We built GoGo for our own grandparents and were amazed to see it grow to touch the lives of hundreds of thousands of seniors across the United States and Canada. What shocked us then and it still does now, is that between 30 - 40% of our new signups have smartphones. We didn’t understand why. When we called and asked a few, they told us that Uber and Lyft had 'stopped working' for them.

After puzzling over that for months, we realized what the problem was.

Managing transportation - on Lyft, Uber, cab companies, etc is not easy. It’s a ‘self-serve’ experience. The ride requester has to be aware of things like the driver cancelling, getting lost, the driver arriving, the driver not-quite-being-lost-just-down-the-street-a-couple-houses.

Then add the complexities of smartphones: the user has to be on top of updating their own credit card - making sure the pickup pin is in the correct spot - typing in both where they are and where they’re going. All in all, there are about a dozen online and offline "micro steps" ride requesters have to take to get a ride. And god help anyone who needs to remember their Apple iCloud password to update an app.

We didn't know this when we started, but it turns out that ordering and managing a ride gets more difficult the older you get, almost in the same way that driving a car gets more difficult the older you get.

What gets us excited now (and what we’re hiring for) is that technically this ‘self-management problem’ doesn’t just stop at rides. There are lots of things that get harder to do as you age. People have known this for a long time and that’s inspired a lot of the solutions that older adults currently have.

Based a lot on the experiences we’ve had so far, we believe that by becoming the ‘management layer’ for the things that older adults struggle with as they age we have a better chance to offer older citizens independence without having to ask them to move out of their homes.

Within the next ten years the number of people over the age of 65 will be larger than the number of people under 18 for the first time in history. 11,000,000 people over the age of 75 will stop driving due to age related cognitive or physical decline. When they stop driving, they’ll be forced to rely on friends and family, live in a community, or have caregivers. GoGo is working to make sure that losing your youth doesn’t mean losing your independence.

Joining us at this time is a really exciting opportunity for folks looking to make meaningful impact on people’s lives. We’re a small team that’s built a profitable and fast-growing business over the last three years. Now we’re looking for partners to join us as we make GoGo a household name.

Anyone joining GoGo at this phase of the company will have a huge and life changing level of impact on a size-able and growing user base. We want people to have rich and meaningful lives at any age. We’re bringing people freedom and hope, one life at a time.

About Us

We're a digital caregiving platform dedicated to helping older and disabled adults live independently and thrive in their own homes—avoiding the need for retirement communities. We adapt on-demand APIs from companies like Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, and Instacart to meet the unique needs of individuals with cognitive, visual, mobility, and dexterity challenges. We're a highly profitable and fast-growing startup. Our team is fully remote, with a total engineering headcount of 12 (including this role).

The Position

FULLY REMOTE | EST timezone | $100k to $160k (partially location-dependent)

Serve as a Full-Stack Tech Lead, helping guide engineering efforts across the team. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

- Acting as the primary liaison between engineering and other departments

- Leading sprint planning sessions and daily standups

- Participating in sprint refinement meetings

- Managing and continuously improving the sprint cycle

- Scoping out new features and identifying fixes for bugs

- Overseeing and executing code deployments

- Developing and maintaining deep expertise in the codebase

- Conducting thorough code reviews to ensure quality and consistency

- Holding regular 1-on-1s with developers to support growth and alignment

Tech Stack

Back-end heavy: Node.js, TypeScript, MySQL, REST + GraphQL
Front-end: Vue.js (nice to have)
Deployment: AWS, Docker/Kubernetes (nice to have)

Requirements

6+ years of professional experience (primarily in Node.js and Vue.js)

If you're passionate about improving the lives of older adults and people with disabilities, we would love for you to apply!

Today we're mainly a Javascript shop with Typescript Node.js on the backend and Vue.js on the frontend. We use MySQL as our database and everything is hosted in Docker on Google + AWS. We do a lot of work with various API's and in some cases we have to build our own API for third party services. We're exploring GraphQL, Kubernetes, Jenkins and more. We care very much about building things correctly, because one mishap can really impact a lot of people - so we take our time and do it right.