We are a creator of Aselo, an early-stage and rapidly growing social-built in partnership with Child Helpline International and its over 160 helpline members in nearly 140 countries. We operate an open source, cloud-based contact center platform built to give to crisis helplines the same technology power enjoyed by big corporate call centers.

Aselo is our first new social enterprise to launch. We are fiscally sponsored by Benetech, Silicon Valley’s leading tech-for-good nonprofit. Aselo is now the production system for two national helplines in Africa with many more around the world signing up.  

We are now looking for a Full Stack engineer for the Aselo platform for child helplines. As an engineer on this small and agile team, you will have an essential role in scaling Aselo to meet the needs of child helplines securely and reliably and achieving their goal of helping 100 million kids by 2025. 

Our users come from all kinds of communities, and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our organization stronger in delivering social impact. We encourage members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including people of color, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities. 

We know there are great candidates who might not check all of these boxes or who possess important skills we haven’t thought of. If that’s you, don’t hesitate to apply and tell us about yourself.  

Please note:

This is a full-time, remote position.

The job will require overlap on the 8-11am range Pacific Time, in order to attend meetings with the Team based in San Francisco.

What you will do:

• Write open source code powering software used by helpline counselors every day

• Work in collaboration with engineers, product managers and UX designers to build features that make helplines more effective (such as case management, referral tracking, and configuration tools)

• Design for users from many nations and cultures

• Build a scalable worldwide architecture that can adapt to local needs

• Grow and broaden your skills working with a small team that handles the full end-to-end product 

  
  

What makes you a good fit:

• 2+ years of experience in Software Development

• Proficiency in JavaScript and/or TypeScript code

• Proficiency in using Git

• You have worked with frontend web applications, HTTP services, and relational databases

• Being happy to work remotely

• Thriving in an early-stage team with light processes

• Enjoying learning and figuring it out as you go

• Being excited to work in social impact 

  
  

Nice to have, but not necessary:

• Experience building with React, Node, PostgreSQL and CSS

• Experience building for accessibility

• Experience building with Twilio

• Experience working with call centers or helplines

• Fluency in any language, in addition to English 

  
  

Our stack:

• We use ReactJS for our frontend and Node/Express as a REST API

• Our code is in JavaScript and TypeScript, moving more toward TypeScript

• Much of our system is built on top of Twilio’s products, especially Twilio Flex

• Our backend is hosted in Amazon Web Services, where we use Lambda, ECS, Fargate, S3, RDS (PostgreSQL) and more 

Mandatory:

To be eligible to apply for this position through Startuplifers you must be currently studying towards a degree or have graduated from a Finnish or a Swedish university or university of applied sciences. 

Send your application by December 23rd, 2021.

Startuplifers is a non-profit organization connecting the top Nordic talent with some of the best startups on the globe. We provide you a supportive community, making your transition to remote work seamless and fun. Together, we will secure the job of your dreams.