Hello! Coach Viva is a bootstrapped 2-person company looking for a founding engineer to help build and scale our vision to reverse the obesity trend using personalized yet scalable data and AI-driven coaching + tools.
As a founding engineer on the team, you will help architect and build our product, lead our technical strategy, and grow our engineering team.
Being an early-stage and bootstrapped company, this role also requires experimentation, identifying solutions to unknown problems, and out-of-the-box thinking.
We are Richa and Lucy, founders and coaches at Coach Viva. Our vision is to give people the tools to live their best lives, and our first mission toward that vision is to reverse the obesity trend. We believe that just like there no longer exists a polio market, there shouldn't exist an obesity market.
We both started our careers as engineers at Microsoft. Simultaneously we struggled to feel good in our skins and are happy with our health and fitness. After having spent 10 years and $45k combined, we realized that each weight loss solution out there only gives a few pieces to the puzzle that is lifelong health and fitness.
Applying our engineer's lens to answer why this may be and ruling out maliciousness, we discovered it's because of recency bias and personal bias. There aren't people taking the engineering mindset to this problem space, that is, zooming out to build a grounds-up framework; i.e. the completed puzzle to lifelong health and fitness.
We could see why this lens may be hard for others who didn't come from an engineering mindset. We feel we have a unique problem/person fit here, and felt so strongly about this that we switched careers to become weight loss coaches.
After working with over 300 clients and understanding how to best help people lose weight sustainably and healthily via a new personalized yet scalable coaching methodology, we realized there's still a host of tools (online and offline) missing or if they exist, that are overly complicated to use in the long-term for sustainable progress.
With your help, we will deliver this effective combination of coaching + tools to customers at an affordable cost, essentially democratizing sustainable weight loss towards our goal to reverse the obesity trend.
Links: Website | YouTube Channel | Instagram
We recently launched the first version of our app, which is a done-for-you food journaling solution that allows users to log food in plain English or just by taking a photo. Then in the back, a data-entry team takes care of looking up calories, macros, etc. for our customers instead of them having to do it themselves.
Customers are already using our app and actively requesting more features. This is where you come in!
Our current tech stack uses Flutter + Firebase + Node.js. That said, we are not married to our existing tech stack or architecture and in fact, we prefer someone who is eager to both challenge and contribute to ideas on how to refine and improve our engineering systems and product.
We're looking forward to evolving our product with your help!
We have a productized service called Badass Body Boss, which both serves as our customer base who uses our solutions toward reversing the obesity trend and funds our technical research & development.
We are post-revenue and profitable.