About OpenDNA

About OpenDNA

OpenDNA is a dynamic technology that creates a 360 degree view of app users’ interests. At its core, OpenDNA is a robust platform technology (leveraging AI and M2M learning) that builds dynamic user profiles. The technology adaptively learns what information is actually relevant to users based on their interactions with their commonly used applications. Using its proprietary technology, OpenDNA is able to provide a more relevant and contextualized first-party app experience as it builds a 360 degree view of a user’s "interest cloud.” At scale, OpenDNA becomes a marketplace of user data for app developers to provide the most unique and personalized first-party experience to their users.

The data within OpenDNA is completely transparent to users and allows them to control, manage, and edit their data in real-time. Not only does this improve the feedback loop of highly relevant information, it helps alleviate the growing concerns about online data privacy. Consumers win because they get hyper-relevant interactions with their community of apps and they gain control of their personal data. App developers and businesses win because they serve up more meaningful content to their users.

To showcase the capabilities of OpenDNA the company has built two apps, Jottr (soft launched in September in the App Store) and Jottr Elect (expected to launch in December). Both are informative aggregators that continually improve content relevance based on the user’s preferences and reading habits. Jottr provides a broad spectrum of content; Jottr Elect will be focused on the 2016 U.S. election cycle. The company is already talking to several campaigns about the rich, real-time analytics Jottr Elect can provide them.

Why work for us

In short: the opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a fast-paced, funded, Silicon Valley start-up. With $110,000 in AWS credits, we've got free access to some cutting-edge technology and the freedom to explore, build and develop unique systems which employ Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and our unique approach to our big vision. We offer the opportunity to make of it what you will.

Our engineering process

We've got a lot to do and not much time to do it in so we move fast. Requirements and deadlines change regularly. We use JIRA/Confluence and HipChat, with day-long or week-long sprints depending on the deadline/feature.

Our hiring process

Come and talk to us. See the office, meet the SA team, tell us about what drives you and what you'd like to do with us. We look for the following things:

• Willingness to take ownership
• Pro-active mindset
• An understanding of what it means to work in a startup (i.e.: things change and there's a constant battle between budget, time and perfection!)
• Clean code (that means PEP8 for Python)!
• Dev environment flexibility
• Willingness to learn, accommodate and contribute in as many areas of the business as you can