Hi Tsinghua alumni,
My startup Polyvore is looking for exceptional engineers. We're a well-funded company backed by Benchmark Capital. In addition to stock options, we provide very competitive salaries, full benefits (health, dental, vision, and flex spending), and free lunch every day. If you are interested, please drop me a line (yuangw@polyvore.com).
Senior Software Engineer - Search
Search is a critical component of Polyvore. It drives our core shopping experience, as well as our ability to suggest related products and sets. As a key member of our search team, you'll be responsible for all aspects of our search infrastructure, from indexing to ranking to recommendation engines.
Resposibilities
Search is a critical component of Polyvore. It drives our core shopping experience, as well as our ability to suggest related products and sets. As a key member of our search team, you'll be responsible for all aspects of our search infrastructure, from indexing to ranking to recommendation engines.
Resposibilities
- Design and implement scalable infrastructure for distributed indexing and searching
- Develop search relevance solutions such as query classification, spelling correction, search result diversity, and evaluation framework
- Work closely with the data mining team to build recommendation engines that utilizes the massive amounts of data generated by our users
- BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent
- Write solid code (Java, Perl/Python)
- In-depth knowledge of Solr, Lucene
- Experience with MySQL a plus
Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure
As the lead for Polyvore's infrastructure and scalability efforts, you'll be responsible for improving our scalability and performance. You will own the architecture, design and implementation of our infrastructure. You'll troubleshoot scalability and performance issues that may involve hardware, software, applications and network. You will take part in a on-call rotation.
About You
As the lead for Polyvore's infrastructure and scalability efforts, you'll be responsible for improving our scalability and performance. You will own the architecture, design and implementation of our infrastructure. You'll troubleshoot scalability and performance issues that may involve hardware, software, applications and network. You will take part in a on-call rotation.
About You
You love building systems that scale. You believe that performance is not only a feature, but one of the most important one for a website. You are metrics-driven and can see the big picture of a system and come up with practical solutions on an end-to-end basis. You work well in a cross-functional environment and are able to engage in discussions with your peers to gather technical, operational, and business requirements. As a well-rounded software engineer, you have the following attributes:
- Strong customer orientation, both internally and externally
- Strategic thinking both technically and business-wise
- Personal drive to achieve world-class software development
- Desire to work in a fast-paced, evolving, growing, dynamic environment
- Love of technical challenges and a sense of pride in solving them
- BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent
- Substantial experience developing large-scale websites
- Expert knowledge of MySQL, Apache, Squid, nginx, memcached
- Deep conceptual understanding of scalability, performance, and availability
About Polyvore
Polyvore is redefining how people around the world experience, create and share fashion on the Internet. We are a next generation social commerce company, community driven platform, we're well-funded and building a company to last. Our site has over 7 million unique visitors per month and over 140 million monthly page views (currently but growing fast). Our approach is to build platforms and tools that harness the creativity of our user community towards discovering, curating and wardrobing the best products on the web.
Polyvore has a small but stellar team that consists of people who led development of Yahoo Pipes and Google Maps. As one of our first 20 hires, you'll play a key role in shaping our strategy and culture. We're looking for people who are excited to tackle big challenges and are passionate about delighting end users. Whether you're interested in mining trends from our massive amounts of user data, scaling up a website to serve tens of millions of users, or building cutting-edge applications that push the boundaries of JavaScript, we've got some great projects for you. We value talented, creative people who love to laugh and dream big. We're well-funded and are building a company to last.
Polyvore was recently featured in articles in The New Yorker and Women's Wear Daily. Polyvore was also chosen by Silicon Alley Insider as one of their 20 Hot Silicon Valley Startups to watch. Here are some links to our coverage:
The New Yorker - Fashion Democracy, A World of Virtual Anna Wintours
Polyvore is redefining how people around the world experience, create and share fashion on the Internet. We are a next generation social commerce company, community driven platform, we're well-funded and building a company to last. Our site has over 7 million unique visitors per month and over 140 million monthly page views (currently but growing fast). Our approach is to build platforms and tools that harness the creativity of our user community towards discovering, curating and wardrobing the best products on the web.
Polyvore has a small but stellar team that consists of people who led development of Yahoo Pipes and Google Maps. As one of our first 20 hires, you'll play a key role in shaping our strategy and culture. We're looking for people who are excited to tackle big challenges and are passionate about delighting end users. Whether you're interested in mining trends from our massive amounts of user data, scaling up a website to serve tens of millions of users, or building cutting-edge applications that push the boundaries of JavaScript, we've got some great projects for you. We value talented, creative people who love to laugh and dream big. We're well-funded and are building a company to last.
Polyvore was recently featured in articles in The New Yorker and Women's Wear Daily. Polyvore was also chosen by Silicon Alley Insider as one of their 20 Hot Silicon Valley Startups to watch. Here are some links to our coverage:
The New Yorker - Fashion Democracy, A World of Virtual Anna Wintours
The New York Times - Site Wins Fans by Letting Them Design
Silicon Alley Insider - 20 Hot Silicon Valley Startups to Watch
The Polyvore office is located in the heart of downtown Mountain View, within walking distance of the Caltrain station and lots of great restaurants & shops.
The Polyvore office is located in the heart of downtown Mountain View, within walking distance of the Caltrain station and lots of great restaurants & shops.
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