Birchbox is hiring students graduating in 2013 to work in the following technology areas:
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Development of customer facing features - you will bring your passion
for seamless user experience and elegant back-end code to developing
features that our customers use on our website every day.
- Data
analytics and machine learning - using your knowledge of statistics and
machine learning, you will work on the software APIs that personalize
every aspect of the Birchbox customer experience, from what people
receive in their boxes to what they see on the site and in emails.
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Algorithms and operations research - if you thrive on tackling complex
optimization problems from design through to implementation, then you
will be kept busy creatively optimizing the way we design Birchboxes and
allocate them to customers.
- Software systems infrastructure
and performance - if you are a backend hacker or software architect in
the making, you will work on building scalable distributed services,
profiling and benchmarking.
The things we look for most in new grads are smarts, passion, and a solid foundation.
Tech @ Birchbox
The technology team at Birchbox is responsible for development (and
maintenance) of the company's customer-facing sites (in the United
States, France, the UK, and Spain), managing hosted and cloud
infrastructure, and closely supporting other teams (logistics,
marketing, et al.) in our 110+-person company. We work with a wide
variety of open-source technologies: Debian-based servers; Chef
deployments; Ruby on Rails, Java and PHP services; and Python, Perl and R
scripts. The size of our team and the breadth of its responsibilities
means we rely on our engineers to be self-motivated and quickly follow
through on tasks without requiring close supervision. In return our
engineers are given leeway to use their own initiative.
Our team spans software engineering, technical operations, product, and data science. Our challenges include:
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evolving our software and systems architecture to support a rapidly
growing customer base across multiple countries and languages;
- designing and implementing the best user experience for our customers; We are striving to revolutionize online retail.
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using data, complex algorithms, and statistics, to personalize the
Birchbox experience for our customers, both offline and online.
Why it's great to work at Birchbox
- The uncommon chance to be at the start of something huge. We dream big. We run fast. We love a challenge.
- The chance to build a fresh infrastructure to express better solutions to old and new problems.
- The opportunity to work on conceiving, designing and building a next-generation ecommerce experience.
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We think Espresso, Cake, Cookies, Chocolate, and Cambodian Sandwiches
are food groups. Which is part of the reason why we also believe in
working out in the office. Push-ups anyone?
- We love our work, our team, and our customers.
About Birchbox
Birchbox is changing the way consumers discover and purchase grooming,
beauty, and lifestyle products. We combine a monthly subscription
service with original editorial content and a fully integrated
e-commerce shop. Every month, members sample high-end products targeted
to fit their personal profile and behavior, learn about them through our
content, and purchase full-size versions of the products they like. Our
platform provides our brand partners with an innovative and efficient
way to access new customers.
Birchbox launched in the Fall of
2010 and is one of the fastest growing companies in New York. We are
backed by top VC firms, including Accel Partners and First Round
Capital. In September 2012, Birchbox expanded internationally with the
acquisition of the Paris based discovery service JolieBox, operating in
France, the UK, and Spain. You can get a feel for the buzz about
Birchbox, by searching for us on YouTube: http://birch.ly/nl6nVp. For
traditional media coverage, checkout our press page:
http://www.birchbox.com/press.
Birchbox has offices in New York, Paris, London and Barcelona.
Our
client is part of a very large fruit and vegetable supplier to the UK
retail sectors and have an enviable record of success and ambitious
plans to grow the business further. Their customers like what they do,
it's all kept simple and straight forward and hard work and application
is rewarded accordingly.
