Permutive is focused on understanding and recommending content at scale. We use machine learning and NLP techniques to algorithmically understand the meaning behind content and make sense of people's wide and nuanced interests based on their behavior.

Advertising supports the free web, but most of it is terrible. The most prevalent form of digital advertising is the display ad, a bolt-on that damages the user's experience and is typically irrelevant to their context. We believe engaging content is the future of online monetization, and our first product is an intelligent ad engine for revenue-generating content.

What is the job?

You'll be identifying, building and owning new and existing parts of our product. This can be anything from developing our data collection, processing, and machine learning infrastructure, all the way through to designing how we present analytics on our front-end product.

At least some of the following should excite you(!):

* Working extensively in functional languages (we mostly use Scala, with Akka, Spray, Scalaz; some Haskell)

* Building large-scale distributed systems (we run a microservices architecture on AWS)

* Designing and/or implementing proprietary machine learning models and real-time personalized recommendation systems

* Rapidly designing and building front-end product features

What do we offer?

We have a ton of interesting problems to solve. We're constantly ingesting vast numbers of documents to learn from, tracking millions of interactions with content, computing the interests of millions of users, and making personalized real-time recommendations. This scale impacts every engineering decision we make, and we're looking to build a company with super-smart people excited by the challenges it poses.

As our first engineers you'll play a central role in defining our tech culture and direction. There's a huge opportunity to effect change at scale through real responsibility and ownership of product. And because at this early stage there's so much to do, there's so much to learn and room to grow.

We're based in London, just off Brick Lane. We have our own office and you'll get a shiny new laptop of your choice, monitor(s), and your own desk. Both founders are technical so you'll be working with people who understand engineers and engineering.

Apply here: http://permutive.workable.com/jobs/72041/candidates/new

(Unfortunately we cannot sponsor visas at the moment so you'll need to be eligible to work in the UK!)