice daily using our mobile applications. Our first app, Trala: Learn Violin, uses signal processing to listen to students play their real violins and give instant feedback on every mistake. This is crazy-hard and requires us to solve novel problems in signal processing, app design, user psychology, and education theory.
Our students are ages 7 to 70 and live in rural Montana, Syria, tiny Pacific islands, Hong Kong, and our hometown of Chicago. They’re not businesses or governments, they’re people. They’ve dreamt of learning violin for years and we’re fulfilling those dreams. They say things like this to us:
“I had never progressed this far no matter what I did. I just want to say thank you. You made my dream come true”
“I’ve been using Trala for just under three months now and can honestly say it’s changed my life.”
“Wow! Even though I had never touched a violin in my entire life, this app helped me to build a strong foundation for playing the violin in just a day. And right from day 2, I even started composing my own notes and played them.”
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About This Role**
Junior Engineer for iOS & Mac. Our native Apple-platform projects include:
You will work with our product team to create beautiful and intuitive user interfaces. You will take initiative and expand test coverage in critical areas. You will write high-quality, bug-free code. Most importantly, you will create features that make it easier to practice violin and take lessons.
Requirements
In light of COVID-19, we’re currently a fully remote team but we plan on returning to our offices once it is safe to do so. At that point, you may come into the office as often or as rarely as you like. Most of us are in Chicago but we are remote friendly.
Benefits