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San Francisco, CA or Portland, OR - Engineers and business people
Urban Airship is hiring all kinds of engineers and business people in San Francisco and Portland. We have a travel program between the cities, so you'd get to know 2 badass cities.
Urban Airship helps mobile developers send push notifications at high volumes across iOS, Android, Blackberry, WP7, Kindle, etc.
- 10 billion push notifications sent. We're sending about 2.5 billion per month now.
- Our systems are engineered to send about 50,000 push notifications per second. We want to "light up a stadium in a second".
- We have huge customers like The New York Times, ESPN, USA Today, Groupon, LivingSocial, BET, etc.
- We're about 50 people and just raised $15M from Intel, Verizon, and SalesForce.
- Working on advanced segmentation of users to send smarter push notifications.
- Great, hardworking leadership, one of the most important things in a startup.
- Ping pong showdowns. Lagunitas keg and bourbon in the office. Fun, connected, smart, and badass co-workers that are 100% startup.
The formal job listings are here: http://urbanairship.com/company/jobs/ but we're hiring smart engineers with a broad range of skills.
Hit me up at ben (at) <companyname> (dot) com if you're interested!