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by knerd1 4641 days ago
New York, NY BIRCHBOX http://www.birchbox.com/about/tech

Help us reinvent retail. Birchbox is a discovery commerce company which helps subscribers find new products they love. We're growing by leaps and bounds. Just 3 years old, Birchbox has over 400,000 subscribers in 4 countries. We're hiring data scientists and engineers at all levels.

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.

Our team spans software engineering, technical operations, product, and data science. Our challenges include:

* 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. *using data, complex algorithms, and statistics, to personalize the Birchbox experience for our customers, both offline and online.