Engineering
We’re making it simple to find the content you care about most – anytime, anywhere.
Flipboard engineering tackles an assortment of ambitious projects. With millions of readers flipping tens of millions of articles per day, our engineers are devoted to shipping products that personalize the reading experience. We love clarifying complex problems, experimenting with open source solutions and creating a culture that celebrates constant improvement.
Openings
3 things you need to know about engineering at Flipboard:
heroes, mock o’clock, and (of course)
cat gifs.
It’s vital to build something special, something that goes beyond simply talking about your ideas.
Co-founder Evan Doll
Flipboard’s product interface is so elegant, you’d never guess that what you see is just 15% of the engineering.
Underneath that magazine interface is a data recommendation engine, ad server and back end – all of it powerful enough to drive discovery on Android, advertising on CNN and iOS topic browsing. Our team thrives on that versatility. In a day you can think like a designer, a content producer and an entrepreneur.
CTO Eric Feng
Every contribution counts
VAST Video Ad Service
Videos are more ubiquitous than ever before: there are virtually no boundaries on how, when and where people can interact with video content. Flipboard as a curation platform brings multi-format content to peoples around their personal interests and passions. There has been tremendous opportunity for video ads to perform efficiently on our platform. At Flipboard, we have been building video inventory since 2013 in the form of transcoding, storing, and serving proprietary format video ads on an in-house platform. As we see high-quality beautiful video ads satisfy advertisers, we also face the challenge of scaling the platform to meet the increasing demands of our video ad inventory. To bring Flipboard’s video ad inventory to a larger group of advertisers, we need a programmatic selling channel that supports standard video ad formats, provides easy performance measurement and flexible video behavior control. This is where VAST can help. What is VAST ? VAST is the Video Ad Serving Template...Get to know Flipboard's Engineering team – flip through our magazines.
Boris Aleksandrovsky: Maps and Clocks
Travel around the world and through time from the comfort of your couch with this magazine of creative cartography and time-telling infographics.
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Tim Johnsen: Mmm… Coffee
Foam art, roasting notes and espresso cocktail recipes are collected in this eye-opening guide to the caffeinated world.
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Troy Brant: Eye Candy
Take a mental vacation through a tree tunnel, around volcanoes and under the aurora borealis with this compilation of awe-inspiring landscape photography.
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David Creemer: Three Wheels or Less
Four wheels are for squares. This compilation of extreme dream machines – experimental planes, electric motorcycles, steampunk bikes – proves less is more.
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