Vurb - San Francisco, CA - <a href="
We launched in February on iOS ("Best New Apps") - <a href=". 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? <a href=" | REDACTED_EMAIL | On-site only, H1B transfers OK
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