Avoca
AI-powered communications platform for SMBs
Founding Engineer
About the role
We are looking to bring on an exceptional founding engineer to help us in our mission to revolutionize the way small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) operate through AI. Thing are moving fast at Avoca as we're growing revenue by over 35% every month and rapidly expanding our core product and platform every week based on customer feedback.
What we’re looking for:
- Full-stack engineer with a background in AI, ideally w/ 2-4 years experience building complex systems quickly 0-1
- Note: we're open to exceptional college grads with industry experience (e.g. internship).
- Self-directed, high ownership, passionate, low ego; desire to work on a fast-paced, intense, fun team.
- Excited to be our first hire; ambition to build a world-class engineering team
- Ability to navigate ambiguity, ruthlessly prioritize, have high-degree of customer empathy, and have the mental fortitude of being able to overcome any obstacle.
About Avoca
Avoca (YC W23) is building AI virtual receptionists for SMBs. Their initial product uses text and voice AI to enable SMBs to automatically answer customer phone calls, schedule bookings, and request reviews 24x7. Their vision is to build the entire pipeline for communication across a customer's lifecycle for SMBs so that owners can focus on their core business.
The founders are two MIT engineers with a background in building AI first products: Apurva Shrivastava, a 2nd time AI founder who was an engineer at Retool, and Tyson Chen, who was an early PM at Nuro and previously built chatbots for F500 companies at BCG.
Since officially launching just 2 months ago, the company has found tremendous traction with 3 customer verticals, just closed a seed round with some of the top seed investors in the valley, and are growing revenue 35% every month.
