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Kensho, Boston, MA (Cambridge, Harvard Sq): FULL TIME Software Engineers (Python, JavaScript, UI/UX).

TL;DR: Kensho’s team of 16 people just launched our first product and is actively hiring engineers with a passion for intuitive usability and data at scale. Our current openings: http://bit.ly/Hj4hJz. Our team: http://www.kensho.com/home/#company

We have major projects for people with a knack for web application design, a nose for efficiency, and a passion for scale and visibility. We’re especially excited about the opportunities to shape, grow and expand our front end experience.

Happy 50th Birthday to the Arecibo Observatory,

Matt

To apply click the blue button at the bottom of the job link.

Front End Software Engineer/Lead | Apply: http://bit.ly/1astuOm

    You will wield JavaScript, Python, CSS and HTML5 with an eye for beauty, 
    elegance and compatibility despite the quirks of browser technology. 
    Your passion for intuitive, simple interfaces that bring life to complex
    data is self evident--you might say it’s Twue Wuv.  

Software Engineer | Apply: http://bit.ly/180Vdjb

    You will code in python with a passionate yet steady hand. On our mission
    to unify complex data with an elegant interface, your designs and 
    code shows the natural, intuitive touch of an inspired artist--one
    who appreciates the uncarved block.  

UI/UX Lead Designer | Apply: http://bit.ly/1astIFj

    You live for design--building intuitive experiences with an appreciation
    of the technical implications on releasing your creation to the world.
    Your passion for elegant simplicity is the peanut butter to our complex
    data jelly.  

About Kensho (http://www.kensho.com/about)

Kensho combines high-speed parallelized algorithms and machine learning to create a new class of analytics tools for capital markets. Addressing the three biggest challenges surrounding financial analysis on Wall Street today—speed, scale, and automation—Kensho's statistical computing and financial risk analysis applications are providing the next generation Bloomberg terminal in the cloud.

Tumblr, New York, NY (NYC, Manhattan): FULL TIME Software Engineers (Scala, Java, Nginx, HBase).

TL;DR: Tumblr is actively hiring engineers with a passion for open source and the ability to develop high-performance distributed applicatons that empowers Tumblr to scale http://tumblr.com/jobs

We have interesting projects for people with a knack for software design, a nose for efficiency, and a passion for massive scale and visibility. This month I’ll specifically talk about our Software Engineer--Distributed Services position, but you can see an awesome photo of Tommy the Pomeranian with Mayor Bloomberg, our great benefits, and the complete listing of open positions at http://tumblr.com/jobs.

Happy Dr. Seuss’s Birthday,

Matt, Director of Engineering

* Software Engineer--Distributed Services (http://bit.ly/QWZC0p): We typically hire experienced software engineers for this position, since we screen for productive coding ability, a well tuned design instict and a practical balance between solving problems in a generalized way with an iterative development process. Expertise in Java or JVM tuning is a plus, but not required.

How to Get Your Resume Noticed * Provide github, side projects, hackathon experience or other manners of code samples. We love open source and we want productive, passionate coders who love it too. * Include a cover letter that talks about your experience scaling, performance tuning and distributing computational workload. Highlight times you have pushed a technology to its limit, and what you learned along the way.

How to Ace to Interview * Write clean, practical, idiomatic code in a statically typed language to answer coding questions. We’re not looking for a trick ah-ah answers. Focus first on a reasonable, functionally correct implementation and then iteratively improve on it if necessary. * Show off your technical knowledge, experience and instincts discussing your implementation’s run-time, scalability pain-points and how you would horizontally scale. * Excitedly talk about how you’ve worked at scale or high throughput, and what technical challenges you overcame as it ramped up. * Be a genuinely nice, collaborative and ambitious person.

About Tumblr (http://www.tumblr.com/about)

Founded by David Karp in New York City in 2007, Tumblr empowers millions of users to create and explore content. Tumblr now hosts more than 96 million blogs and 44 billion posts. We work in an open, friendly and positive environment that encourages intellectual curiosity and a love for open source. As engineers, we are focused on building technologies that advance massively scaled websites. We are also excited to deliver a range of new products that will enable users to share their own creative content, discover content, and connect to one another in new ways.

Tumblr, New York, NY (NYC, Manhattan): FULL TIME and INTERN Software Engineers (Scala, Java), PHP Developers, and Site Reliability Engineers (Linux, Nginx, HBase, HAProxy, Memcached, and OpenTSDB).

TL;DR: Tumblr is actively hiring engineers at every layer of our technology stack. http://tumblr.com/jobs

We have interesting projects for people with a knack for software design, a nose for efficiency, and a passion for massive scale and visibility. I'll highlight a few positions here, but you can see an awesome photo of Tommy the Pomeranian with Mayor Bloomberg, our great benefits, and the complete listing of open positions at http://tumblr.com/jobs.

Happy ground hog day,

Matt, Director of Engineering

* Software Engineer--Distributed Services (http://bit.ly/QWZC0p): Writing generic, reusable services in Scala, you will design, create and grow a blazingly fast platform for our PHP application. Being a productive coder with architecture common sense is a must, but expertise in Java or JVM tuning is a plus.

* Front End/PHP Engineer (http://bit.ly/ToF7Ya): You are a versed engineer and perfectionist with good taste, ready to take ownership of entire features of our PHP application.

* Site Reliability Engineer (http://bit.ly/12fx0XP): As a software developer with a love of highly performant, fault-tolerant, massively distributed systems, you will make Tumblr faster, more reliable and highly available for hundreds of millions of visitors.

* Engineering Summer Intern (http://bit.ly/XcFl71): You will be putting code into production. You will be integrated into a small engineering team working on a real-world project. We have a total of 10 openings across all our engineering teams.

About Tumblr (http://www.tumblr.com/about)

Founded by David Karp in New York City in 2007, Tumblr empowers millions of users to create and explore content. Tumblr now hosts more than 92 million blogs and 42 billion posts. We work in an open, friendly and positive environment that encourages intellectual curiosity and a love for open source. As engineers, we are focused on building technologies that advance massively scaled websites. We are also excited to deliver a range of new products that will enable users to share their own creative content, discover content, and connect to one another in new ways.

Tumblr, New York, NY (NYC, Manhattan): FULL TIME Software Engineers (Scala, Java), PHP Developers and a Site Reliability Engineering Lead (Linux, Nginx, HBase, HAProxy, Memcached, and OpenTSDB)

TL;DR: Tumblr is actively hiring engineers at every layer of our technology stack. http://tumblr.com/jobs

We have interesting projects for people with a knack for software design, a nose for efficiency, and a passion for massive scale and visibility. I'll highlight a few positions here, but you can see an awesome photo of Tommy the Pomeranian with Mayor Bloomberg, our great benefits, and the complete listing of open positions at http://tumblr.com/jobs.

Happy New Year,

Matt, Director of Engineering

* Software Engineer--Distributed Services (http://bit.ly/QWZC0p): Writing generic, reusable services in Scala, you will design, create and grow a blazingly fast platform for our PHP application. Being a productive coder with architecture common sense is a must, but expertise in Java or JVM tuning is a plus.

* Search Engineer (http://bit.ly/TcOdt8): Real-time search and architecture are your forte. Using your large-scale experience with building and innovating search backends, you will help take our search infrastructure to the next level.

* Front End/PHP Engineer (http://bit.ly/ToF7Ya): You are a versed engineer and perfectionist with good taste, ready to take ownership of entire features of our PHP application.

* Site Reliability Engineering Lead (http://bit.ly/Uyy04u): As the team lead, you are an inspiring software developer with a passion for the highly performant, fault-tolerant, massively distributed systems that make Tumblr fast, reliable and available for hundreds of millions of visitors and tens of millions of users.

About Tumblr (http://www.tumblr.com/about)

Founded by David Karp in New York City in 2007, Tumblr empowers millions of users to create and explore content. Tumblr now hosts more than 87 million blogs and 39 billion posts. We work in an open, friendly and positive environment that encourages intellectual curiosity and a love for open source. As engineers, we are focused on building technologies that advance massively scaled websites. We are also excited to deliver a range of new products that will enable users to share their own creative content, discover content, and connect to one another in new ways.

Tumblr, New York, NY (NYC, Manhattan): FULL TIME Software Engineers (Scala, Java, Go), PHP Developers, Database Engineers (MySQL), and a Site Reliability Engineering Lead (Linux, Nginx, HBase, HAProxy, Memcached, and OpenTSDB)

Tumblr is actively hiring experienced engineers at every layer of our technology stack. We have interesting projects for people with a knack for software design, a nose for efficiency, and a passion for massive scale and visibility. We work in an open, friendly and positive environment that encourages intellectual curiosity, a love for open source, and empowering millions of users to create and explore content. I'll highlight a few positions here, but you can see an awesome photo of Tommy the Pomeranian with Mayor Bloomberg, our great benefits, and the complete listing of open positions at http://tumblr.com/jobs

* Software Engineer--Distributed Services (http://bit.ly/QWZC0p): Writing generic, reusable services in Scala or Go, you'll design, code and grow a blazingly fast platform for our PHP application. Being a productive coder with architecture common sense is a must, but expertise in Java or JVM tuning is a plus.

* Database Engineer (http://bitly.com/U0VK2P): You'll scale and organize our data persistence layer to a level few sites can match. We'll love your MySQL expertise and eye for efficiency.

* Search Engineer (http://bitly.com/TcOdt8): Real-time search and analysis is your forte. Using your large-scale experience with building and innovating search backends, you'll tune our evaluation algorithms and expand the software infrastructure.

* Site Reliability Engineering Lead (http://bit.ly/Uyy04u): As the team lead, you are an inspiring software developer with a passion for the highly performant, fault-tolerant, massively distributed systems that make Tumblr fast, reliable and available for hundreds of millions of visitors and tens of millions of users.

* Product Engineer (http://bit.ly/ToF7Ya): You're a versed engineer and perfectionist with good taste, ready to take ownership of entire features of our PHP application.

About Tumblr:

Founded by David Karp in New York City in 2007, Tumblr is a microblogging platform that allows users to effortlessly share anything. Tumblr now hosts over 70 million blogs with over 30 billion posts to date. Our pageview to engineer ratio is 0.5 billion PV per month to 1 engineer. This means every line of code every developer writes has a huge impact. We are focused on building tools and technologies that will advance the state of the art in dealing with massively scaled websites as we quickly grow past 50,000 requests and 1,400 posts per second. We are also excited to deliver a range of new products that will enable users to share their own creative content, discover content, and connect to one another in new ways.

Tumblr, New York, NY (NYC, Manhattan): Software and Database Engineers

Tumblr is actively hiring experienced engineers at every layer of our technology stack. We have interesting projects for people with a knack for software design, a nose for efficiency, and a passion for massive scale and visibility. We work in an open, friendly and positive environment that encourages intellectual curiosity, a love for open source, and empowering millions of users to create and explore content. I'll highlight a few positions here, but you can see the full listings and our benefits at http://tumblr.com/jobs

* Database Engineer (http://bitly.com/U0VK2P): You'll scale and organize our data persistence layer to a level few sites can match. We'll love your MySQL expertise and eye for efficiency.

* Software Engineer--Distributed Services (http://bit.ly/QWZC0p): Writing generic, reusable services in Scala or Go, you'll design, code and grow a blazingly fast platform for our PHP application.

* Search Engineer (http://bitly.com/TcOdt8): Real-time search and analysis is your forte. Using your large-scale experience with Elastic Search, you'll tune our search algorithms and expand the software infrastructure.

* Product Engineer (http://bit.ly/ToF7Ya): You're a versed engineer and perfectionist with good taste, ready to take ownership of entire features of our PHP application.

About Tumblr:

Founded by David Karp in New York City in 2007, Tumblr is a microblogging platform that allows users to effortlessly share anything. Tumblr now hosts over 70 million blogs with over 30 billion posts to date. Our pageview to engineer ratio is 0.5 billion PV per month to 1 engineer. This means every line of code every developer writes has a huge impact. We are focused on building tools and technologies that will advance the state of the art in dealing with massively scaled websites as we quickly grow past 50,000 requests and 1,400 posts per second. We are also excited to deliver a range of new products that will enable users to share their own creative content, discover content, and connect to one another in new ways.