Mountain View, CA - full time - hiring several positions. We're willing to sponsor an H1B, but are looking for US (preferably Bay Area already) based candidates.
We're FortyTwo, a stealth-mode well-funded startup in Mountain View, CA. We're working on a consumer web product that will be released in the next 3-4 months. We started about 6 months ago, and are looking for engineers who can hit the ground running and work with our existing team. We use Scala, Play!, Akka and JavaScript. Check out our site for complete job descriptions, and to learn a little about us: <a href="http://www.42go.com/join_us.html" >http://www.42go.com/join_us.html</a>. Also, check out our engineering blog to see about some of the problems we're working on: <a href="http://eng.42go.com/" >http://eng.42go.com/</a>
• Frontend Engineer: Build the product, bridging our backend to an excellent user experience. Day to day, you will work with product managers, designers, and other engineers to create a modern and easy to use product. You'll be very influencial on what technologies we use across our whole stack, and how they're implemented.
• Web/UI Engineer: Building a complex modern consumer web application, while maintaining a simple and elegant interface. You will engage with our product team, designers, and other engineers daily to form a wonderful experience for our users. You'll have many opportunities to contribute to our backend.
• Software Engineer, Mobile: Design and build high quality, modern consumer mobile user experiences. Define and implement APIs (library and network) for mobile apps. Our mobile engineers should be comfortable working at all levels of the development stack (storage, server, multiple mobile platforms).
• Backend Engineer: Growing and scaling up FortyTwo’s backend. At this stage of the company it means going all the way from building clusters of services, optimizing concurrent processing, building data pipelines, working with various types of databases and implementing devops automations. We are building our systems on using technologies like Scala, Play, Akka, ZooKeeper and Guice.
• Machine Learning / Information Retrieval Engineer: FortyTwo is dealing with massive amounts of user events, analytics data, social graphs and web documents. You will be asked to design and build a new breed of Machine Learning and Information Retrieval systems that will be of large scale with tight throughput and latency requirements.
<a href="http://www.42go.com/join_us.html" >http://www.42go.com/join_us.html</a> or email us at REDACTED_EMAIL. If you don't fit squarely into any of these positions but think you'd be a good fit, drop us a line.
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