This is work you will be proud of for the rest of your life.
Working at Flickr.
Engineering.
Flickr is BIG.
Working at Flickr
Flickr lets people share their life in photos and is the best place to discover amazing photos and videos on the web. It's one of the most well known brands on the internet and is visited by over 90 million users every month.
Engineering
Flickr engineering is based on the principles of rapid development, continuous deployment, and individual responsibility. We're looking for passionate and motivated developers to help us make Flickr bigger, better and faster.
Flickr is BIG
Flickr processes millions of photos and videos every day, with billions of photos already online. We serve billions of pageviews and more than 7 billion API requests monthly for over 75 million registered photographers.
Open Positions
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iOS Engineer
We're looking for experienced iOS developers to help us create the next generation of Flickr apps on the iPhone and iPad.
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Senior Android Engineer
We're looking for experienced Android developers to help us create the next generation of Flickr apps for Android devices.
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Frontend / Node.js / Javascript Engineer
Want to build Flickr's new user interfaces, like our HTML5 Uploader? We're looking for experts in JavaScript, HTML, CSS.
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Principal Back End Engineer
Interested in helping shape the experiences on Flickr? The product engineering team helps lead new features and powers one of the most widely used APIs on the web. And continuous deployment rocks.
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Sr. Software Development Engineer (API)
We're working to make sure the API continues to grow and evolve, and we need your help! This is your opportunity to make a huge impact on a platform used by millions and millions of people every day.
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Benefits
As part of Yahoo!, Flickr provides market-leading employment benefits. Head over to the Yahoo! Benefits site to learn more.
Location
We are located in one of the most beautiful places in the world: Downtown San Francisco; a short walk from Market Street, the Ferry Building, North Beach and Chinatown.
Connect with us
Follow us on Twitter, check out our gorgeous photo blog and read the code.flickr Blog for the latest posts from our engineering team.
Popular Code Blog Posts
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Park or Bird
tl;dr: Check it out at parkorbird.flickr.com!
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Flickr's Experience with iOS 9
The basics of integrating iOS 9 Search, Universal Links, and 3D Touch in Flickr for iOS. In order to focus on those features, we simplified some of our examples to demonstrate how you could get started with them in your own app, and to show what challenges we faced.
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Perceptual Image Compression at Flickr
Through our use of perceptual compression, combined with our use of on-the-fly resize and COS, we’ve been able to decrease our storage footprint dramatically, while simultaneously improving user experience.
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Life at Flickr
The Flickr HQ Group photo pool will give you a sense of what it's like to work at Flickr headquarters. (Watch out for finger darts!)
Check out the team and click through to see our Photostreams. Some of us are actually good photographers!