LavLabs Inc. is offering an exciting iOS Full Stack Software Engineer, Mobile contractor role for the Yuhmmy App. This 60-day roll-over contractor position provides a unique opportunity to transition into a full-time role with significantly enhanced total compensation, including a higher salary, comprehensive benefits, and stock options if you are successfully converted to a permanent employee. As a key member of the Yuhmmy team, you will be instrumental in building not only the app’s technical infrastructure but also Yuhmmy's monetization, cash, and payments products and services for "Taste-Transactions." You will also help establish Yuhmmy’s suite of stores and shops, collectively known as the Yuhmmy Marketplace.
As a key member of the team, you will be responsible for developing both the front-end and back-end of the Yuhmmy App, ensuring seamless user experiences and robust infrastructure. This role involves working across both front-end and back-end technologies, integrating native iOS development, and optimizing the app for performance and scalability within environments like Stream.io, Agora.io, Vonage, Sendgrid, and TensorFlow. We are seeking individuals with strong expertise in iOS development, full-stack engineering, and cloud platforms such as GCP and AWS, as well as knowledge of server environments like Java Kernel, Bluehost, and Dreamhost.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain both the front-end mobile user experience and back-end infrastructure for the Yuhmmy App, including building custom iOS features.
- Lead the integration of audiovisual streaming technologies to enable real-time communication and short-form video functionality. You will implement capabilities similar to live audio chat rooms and interactive short video formats, ensuring seamless user experience and engagement.
- Lead the implementation of Yuhmmy’s monetization systems for in-app purchases, payments, and Taste-Transactions, ensuring smooth integrations with third-party services.
- Build and scale Yuhmmy’s Marketplace, which includes stores and shops for taste-related digital goods and services.
- Utilize cloud platforms like Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and AWS to ensure high-performance, scalable systems.
- Create and maintain APIs that support services such as Bluehost, Dreamhost, and other back-end environments.
- Integrate and optimize real-time communication and streaming services using Stream.io, Agora.io, Vonage, and Sendgrid for the Yuhmmy platform.
- Leverage TensorFlow for advanced data processing and machine learning functionalities to improve user engagement and app performance.
- Analyze and optimize the full-stack architecture for quality, performance, and scalability.
Basic Qualifications:
- At least 2 years of full-stack development experience, including mobile engineering (iOS, front-end) and back-end system architecture.
- Proficiency in iOS development using Swift or Objective-C and experience with Stream.io, Agora.io, Vonage, and Sendgrid.
- Hands-on experience with cloud environments like Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and AWS.
- Familiarity with TensorFlow for building machine learning models.
- Expertise in building and scaling APIs, integrating cloud services, and optimizing full-stack systems for performance.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience. ***THIS IS NOT MANDATORY AS WE PRIORITIZE DETAILS OVER DEGREES***
Preferred Experience:
- Successfully launched large-scale products involving monetization systems and real-time transactions, with cloud and mobile integration.
- Proven track record in performance optimization, debugging, and scaling real-time services across mobile and server environments.
- Expertise with advanced streaming and communication technologies like Agora.io and Vonage.
AI Engineering Skills:
• AI Tools Utilization: Candidates should have experience using AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, MidJourney, ElevenLabs, GitHub Copilot, Stable Diffusion, and Scale AI to enhance productivity and automate tasks in Yuhmmy’s ecosystem.
• Foundational Model Development: Candidates must understand building foundational models, creating algorithms, and AI algorithms. Proficiency in Python, C++, and experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow, Hugging Face Transformers, and distributed frameworks (Horovod, Ray) is essential. Familiarity with NLP tools (NLTK, spaCy), data management (Pandas, Spark), and hardware (GPUs, TPUs) is required, plus cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
At LavLabs, we are advancing AI by developing LaLaMo (Labs Large Models), which contribute to the evolution of CogAI (Cognitive AI) and LCMs (Large Cognitive Models). These represent industry-level advancements in AI evolution, allowing for more intelligent and adaptive systems that leverage sophisticated AI algorithms to push the boundaries of what AI can achieve.
Development Environment:
- Our engineering environment is built on the GAFT principles—Gestures, Animations, Fluidity, and Transitions. Engineers must prioritize these elements in all features to create smooth, intuitive, and dynamic user experiences that set us apart in mobile app development. If you have a track record of building applications with these principles in mind, we'd love to hear from you!
Contract Structure and Compensation:
This 60-day roll-over contract offers an hourly rate of $60 to $120 per hour, translating to:
- Monthly Compensation: $9,600 to $19,200 per month.
- Total for 2 Months (60 Days): $19,200 to $38,400 for the contract period.
Upon successful transition to a full-time role, you will be eligible for a higher total compensation package, which includes:
- Increased Salary: A competitive base salary above the contractor rate.
- Comprehensive Benefits: Including health, dental, and vision insurance, retirement plans, and other benefits.
- Stock Options: Equity in LavLabs, offering long-term growth opportunities as the company and the Yuhmmy App continue to expand.
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This role is set to begin immediately, as we are seeking a fast placement to fill this position. Ideal candidates should be prepared to start as soon as possible and contribute to key projects right away.
For those based in California, LavLabs follows all applicable employment laws, including those pertaining to contract roles. Specifically, this position adheres to the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. These laws require consideration of qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records, and we will ensure full compliance with these regulations in the hiring process.
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ABOUT LAVLABS
LavLabs Inc., also known as Labs, is an American human-enhancement technology company. The company specializes in software and consumer internet-related products, services, platforms and technologies. These include digital streaming music, video on-demand, social-taste technology, social networking, media & entertainment, cloud computing,mobile commerce, search, marketplaces, ad software, artificial intelligence, crypto & blockchain, VR/AR/MR/XR/RR/3D technologies, hardware, startup studios and venture capital.
Our intention on the quest to changing the world is to unify-humanity in every part of what we aspire to accomplish and advocate.
We believe that every human on the planet can reach their full potential to thrive greatly with opportunity and equal access to technology.
At LavLabs, our mission is to inspire creativity with innovative ideas that help build community and advance human capabilities.
Our vision is to harness the power of unity to better the planet and improve human life.
Our Core Values and Virtues: Striving & Thriving (We are strivers and thrivers)
Our values statement: Learn to adventure and voice your ideas so that you can Liberate humanity, adapt brave ways of being and support the world.
Values: We strive for
L - earning
a - dventuring
v - oicing
L - iberating
a - dapting
b - raveness
s - upporting
Our virtues statement: Listening shows great aptitude for achieving victory and is a legitimate way to practice accepting others, while bridging the gap of solidarity.
Virtues: We thrive on
L - istening
a - ptitude
v - ictory
L - egitamacy
a - cceptance
b - ridging
s - olidarity
Our purpose is to empower humanity with better tools to experience, learn and enjoy the world together.
Our philosophy is that every human on the planet can reach their full-potential to thrive greatly.
Our passion is to place people on the pathway to progress.
LavLabs' goal is to actively promote sustainable practices, while encouraging our teams to be creative across all elements of our family of companies, family of brands, family of jobs and family of initiatives.
Since our founding, it has been our intention to develop and manage our activities in a manner that aims to protect the environment, reduce our ecological footprint and support the transition to a sustainable-powered internet, workplace and society.
As such, we have issued our initiatives 1% of non-diluting shares and have committed to building stakeholder impact by being a 1-1-1 pledge company. Participating in Pledge 1%, LavLabs will donate 1% of net-proceeds, 1% of people-resources and 1% of its PSPT-focus to our in-house impact fund LiftHumankind.org and LavLabs.org, our 501(c)(3) charitable non-profit that provides support to sustainable tech initiatives like green tech and S.T.E.A.M. (Science, Tech, Engineering, Arts and Math), also offering student education, scholarship and college readiness programs to communities that are under-served.