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Mobile Engineer - iOS / Android engineers

CompanyINTERESTED?
Websitevurb.com
Roles
  • Mobile Engineer - iOS / Android engineers
  • Product Designer - strong mobile UI/UX skills
Role taxonomyMobileDesign
SpecialtiesiOS, Android, Mobile, Design
Locationonly, transfers OK
Salary
Apply viaApplication linkhttp://vurb.com/careers · jobs@vurb.com
Hiring notesSponsors visas.
TechJavaScriptNode.jsAWSML/AIiOSAndroid
Parsed locationsonly, transfers OK
Posted byblo
PostedAug 3, 2015
SourceView on Hacker News ↗

Original posting

Vurb - San Francisco, CA - http://vurb.com We launched in February on iOS ("Best New Apps") - http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/26/mobile-search-david-vs-goog.... We also won TC Disrupt and raised over $10M with a small team WHAT WE DO: Vurb is a consumer app that directly addresses the pains of discovering apps and jumping between different apps to get things done (e.g., planning a night out). We partner with leading services like Yelp, Foursquare, Rotten Tomatoes, etc to deliver a cohesive and powerful experience that makes Vurb a home screen app. INVESTORS: Max Levchin, Drew Houston, Naval Ravikant, CrunchFund, Redpoint + others. APPLY IF: You are looking for a rapidly growing small team and the opportunity to take on significant responsibility and ship quickly. Examples of challenging problems that you could help us solve include: - Manage and index millions of objects around places, events, movies, etc with blazing fast read-write access - Develop search relevance and content discovery infrastructure on millions of objects and TB’s of data - Develop mobile apps for not only scaling app performance but architecting the app to support a growing number of services and verticals LOOKING FOR: * Full-stack / Backend Engineer - generalist opportunities across the stack: backend, frontend, JavaScript, node.js, backbone.js, AWS * Mobile Engineer - iOS / Android engineers (2+ years experience) * Search / Data Scientist / Data Engineer - search, classification, ranking, ML, graphs, data crawling/processing. Advanced CS degree required. * Product Designer - strong mobile UI/UX skills * Growth Lead - drive growth initiatives across product and marketing INTERESTED? http://vurb.com/careers | jobs@vurb.com | On-site only, H1B transfers OK