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You’re Brilliant. We’re Hiring.
Make the mundane magical – that’s our mantra. Sunshine is focused on taking sophisticated technology and quietly solving everyday problems. If you are passionate about building technologies to help consumers navigate the practical, we would love to meet you!
Sunshine Contacts and Sunshine Birthdays are the first products to launch in what will be a portfolio of apps. We are also eager to innovate in scheduling, group communication, event organization, and more.
While we’re obviously biased, the team at Sunshine is awesome. We’re a mix of
long‑time colleagues (Marissa and Enrique have been working together since our youngest engineers were in kindergarten!) and those newer to the mix. As we look to grow our team, we value diversity in the classic sense as well as a diversity of opinions, values, and ideas.
Above all, everyone on our team is smart, loves to learn, and is NICE. Because life is too short to spend time working with people who aren’t nice.
Our office is in Palo Alto, California.
Open Roles
Any questions? Reach out to recruiting@sunshine.com
Software Engineer, iOS
You are an amazing software engineer that loves taking new ideas and algorithms and applying them in creative ways. We are a small, fast growing start-up, eager to build meaningful, everyday apps at scale. Our first product is Sunshine Contacts, but we are excited about building so much more with your help.
We are passionate about making the mundane magical: building everyday apps that put people first and quietly solve problems using sophisticated technology.
As an early team member for our iOS team, we want people who are excited to prototype end-to-end applications with very little formal direction. If working in a fast-paced environment where you will play a key role both in experimentation and in implementation sounds interesting to you, please consider applying!
Requirements
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 4+ years of relevant full-time iOS development experience
- Interest in the consumer space, willingness to roll-up sleeves and do hands-on development on day one
- Experience with quick prototyping and working through ambiguities. We are defining our product specs through innovation and improvisation from every member of team
- Solid understanding of object-oriented programming and familiarity with various design and architectural patterns
- Ability to think critically about products and to shape technical and product strategy
- Good written and spoken communication skills
UX/UI Designer
You are an accomplished UX / UI Designer who has an entrepreneurial mindset who likes to reimagine everyday tasks. We are a small, fast growing start-up, eager to build meaningful, everyday apps at scale. Our first product is Sunshine Contacts, but we are excited about building so much more with your help.
Requirements
- 5+ years of relevant full-time work experience
- Interest in the mobile consumer space
- Must be a self-starter and do hands-on, detail-oriented design on day one
- Experience with quick prototyping and working through ambiguities.
- We are defining our product specs through innovation and improvisation from every member of team
- Familiarity with iOS and web design preferred
- Experience with Sketch and Zeppelin a plus
- Good written and spoken communication skills
Software engineer – Systems
Responsible for building applications for consumer media and artificial intelligence. Responsible for building prototypes in the assistance space and playing a key role both in the ideation and implementation of consumer media projects. Ensure project implementation complies with customer quality and specifications. Support the testing and launching efforts of new artificial intelligence products.
Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. Build the libraries and frameworks that support large and complex web applications. Responsible for two core aspects of Sunshine’s products. The first is building the core systems and infrastructure, and the second is developing the algorithms and AI techniques behind our mobile applications.
Our core systems require us to build a highly scalable and cost-efficient data storage layer, which lends itself well to developing complex algorithms and business logic on that storage layer. Build a services architecture that can effectively support different flavors of algorithms and business logic. Develop and
optimize the core algorithms themselves. Mentor and manage a team of Software Engineers.
Requirements
Education/Experience:
– Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field and five (5) years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience as a Software Engineer or a related role. In lieu of Bachelor’s degree and five (5) years of experience, will accept a Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field and three (3) years of experience as a Software Engineer or a related role.
Special Requirements:
– Work Experience with: Programming language C, C++ and/or Java, and Scala; functional languages; Database technologies; building reliable, low-latency and high-performance application systems and services; CPU and memory optimizations, operating system services, computer networking concepts, and cloud computing platforms; algorithms for text and imagee processing and extraction; and, machine learning algorithms.
People matter to us a lot. Just celebrating diversity isn’t enough — we commit to unabashedly tailoring our hiring practices, our processes, and our culture to foster an inclusive workplace for people of all backgrounds. Sunshine is proud to be an equal opportunity employer working to raise the standards of diversity in tech.
