blo

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Chief hacker at Vurb. MIT grad, Microsoft, BCG, and several startups. Yes, we are hiring!

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Comment · 10 years ago
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 | [email protected]

Comment · 10 years ago
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 | [email protected]

Comment · 10 years ago
Vurb | San Francisco, CA | http://vurb.com | Full Time (H1B OK)

Featured on NYT as one of 12 "must-have" travel apps

Vurb combines mobile search, apps, and messaging - partnering with services like Yelp, Foursquare, Rotten Tomatoes, etc. Rather than jumping between different apps to find something, we're bringing your apps and your friends together in one place - an app you'll use every day. 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 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

- 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. Go, JavaScript, node.js, react.js, AWS

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

INTERESTED? http://vurb.com/careers | [email protected]

Comment · 10 years ago
Vurb | San Francisco, CA | http://vurb.com | Full Time (H1B OK)

Featured on NYT as one of 12 "must-have" travel apps

Vurb combines mobile search, apps, and messaging - partnering with services like Yelp, Foursquare, Rotten Tomatoes, etc. Rather than jumping between different apps to find something, we're bringing your apps and your friends together in one place - an app you'll use every day. Won TC Disrupt - http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/20/vurbchat/

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

- Build backend services (e.g., "mini-apps) which integrate with APIs across interesting 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. Go, JavaScript, node.js, react.js, AWS

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

INTERESTED? http://vurb.com/careers | [email protected]

Comment · 10 years ago
Vurb | San Francisco, CA | http://vurb.com | Full Time (H1B OK)

Featured 12/27 on NYT as one of 12 "must-have" travel apps

Vurb combines mobile search, apps, and messaging - partnering with services like Yelp, Foursquare, Rotten Tomatoes, etc. Rather than jumping between different apps to find something, we're bringing your apps and your friends together in one place - an app you'll use every day. Won TC Disrupt - http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/20/vurbchat/

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

- Build backend services (e.g., "mini-apps) which integrate with APIs across interesting 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. Go, JavaScript, node.js, react.js, AWS

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

INTERESTED? http://vurb.com/careers | [email protected]

Comment · 10 years ago
Vurb - San Francisco, CA (H1B OK) - http://vurb.com - Full Time only

Featured 12/27 on NYT as one of 12 "must-have" travel apps

Vurb combines mobile search, apps, and messaging - partnering with services like Yelp, Foursquare, Rotten Tomatoes, etc. Rather than jumping between different apps to find something, we're bringing your apps and your friends together in one place - an app you'll use every day. Won TC Disrupt - http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/20/vurbchat/

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

- Build backend services (e.g., "mini-apps) which integrate with APIs across interesting 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. Go, JavaScript, node.js, react.js, backbone.js, AWS

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

* Mobile Engineer - iOS / Android engineers (2+ years experience)

INTERESTED? http://vurb.com/careers | [email protected]

Comment · 11 years ago
Vurb - San Francisco, CA (H1B OK) - http://vurb.com - Full Time only

Featured 12/27 on NYT as one of 12 "must-have" travel apps

Vurb combines mobile search, apps, and messaging - partnering with services like Yelp, Foursquare, Rotten Tomatoes, etc. Rather than jumping between different apps to find something, we're bringing your apps and your friends together in one place - an app you'll use every day. Won TC Disrupt - http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/20/vurbchat/

INVESTORS: Max Levchin, Drew Houston, Naval Ravikant, CrunchFund, Redpoint, Tencent + 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 Engineer - generalist opportunities across the stack: backend, frontend. Go, JavaScript, node.js, react.js, backbone.js, AWS

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

* Mobile Engineer - iOS / Android engineers (2+ years experience)

* Product Designer - UI/UX

INTERESTED? http://vurb.com/careers | [email protected]

Comment · 11 years ago
Vurb - San Francisco, CA (H1B OK) - http://vurb.com - Full Time only

Just launched Android and messaging across iOS & Android ("Best New Apps") - http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/20/vurbchat/ Won TC Disrupt and raised over $10M with a small team

WHAT WE DO: Vurb combines mobile search, apps, and messaging - partnering with services like Yelp, Foursquare, Rotten Tomatoes, etc. Rather than jumping between different apps to find something, we're bringing your apps and your friends together in one place - an app you'll use every day.

INVESTORS: Max Levchin, Drew Houston, Naval Ravikant, CrunchFund, Redpoint, Tencent + 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 Engineer - generalist opportunities across the stack: backend, frontend. Go, JavaScript, node.js, react.js, backbone.js, AWS

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

* Mobile Engineer - iOS / Android engineers (2+ years experience)

* Product Designer - UI/UX

INTERESTED? http://vurb.com/careers | [email protected]

Comment · 11 years ago
Vurb - San Francisco, CA (H1B OK) - http://vurb.com - Full Time only

Just launched Android and messaging across iOS & Android ("Best New Apps") - http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/20/vurbchat/ Won TC Disrupt and raised over $10M with a small team

WHAT WE DO: Vurb combines mobile search, apps, and messaging - partnering with services like Yelp, Foursquare, Rotten Tomatoes, etc. Rather than jumping between different apps to find something, we're bringing your apps and your friends together in one place - an app you'll use every day.

INVESTORS: Max Levchin, Drew Houston, Naval Ravikant, CrunchFund, Redpoint, Tencent + 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 Engineer - generalist opportunities across the stack: backend, frontend. Go, JavaScript, node.js, react.js, backbone.js, AWS

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

* Mobile Engineer - iOS / Android engineers (2+ years experience)

* Product Designer - UI/UX

INTERESTED? http://vurb.com/careers | [email protected]

Comment · 11 years ago
Vurb - San Francisco, CA (H1B OK) - http://vurb.com - Full Time only

Just launched Android and messaging across iOS & Android ("Best New Apps") - http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/20/vurbchat/ Won TC Disrupt and raised over $10M with a small team

WHAT WE DO: Vurb combines mobile search, apps, and messaging - partnering with services like Yelp, Foursquare, Rotten Tomatoes, etc. Rather than jumping between different apps to find something, we're bringing your apps and your friends together in one place - an app you'll use every day.

INVESTORS: Max Levchin, Drew Houston, Naval Ravikant, CrunchFund, Redpoint, Tencent + 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 Engineer - generalist opportunities across the stack: backend, frontend. Go, JavaScript, node.js, react.js, backbone.js, AWS

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

* Mobile Engineer - iOS / Android engineers (2+ years experience)

* Product Designer - UI/UX

INTERESTED? http://vurb.com/careers | [email protected]

Comment · 11 years ago
Vurb - San Francisco, CA (H1B OK) - http://vurb.com

Just launched Android last month and messaging across iOS & Android ("Best New Apps") - http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/20/vurbchat/ We also won TC Disrupt and raised over $10M with a small team

WHAT WE DO: Vurb is creating a single app mobile search and sharing experience - partnering with services like Yelp, Foursquare, Rotten Tomatoes, etc. Rather than jumping between different apps to find something, we're putting your apps and your friends together in one place - an app you'll use every day.

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 Engineer - generalist opportunities across the stack: backend, frontend. Go, JavaScript, node.js, react.js, backbone.js, AWS

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

* Mobile Engineer - iOS / Android engineers (2+ years experience)

* Product Designer - UI/UX

INTERESTED? http://vurb.com/careers | [email protected]

Comment · 11 years ago
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 | [email protected] | On-site only, H1B transfers OK

Comment · 11 years ago
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 creating a single app mobile search and sharing experience - partnering with services like Yelp, Foursquare, Rotten Tomatoes, etc. Rather than jumping between different apps to find something, we're delivering a cohesive experience in one place - an app you'll use every day.

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 Engineer / DevOps - generalist opportunities across the stack: backend, frontend, devops. 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 | [email protected] | On-site only, H1B transfers OK

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