Jobs

Flipboard, the world's first social magazine, is hiring!

Headed by Mike McCue, former CEO of Tellme, and Evan Doll, former senior iPhone engineer at Apple, Flipboard is on a quest to transform how people discover and share content by combining the beauty and ease of print with the power of social media.

In 2010, Flipboard raised $10.5MM from legendary investors KPCB and Index Ventures, as well as media innovators including Jack Dorsey co-founder of Twitter, Dustin Moskovitz co-founder of Facebook, Ashton Kutcher, and The Chernin Group.

Why join Flipboard?

  • Team-up with cutting-edge thought leaders from Apple, Netflix, Adobe, Ellerdale, Aardvark, Ning, Tellme, and Microsoft, in launching the world's first social magazine across multiple platforms.
  • CEO, Mike McCue, has formidable success building powerful teams that deliver high-level valuation companies, including $800MM acquisition of Tellme by Microsoft.
  • Exciting and collaborative team, working in a converted art studio in the heart of downtown Palo Alto.
  • Compensation including base, equity, plus generous, comprehensive benefits.

Please apply by sending your resume to jobs@flipboard.com and include the title in the subject line.

Openings

Product Designer

Service Developer

Platform QA Engineer

iOS Developer

Front-end Web Developer

Service Engineer

Flipboard has an opening for an ace engineer to design and implement significant new functionality to our cloud-based services and backend infrastructure. This role will allow you to quickly take ownership of major service components, assess, plan, and deliver on significant enhancements and release efficient, highly available and robust code.

We're looking for:

  • 2-5 years of programming experience designing and shipping major components of backend services under tight schedules.
  • Experience with server programming in Java, Python, C++ and other languages
  • Ability to iterate code quickly incorporating feedback and solving problems
  • Linux or UNIX OS experience required
  • Experience working on large scale, database intensive web applications
  • API and protocol design
  • Strong communication and writing skills
  • Graduate degree in Computer Science or related field

Platform QA Engineer

Join our QA team and make a difference in the quality of Flipboard's software seen by millions worldwide. You will lead the development of the Platform QA by developing and maintaining test environments; functional and performance testing of Flipboard's platform including web services, ops infrastructure, and frontend clients; write and maintain test plans and cases, test automation scripts, and QA tools; maintain JIRA projects and triage bugs; work with engineering, operations, and community to debug live Production issues.

We're looking for:

  • 3+ years White Box QA experience (some Blackbox QA too)
  • Unix/Linux environments and knowledge of programming or scripting languages such as JAVA, Perl, Python, or Ruby
  • Browser test automation frameworks (Selenium, Watir, or iMacros)
  • Web load/performance test frameworks (JMeter, Grinder, or Faban)
  • JAVA profiling tools (Yourkit, JProfiler)
  • Popular social networks (Facebook/Twitter)
  • Knowledge of internet technologies including HTTP, Web Services and REST API's, HTML, Javascript, Ajax, CSS, RSS

iOS Developer

Flipboard is hiring talented iOS developers with experience shipping beautiful, high-performance software.

We're looking for:

  • Building iPhone/iPad apps with UIKit and Foundation
  • Performance and memory tuning with Instruments and Shark
  • Using gdb to diagnose and squash bugs
  • Integrating with web services
  • Writing clean, maintainable code while rapidly iterating and shipping

Bonus points for:

  • Using Core Animation to create eye-popping effects and interfaces
  • Multithreading, NSOperationQueue and Blocks/GCD

Product Designer

Palo Alto, CA

Design products to facilitate web & mobile online reading using iOS development platform & design interfaces for the platform. Create original designs that enable interactions across multiple platforms. Integrate graphics and multimedia into portals w/ social media outlets.

Bachelor’s degree w/ 5 yrs. exp. Must have interaction design exp. building apps for iOS design platform.

Master’s in lieu of 2yrs exp. is acceptable.

Send resume to: KT, Flipboard Inc. 818 Emerson Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301

Designer-Web Developer

Flipboard has an opening for a designer to envision and design the future of reading content online. Put your design chops to use across platforms (web and mobile) with particular focus on front end design and web development. Create original designs from scratch in a collaborate environment. Your experience counts. Talent will count more.

We're looking for:

  • Strong portfolio (include links) with examples of designs you've created from beginning to end
  • Strong creative problem solving abilities
  • Strong project management and communication skills
  • Ability to collaborate on projects, take creative direction, and carry projects on your own from beginning to end
  • Strong sense of typography and color
  • Rock star creative skills with InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator
  • Ninja tech skills with JavaScript, HTML and CSS
  • Bonus Points for print and editorial design experience

Front End Web Developer

Flipboard has an opening for a front-end Web Developer.

We're looking for:

  • Experience writing JavaScript, HTML, CSS
  • Expertise with PHP / Python, Ruby on Rails, Django or other frameworks
  • Working knowledge of Photoshop, Fireworks, or Illustrator
  • Building a variety of different web frameworks & tools; mockups
  • Keen eye for clean UI implementation
  • Strong knowledge of website design best practices
  • Strong communication skills and ability to work in a fast paced environment