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Kifi (http://www.kifi.com/) - Mountain View, CA (H1B okay, prefer already in the area) - Front-end, backend, ML, etc. Full list: https://www.kifi.com/about/join_us

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We use Scala, Lucene, Akka, Play Framework, browser extensions, AngularJS, Gulp, etc.

• Front-end Engineer

Build the desktop product, creating an excellent user experience & easy-to-use product.

You: Highly proficient in JS and HTML/CSS; Well versed in HTTP semantics and web API design principles; Comfortable learning/using new web technologies to build rich applications (think MutationObservers, CSS Transforms, SVG …)

• Mobile engineer

Design and build high quality, modern consumer mobile user experiences. It's our fastest growing market.

You: Prior iOS or Android experience; Passionate about user experience

• Machine Learning / Information Retrieval Engineer

Using a massive amount of user events, analytics data, social graphs and web documents, you will build a new breed of ML and IR systems with tight throughput and latency requirements.

You: Proficient in at least one JVM language and can easily pick up Scala; Passion for elegant and efficient algorithms and data structures; Experience with implementing high quality ML/IR systems

If you're interested, the best contact address is careers@kifi.com, or direct: andrew@kifi.com



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