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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
Software Engineer, Android
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 Android team, we want people who are excited to build 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 Android 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
Software Engineer, Machine Learning
Requirements
- PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning or a related technical field
- 4+ years of relevant software development experience with one or more of the following: language processing, image processing, pattern recognition, classification, recommendation systems, ranking systems or similar.
- Self-starting scientific thinker who loves to experiment with new datasets and enjoys inventing new solutions in the face of ambiguities.
- Solid software development experience with one or more general purpose programming languages
- Familiarity with deep learning frameworks such as Tensorflow, Keras, or Pytorch
- Solid Machine Learning background, familiar with most machine learning methods and experience working with different types of datasets and varied domains
- 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
Data Scientist
Requirements
- MS or PhD in a quantitative discipline (e.g., Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics) or equivalent practical experience
- 3 years of relevant work experience, including expertise with statistical data analysis such as linear models, multivariate analysis, stochastic models, sampling methods
- Experience with statistical software (e.g., R, Python, MATLAB, or pandas) and database languages (e.g., SQL)
- Demonstrated creativity and self-direction
- Willingness to both teach others and learn new techniques
- Demonstrated skills in selecting the right statistical tools given a data analysis problem
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Passion for discovering solutions hidden in data sets and working with stakeholders to help build great products
