Phrasing.app : CTO
Phrasing.app - CTO - EU Remote
I've spent the last 18 months iterating on Phrasing, a language learning app for polyglots. It's finally reached a stable point, and we're starting to get Daily Active Users. I've been using it every day for over a month now to learn over a dozen languages, and have been blown away at my progress.
However, I've really reached the limit of what one engineer can do alone. I'm looking for someone to help me make it go brrr. Someone who would love to iterate on our in-house sync engine, make our monolithic postgres database purr, and wouldn't be scared of a little machine learning.
The product is built in Elixir on the backend, ClojureScript on the front-end. There are no experience requirements so long as you're committed, capable, and hungry.
I'm really trying to do something different with Phrasing. No investors, no hyper-scaling, no enshittification - just a relentless pursuit of mastery and a delightful product.
If any of this is speaking to you, get in touch at hackers [at] phrasing [dot] app.
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