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Trapit's core machine learning and personalization engine continues to expand; bring your elite programming and systems architecture skills to bear on the challenges and excitement of growing big distributed consumer Internet infrastructure along with big data NoSQL environments and a cutting-edge data- and compute-intensive learning engine.

Skills
• Deep experience in building big distributed data and compute clusters
• Multi-threaded, high-performance programming experience in Python, C/C++, and optionally other high-level dynamic languages
• Experience with Cassandra or other large-scale clustered NoSQL infrastructures
• Real experience in active production environments
• Rockstar UNIX/Linux architecture, development, and systems skills

Technologies
The Trapit engineering team uses a number of languages and open source components for our platform. You should enjoy working with some or all of the following:
• Linux with empasis on deployment automation
• NoSQL (Cassandra/Redis)
• Concurrent Python (the majority of our code)
• Java/Clojure
• C/C++/Objective-C
• Lucene or other search information retrieval
• Node/Backbone/jQuery
• nginx/gunicorn
• Distributed version control, especially git
• Familiarity with lean/kanban/scrum development practices

Compensation
Competitive Salary + Stock Options + Comprehensive Benefits + 401K + Generous Vacation Program

Working at Trapit
We are a diverse collection of passionate people who truly enjoy working together. We're scrappy and believe "fun" and "work" are not mutually exclusive concepts. Highly collaborative small team vibe. Fast paced, creative startup environment; never a dull moment. Everyone is a contributor. Office is located in dramatic converted warehouse space on SE Water. No cubicles! Lots of coffee.

About Trapit
Trapit makes surfing the Internet beautiful, fun and uniquely personal. Connect with long standing passions and explore new subjects, all delivered in an elegant experience meticulously designed for the web and iPad. Built with the same AI technology that powers Siri, Trapit delivers an on-going personalized selection of the newest articles, features, blogs and video on the topics you care about and learns as you use it.

Escape with Trapit and hone in on only the subjects that matter to you. Keep up with the topics that don't always make the headlines, or even the ones that do. Discover new bloggers, online magazines, newspaper features and more among Trapit's over 100,000 (and growing) hand-picked sources.. Use Trapit to explore and discover, because really, that's what the Internet was made for.

"It's kind of like finding the best blog ever!" -- PC Magazine

"I can find endless amounts of relevant reading..." -- ReadWriteWeb

"So what makes Trapit different? It learns what you are into, so it can tailor each set of results specifically to your interests." -- Wired

"TrapIt has the technology to back up its service, and it offers a unique value proposition to users who want to read content from sources outside of the big publishers and blogs." -- Betakit

Check out some more recent buzz about Trapit:
The Economist | http://www.economistgroup.com/leanback/lean-back-reading/trapit-gives-readers-darpa-intelligence-tools-to-filter-content-from-the-web/
TechCrunc | http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/24/trapit-platform-astro/
Digital Trends | http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/trapit-brings-its-personalized-learning-search-app-to-the-ipad-where-it-belongs/
Portland Monthly | http://www.portlandmonthlymag.com/issues/archives/articles/local-startup-trapit-may-2012/
Betakit | http://betakit.com/2012/04/13/personalized-news-service-trapit-growing-as-competition-increases
TheNextWeb | http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/02/07/pinterest-integration-turns-content-discovery-site-trapit-into-a-pinners-dream/
Lifehacker | http://lifehacker.com/5874860/trapit-delivers-personalized-news-and-articles-based-on-your-interests
TechCrunch | http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/06/siri-sibling-trapit-raises-6-2-million-series-a-from-horizons/
Robert Scoble | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cvIeSesD44
PaidContent | http://paidcontent.org/article/419-my-own-private-internet/