Whitepages, a leading contact information resource for North America, is adding several members to its Seattle team.
One of the open positions is for a Senior Backend Software Engineer, who will help with developing and updating the back end of Whitepages’ heavily used mobile app.
The Senior Backend Software Engineer will work on a small team to build and enhance large-scale distributed systems that support the Whitepages’ app. The position involves architecting company-wide infrastructure systems and working with data analysis and machine learning to solve problems
The position requires five plus years of coding experience, and fluency in Python, Ruby, or similar languages. Learn more about the position and apply on GeekWork, and check out more open positions at Whitepages.
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M87
Position: Senior Software Engineer, Server/Backend
Summary: “We are a well funded, Madrona and Qualcomm backed startup in the greater Seattle area. … This position will drive our server and backend systems from an architecture and software development perspective.”
Learn more and apply on GeekWork.
AI2
Position: Software Engineer – Semantic Scholar
Summary: “In addition to AI2’s core mission of being a leader in the field of AI research, we also aim to create a superb team environment and to invest in each team member’s personal development. … AI2 is looking for talented engineers to scale up the infrastructure behind Semantic Scholar, our artificially-intelligent academic search engine.”
Learn more and apply on GeekWork.
Enigma
Position: Data Engineer
Summary: “Founded in 2011, Enigma grew out of an effort to retrieve, normalize, and host public data. … In the capacity of a Data Engineer, you will be responsible for writing ingestion code for a wide variety of formats. These span web-based government portals to propriety database systems and everything in between.”
Learn more and apply on GeekWork.
Note: this position is based in New York City.
Rover
Position: Senior Django Software Engineer – Search Algorithm
Summary: “We’re looking for a Senior Django Software Engineer who will be responsible for working with our Technology and Product Management teams to improve and enhance our Django-based web application. Specifically, we are seeking an engineer to work on the search algorithm and related code in our app.”
Learn more and apply on GeekWork.
OfferUp
Position: Build Engineer
Summary: “OfferUp is on a mission to create the simplest, most trustworthy way to buy and sell locally. … OfferUp is looking for a Build Engineer to join our Operations Team. We provide tools and services to all teams in OfferUp for managing an increasingly complex production infrastructure in AWS.”
