jobs
We're Hiring!
Web search is not only one of the most important technologies of our time, but it is also incredibly fun to work on because it requires cutting-edge algorithms from a wide range of disciplines: distributed systems, information extraction, data mining and algorithmic artificial intelligence all rolled into one. It is one of the hardest startup challenges today – but the monetization is much higher than anything else on the web, and there are fewer credible competitors than most people think.
blekko is a small, well-funded search start-up that recently launched in beta. Our team has founded multiple successful startups and held leadership positions at major tech companies such as Google, Sun and Netscape/AOL. Our investors include top-tier venture firms and a roster of highly prominent Silicon Valley angels including Marc Andreessen, Ron Conway, and two early Googlers.
Our work environment is that rare combination of collegial, intense, interesting and fun. We offer competitive compensation, incentive equity options, terrific health and other benefits including free lunches.
Our office is located in Redwood Shores across the street from Oracle.
We currently have these openings:
Back-End Software Engineer
Blekko is a consumer facing web search engine. We have our own crawl, index, ranking model, webserver and NoSQL database. Most of the code and modeling that supports our product has been done here at Blekko. Since we are still a small company, there are lots of interesting projects for everyone to work on. The code is mostly written in perl, with the performance sensitive parts dropped down to C or C++.
We are interested in people interested in distributed programming and computational problems, dealing with large amounts of data. Most of the work at Blekko is applied problem solving in a complicated system with many moving parts. We use approximations and probabilistic strategies often.
We are interested in enthusiastic contributors whose backgrounds match the following:
- Self-motivated engineer interested in growing their skills on difficult problems
- Search engineering, bonus for web search
- Experience in tech startups and/or domain-relevant companies
- Large-scale distributed systems, especially NoSQL type databases.
- Applied math, statistics or machine learning, particularly as applied to approximation and hypothesis testing
- UNIX/linux, perl, C/C++, python
Please send a copy of your resume to careers+backend@blekko.com.
Front-End Software Engineer
Unlike other search engines, blekko has a rich set of user interactions for the creation and editing of slashtags and the browsing of the multi-faceted web data behind our search ranking. We are looking for an engineer to join our front-end team to help drive our ground-breaking approach to creating the first truly open search engine. The ideal candidate has the following background:
- (In descending order of importance): UNIX/Linux, Perl, Javascript/JQuery, HTML/CSS
- Usage of AJAX technologies to create interactive web pages
- Web page templating systems
- Optimization of web page rendering and interaction speed
- Integration with back-end database systems, traditional or NoSQL
- Degree in computer science or related area
- Industry experience, especially in startups and/or domain-relevant Internet companies
- Self-starter and comfortable working within a small team
Please send a copy of your resume to careers+frontend@blekko.com.
Front-End Developer & UI Designer
blekko is a small, well-funded search start-up with a world-class team from whom you can learn and hopefully teach a thing or two. Our work environment is that rare combination of collegial, intense, interesting and fun. We offer market rate pay, incentive equity options, terrific health and other benefits and free lunch every Monday and Wednesday.
We are looking for a strong front-end coder of HTML and CSS. You must be able to work on multiple tasks and under quick deadlines. You must be up to date on the latest developments in HTML and CSS coding techniques and have a strong understanding of web standards design and cross browser issues. You will be reporting to the director of product management & design as well as working with our team of engineers on the front-end development of the blekko search engine.
Job Requirements:
- Advanced HTML/CSS knowledge (minimum 3 years)
- Strong understanding of browser differences with respect to rendering HTML/CSS
- Javascript/JQuery
- Versioning systems (SVN, CVS, Mercurial ... etc.)
- Ability to completely code by hand (no WYSIWYG)
- Strong attention to detail
- A strong portfolio of your work history
- Photoshop knowledge
Also Helpful:
- Toolbar design & development experience
- Strong design background
- Mobile development experience
- Email template creation and testing
Please send a copy of your resume to careers+ui@blekko.com.
