The Company:

GIPHY is the world’s largest place to search, discover, and create all the GIFs. We’re the leading brand in short-form entertainment and visual communication.

iMessage, Facebook, Twitter, Tinder, Slack, WhatsApp and many more all integrate against our API to serve GIFS to their millions of users across the globe. We serve over 5 billion GIFS every day to more than 300 million people.

We’re a creative and passionate group of GIF-obsessed individuals continuing to build out what we believe is the future of GIFs. We have big goals and are looking for like-minded, talented people to join us.

The Opportunity:

How do you deliver relevant search results quickly? How can the accuracy of those results be measured? How can we engineer a search that learns from its past performance? We are looking for an outstanding engineer who love solving interesting challenges related to search at scale to help us answer questions like these. This engineer will be responsible for improving the world's best GIF and Sticker search engine.

You'll be joining a wildly creative, fun and talented group of individuals who are passionate about building out the future of micro entertainment. We have big dreams and goals for 2018 and are looking for like-minded, skilled people to join us!

What You’ll Do:

• Responsible for developing the innovative search platform supporting all GIPHY systems and partner client applications.
• Strive to continually improve and simplify the search infrastructure, and will apply your love of tackling challenging problems to innovate on core search areas such as indexing, query execution, metrics tracking, and scaling for the future.
• A/B test different algorithms and techniques to make evidence-based decisions on search improvements.
• Apply a structured approach to predict, measure and evaluate the trade-offs of various possible solutions to search-related business problems, taking into account various data points such as implementation time to market, cost, and scalability.
• Work with tools, languages, and frameworks such as Scala, Akka, Python, Spark, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, and AWS.

Who You Are:

• Experience engineering a search application at high scale
• BA/BS in Computer Science, Math/Finance, Physics, Applied Economics, Statistics or other technical field preferred or relevant experience.
• Strong understanding of one or more programming languages.
• Excellent communication skills
• Sense of humor and love of GIFs
• JVM experience preferred.
• Familiarity with Amazon Web Services (AWS), specifically Elasticsearch
• Understanding of principles of distributed system design
• Start-up experience
• Familiarity with Agile principles