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Co-founder & CTO at https://blueshift.com. Previously: Co-founder Mertado (YC W2010), acquired by Groupon.
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kola··on Show HN: Blueshift – Customer Data Platform (CDP) for Marketing Applications
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kola··on Show HN: Blueshift – Customer Data Platform (CDP) for Marketing Applications
Free tier (no credit card required) includes:

- storing 10,000 user profiles

- 100,000 events each month

- 10,000 personalization calls

- 5 audience to paid media destinations

More details on what is included in Free tier here: https://blueshift.com/plans-and-pricing/#customer-data-platf...

kola··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)
Blueshift | Senior / Principal Full Stack Software Engineer(s) | Full time | Remote / San Francisco / Charlotte | https://blueshift.com/jobs/ Blueshift is a fast growing enterprise SaaS company in the Marketing Technology and Customer Experience space. We were ranked #23 in the Bay Area in terms of revenue growth by Deloitte. We help brands like Udacity, BBC, LendingTree, Paypal, Houzz, Stitch Fix, Discovery media automate and personalize their marketing customer engagement at scale. We are 100 people currently, and plan to grow to 170 in 2021 across multiple locations (San Francisco, Charlotte, Pune India, remote ok). You get the true startup experience of working in a small team, and yet experiencing high growth.

We have a modern tech stack built with microservices architecture on AWS. In terms of programming languages, we use Golang where we need high concurrency, Erlang when we need distributed computing, Ruby on Rails for APIs/dashboard and business logic, Python for our machine learning pipelines. We use multiple databases including Cassandra/ScyllaDB, REDIS, ElasticSearch, Hbase, Druid, S3, Postgres and more, we optimize for “data usage” versus “data storage”. Massive data scale (nearly a petabyte of data).

Senior / Principal Full stack engineers (vuejs / angularjs/ Ruby on Rails) Senior application operations engineer Senior backend engineer (elixir / ruby / rust)

kola··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)
Blueshift | Senior / Principal Full Stack Software Engineer(s) | Full time | Remote / San Francisco / Charlotte | https://blueshift.com/jobs/

Blueshift is a fast growing enterprise SaaS company in the Marketing Technology and Customer Experience space. We were ranked #23 in the Bay Area in terms of revenue growth by Deloitte. We help brands like Udacity, BBC, LendingTree, Paypal, Houzz, Stitch Fix, Discovery media automate and personalize their marketing customer engagement at scale. We are 100 people currently, and plan to grow to 170 in 2021 across multiple locations (San Francisco, Charlotte, Pune India, remote ok). You get the true startup experience of working in a small team, and yet experiencing high growth.

We have a modern tech stack built with microservices architecture on AWS. In terms of programming languages, we use Golang where we need high concurrency, Erlang when we need distributed computing, Ruby on Rails for APIs/dashboard and business logic, Python for our machine learning pipelines. We use multiple databases including Cassandra/ScyllaDB, REDIS, ElasticSearch, Hbase, Druid, S3, Postgres and more, we optimize for “data usage” versus “data storage”. Massive data scale (nearly a petabyte of data).

Hiring for:

Real-time and distributed systems engineers

Full-stack engineers

Data services engineers

SRE & DevOps

Security Engineer

kola··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2021)
Blueshift | Software Engineer(s) | Full time | Remote | https://blueshift.com/jobs/

Blueshift is a fast growing enterprise SaaS company in the Marketing Technology and Customer Experience space. We were ranked #23 in the Bay Area in terms of revenue growth by Deloitte. We help brands like Udacity, BBC, LendingTree, Paypal, Houzz, Stitch Fix, Discovery media automate and personalize their marketing customer engagement at scale. We are 100 people currently, and plan to grow to 170 in 2021 across multiple locations (San Francisco, Charlotte, Pune India, remote ok). You get the true startup experience of working in a small team, and yet experiencing high growth.

We have a modern tech stack built with microservices architecture on AWS. In terms of programming languages, we use Golang where we need high concurrency, Erlang when we need distributed computing, Ruby on Rails for APIs/dashboard and business logic, Python for our machine learning pipelines. We use multiple databases including Cassandra/ScyllaDB, REDIS, ElasticSearch, Hbase, Druid, S3, Postgres and more, we optimize for “data usage” versus “data storage”. Massive data scale (nearly a petabyte of data).

Hiring for:

Real-time and distributed systems engineers

Full-stack engineers

Data services engineers

SRE & DevOps

Security Engineer

kola··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)
Blueshift | REMOTE / Bay Area / Charlotte | Full-time, Remote | https://blueshift.com/jobs

Blueshift’s SaaS software empowers cutting edge B2C brands to drive 1:1 engagement on every channel. Blueshift is growing rapidly, and has consistently been rated a leader in the CDP and Multi-channel automation categories. We're backed by top tier VCs, and have been recognized as Deloitte Fast 500 fastest growing companies in USA, and a “Cool Vendor for AI in Marketing” by Gartner. Customers love our product, and achieve tremendous ROI from using our solution.

1. Senior Software Engineer - Elixir / Cassandra / Ruby / ElasticSearch / Distributed systems https://blueshift.com/careers/?gh_jid=4263429002

2. Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer - AWS, Docker https://blueshift.com/careers/?gh_jid=4913893002

3. Senior Data Services Engineer https://blueshift.com/careers/?gh_jid=5036952002

4. Technical Solution engineer https://blueshift.com/careers/?gh_jid=5036953002

kola··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)
Blueshift | REMOTE / Bay Area / Charlotte | Full-time, Remote | https://blueshift.com

Blueshift’s SaaS software empowers cutting edge B2C brands to drive 1:1 marketing on every channel. Blueshift is growing rapidly, and has consistently been rated a leader in the CDP and Multi-channel automation categories. We're backed by top tier VCs, and have been recognized as Deloitte Fast 500 fastest growing companies in USA, and a “Cool Vendor for AI in Marketing” by Gartner. Customers love our product, and achieve tremendous ROI from using our solution.

1. Senior Platform Software Engineer - Elixir / Cassandra / Ruby / ElasticSearch / Distributed systems https://blueshift.com/careers/?gh_jid=4263429002

2. Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer - AWS, Docker https://blueshift.com/careers/?gh_jid=4913893002

3. Senior Data Services Engineer https://blueshift.com/careers/?gh_jid=5036952002

4. Technical Solution engineer https://blueshift.com/careers/?gh_jid=5036953002

kola··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)
Blueshift | Bay Area / Charlotte / REMOTE OK| Full-time, Remote | https://blueshift.com

Blueshift’s AI-Powered Marketing Platform empowers cutting edge B2C brands to drive 1:1 marketing on every channel. Blueshift is growing rapidly, and has consistently been rated a leader in the CDP and Multi-chautomation categories. We're backed by top tier VCs, and have been recognized as Deloitte Fast 500 fastest growing companies in USA, and a “Cool Vendor for AI in Marketing” by Gartner. Customers love our product, and achieve tremendous ROI from using our solution.

1. Senior Platform Software Engineer - Elixir / Cassandra / Ruby / ElasticSearch https://blueshift.com/careers/?gh_jid=4263429002

2. Senior Site Reliability Engineer - AWS, Docker https://blueshift.com/careers/?gh_jid=4913893002

3. Senior Data Services Engineer https://blueshift.com/careers/?gh_jid=5036952002

4. Technical Solution engineer https://blueshift.com/careers/?gh_jid=5036953002

kola··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)
Blueshift | Senior Software Engineer | Remote (anywhere in USA or Canada) | Full-time | https://blueshift.com

Blueshift (saas customer data platform) is hiring a senior software engineer (remote role anywhere in a US / Canada timezone) to build & scale data ingestion pipelines that process a petabyte of data. Familiarity with Ruby on Rails / Elixir, micro-services, experience working with real-time & distributed systems, AWS (or other cloud environments), SQL & noSQL databases.

Apply here: https://blueshift.com/careers/?gh_jid=5008162002

More about the company here: https://blueshift.com

kola··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2020)
Blueshift | Remote USA / Canada| Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Blueshift (saas customer data platform) is hiring a senior site reliability engineer (remote role anywhere in a US / Canada timezone) to build & operate a 1000+ node AWS cluster managing a petabyte of data. Familiarity with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes.

Apply here: https://blueshift.com/careers/?gh_jid=4913893002

More about the company here: https://blueshift.com

kola··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)
Blueshift | Bay Area / Charlotte / REMOTE OK| Full-time, Remote | https://blueshift.com

Blueshift’s AI-Powered Marketing Platform empowers cutting edge B2C brands to drive 1:1 marketing on every channel. Blueshift is growing rapidly, and has consistently been rated a leader in the CDP and Multi-chautomation categories. We're backed by top tier VCs, and have been recognized as a “Cool Vendor for AI in Marketing” by Gartner. Customers love our product, and achieve tremendous ROI from using our solution.

1. Senior Platform Software Engineer - Elixir / Cassandra / Ruby / ElasticSearch https://blueshift.com/careers/?gh_jid=4263429002

2. Senior Site Reliability Engineer - AWS, Docker https://blueshift.com/careers/?gh_jid=4913893002

kola··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)
Blueshift | San Francisco, CA | Full-Time | Onsite | https://blueshift.com

Blueshift empowers B2C marketers to activate first-party customer data, unlock predictive insights, and automate personalized campaigns across all marketing channels.

  * Full-stack engineer (Ruby on Rails, AngularJS) https://careers.jobscore.com/careers/blueshift/jobs/software-engineer-full-stack-bYQBTU6CCr45MEiGakhP3Q?ref=rss&sid=68

  * Software Engineer Distributed Systems (Golang, Erlang, Ruby) https://careers.jobscore.com/careers/blueshift/jobs/software-engineer-real-time-distributed-systems-cxvM2-kjer5ic-iGalkWKP?ref=rss&sid=68

  * Software Engineer AI Infrastructure (Hive, Spark, Hbase) https://careers.jobscore.com/careers/blueshift/jobs/infrastructure-engineer-ai-systems-dZ4DxCY2mr56AmeMg-44q7?ref=rss&sid=68
kola··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)
Blueshift Labs | San Francisco | Full-time | Onsite | VISA

== About Blueshift ==

Blueshift (https://getblueshift.com) is based in San Francisco, building a “Segment of One Marketing” solution used by consumer marketers to drive higher revenue and retention across all marketing channels. The company is founded by repeat entrepreneurs, and backed by top tier VC firms.

== Hiring for ==

* Full-stack engineer - Build our dashboard used by marketers to personalize marketing for millions of users. Ruby/Rails, Angular.js

* Backend engineer - Build micro-services for content targeting, user profiles etc. in Go/Ruby.

* DevOps engineer - Join as our first devops engineer to build our docker & chef based infrastructure on AWS

== Contact us ==

https://getblueshift.com/jobs

kola··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)
Blueshift - http://getblueshift.com/ - San Francisco, CA - fulltime, VISA-transfers OK

We are an early-stage startup focused on improving customer engagement through data science.

We are looking for: * Full-stack engineer (Ruby on Rails) * Data scientist & Machine Learning expert

We offer competitive salaries and early-stage equity. You can learn more about our jobs here: http://getblueshift.com/jobs

kola··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2013)
Palo Alto, CA

Groupon Goods is hiring Software Engineers - backend & frontend, and experienced managers/leads.

Groupon Goods is the fastest growing e-commerce business on the web and operates like a startup within Groupon. We use Ruby on Rails, Backbone.js, node.js and ship millions of packages around the world. Help us build algorithms for inventory forecasting & optimization, sift through millions of vendor products to find promising ones and build the de-facto discovery-driven e-commerce site.

Contact in my HN profile if this is something you'd be interested.

kola··on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (March 2012)
Palo Alto, CA

(H1b Welcome)

Groupon recently acquired Mertado (YC W2010) to build Groupon Goods. The Groupon Goods team is hiring a number of engineers to help build a discovery-based e-commerce platform and unique user experiences to delight our consumers.

Some of our open positions -

* Software Engineer Backend - http://www.groupon.com/jobs?jvi=oPZFVfw8,job * Software Engineer Frontend - http://www.groupon.com/jobs?jvi=ogoSVfwb,job * E-Commerce Architect - http://www.groupon.com/jobs?jvi=o7f2Vfw3,job

We use - Ruby on Rails, MySQL, JavaScript, Redis, CoffeeScript, Backbone.js and more.

Other jobs @ Groupon: http://www.groupon.com/jobs

kola··on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (June 2011)
Redwood City, CA (Remote is possible)

Mertado is hiring Software Engineers to build an eCommerce stack with MongoDB, LAMP & Python. http://www.mertado.com/?spact=cms&cmpg=jobs&maid=2

kola··on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2011)
Palo Alto, CA

Mertado (YC W2010) - Help users discover interesting merchandise.

We use - MongoDB, MySQL, Python, LAMP.

* Frontend Engineers - (APIs, CSS/JS). Help build our web app, Facebook app and our new embedded shopping offering.

* Backend engineers - Work on product recommendation engine, custom in house analytics engine, APIs, scalability & build platform to integrate with hundreds of our vendors.

* Interns - Web developers, backend developers, marketing.

Why talk to us? Awesome team, well funded, really big market opportunity (think Zappos, QVC).

Apply - jobs@mertado.com

More info - http://www.mertado.com/jobs

kola··on Who's hiring interns?
Mertado is hiring interns in Palo Alto, CA.

http://www.mertado.com/index.php?spact=cms&cmpg=jobs&;

kola··on VideoJS (Zencoder, YC W10) re-launches with new site, new features, still free.
Good work guys!
kola··on Implementing Shazam with Java in a weekend
Great read, thanks.
kola··on Ask HN: Who's hiring? (September 2010)
Mertado.com, Palo Alto, CA
kola··on Ask HN: Who's hiring?
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/web/1639734503.html

Position: Senior Web Developer

Location: Palo Alto, CA

kola··on Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund
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kola··on To Yahoo: Open up your search index to gain market share
I couldn't agree with you more sadiq. Yahoo has an opportunity to disrupt the vertical search space by opening up. New interesting apps could be better integrated with Yahoo's search platform. I think it would definitely create a dent in Google's search market share. Facebook, AWS, Android are testimony to this. Opening up would definitely not hurt Yahoo, and would very likely help it earn trust from developers and be part of the ecosystem.