Engineer? Swiftype is hiring in SF

Software Engineer

Full-time•San Francisco, CA

We are hiring software engineers to join our core engineering team and work on our search platform and products that power hundreds of millions of queries a month.

What You Will Do

• Build next-generation search products to help our customers effortlessly find the information they need
• Write flexible systems to efficiently and quickly consume a multitude of datasets
• Improve, maintain, and scale the Swiftype search platform
• Create internal tools to help our sales and support teams guide our customers to success

Our Team Style

• We are a small team of generalist engineers who work across the entire software stack
• We work collaboratively to grow and learn together
• We are not afraid of hard problems, but are pragmatic about what we spend time on
• We deliver new functionality frequently and safely

Technologies We Use

• Ruby, JRuby, and JavaScript
• Rails, Resque, jQuery, React, and Redux
• Lucene, MySQL, MongoDB, Kestrel, Hadoop+Hive, and Redis
• Grafana+Graphite+StatsD, Nagios, Sentry, and New Relic
• Nginx, Unicorn, Puma, and HAProxy
• Chef, Jenkins, Slack, and Git

Required Skills

• Excellent practical judgement. You should know how to effectively allocate your time when solving hard problems
• Experience with or ability to learn the technologies we use
• Ability to take complex product goals and efficiently deliver working software in logically consumable pieces

If this sounds interesting, we would love to hear from you! Please include whatever info you believe is relevant: resume, GitHub profile, code samples, links to personal projects, etc.