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Vurb | San Francisco, CA | http://vurb.com | Full Time

Featured in 2016 NYT, LAT, Forbes as a must-have search and travel app

We're creating a truly mobile-first search and discovery experience - addressing the fragmented nature of today’s app ecosystem and sub-par mobile search - by introducing a cohesive experience that uses search results (i.e., Vurb cards) as the hub into actions, recommendations, and communications. Won TC Disrupt - http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/20/vurbchat/

INVESTORS: Max Levchin, Drew Houston, Naval Ravikant, CrunchFund, Redpoint, Tencent + others.

APPLY IF: You're looking to join a rapidly growing team, 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

- Build backend services (e.g., mini-apps) which integrate with APIs across verticals like places, movies, and shopping

- Work on user-facing web and mobile apps that deliver an amazing experience!

LOOKING FOR:

* Full-stack Engineer - generalist opportunities across the stack: backend, frontend. JavaScript, node.js, Python, React

* Search / Data Scientist / Data Engineer - search, classification, ranking, ML, graphs, data crawling/processing. Advanced CS degree required.

INTERESTED? http://vurb.com/careers | jobs@vurb.com




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