Junior Software Developer

Elevate Ventures, Inc.; Bloomington (IN); On-site; USD 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Elevate Ventures, Inc. seeks a software developer to build features across Traduality's iPad app, web apps, and backend, guided by the Engineering Lead. You will ship iPad releases, expand language support, and ensure security and privacy.

You will use AI coding agents, follow task specs, test outputs, and collaborate with US Eastern hours. Strong English required; Go/TypeScript and frontend basics are essential.

Qualifications

• 0-2 years of professional software development or a strong shipped projects portfolio.
• Fluent English; Spanish a plus.
• Hands-on use of AI coding agents with discipline to test and review.
• Programming in Go or TypeScript, daily Go preferred.
• Frontend basics: HTML, CSS, TypeScript.
• Git and pull-request workflows.
• Several hours daily overlap with US Eastern business hours.

Responsibilities

• Build features and bug fixes across iPad app, web apps and backend with guidance from the Engineering Lead.
• Help build and ship releases of the iPad app including App Store submission.
• Add and improve the languages we support.
• Use AI coding agents to deliver work: follow plans, test and review outputs.
• Help handle customer-reported issues: reproduce, fix, test and verify.
• Write tests and clear verification notes.
• Build features with security and member-data privacy in mind.

Skills

English fluency

AI coding agents

Frontend basics

Git workflows

HTML/CSS

Go

TypeScript

Education

0-2 years professional software development

Tools

Go

TypeScript

Job description

Mission

Our customers use Traduality to serve their limited-English members in their own language, reliably and securely. You will build features across our multicultural customer experience products that use real-time speech translation: Fire Lingo Face-to-Face and Fire Lingo Contact Center, turning what customers ask for into working product, with guidance and review from our Engineering Lead.

Responsibilities

• Build features and bug fixes across our iPad app, our web applications and our backend, with guidance from the Engineering Lead.
• Help build and ship releases of the iPad app, including App Store submission.
• Add and improve the languages we support.
• Use agentic engineering (e.g. Claude Code) to deliver work: follow development plans and task specs, and test and read everything the agent produces.
• Help handle customer-reported issues: reproduce, fix, test and confirm the fix.
• Write tests for what you build, and clear notes on how you verified it.
• Build every feature with security and member-data privacy in mind.

Requirements

• 0-2 years of professional software development, or a strong portfolio of shipped projects (internships, freelance or personal work count).
• Fluent English. Spanish is a plus.
• Hands-on use of AI coding agents, with the discipline to test and review what they produce.
• Programming experience in Go or TypeScript, and a willingness to work in Go daily.
• Frontend basics: HTML, CSS and TypeScript.
• Git and pull-request workflows.
• Several hours of daily overlap with US Eastern business hours.

Preferred

• Swift/SwiftUI or other native mobile experience
• SQL databases, preferably PostgreSQL
• Experience with AI APIs (speech recognition, translation, text-to-speech, LLMs)