Prefer - Lead Backend Engineer (Ruby on Rails/Postgres)

You would be the third full-time engineer working along myself and another engineer (the two of us are the former iOS and Android leads at Tumblr). You’d work primarily on our Ruby on Rails backend, working directly with the other engineers, our designer, and CEO to build out new product features. We’re eight full-time employees at the moment. We raised a Series A from Benchmark, and our seed round was led by Scott Belsky (our founder/board chairman, Chief Product Officer at Adobe and formerly founder of Behance) and Garrett Camp (Uber co-founder, currently CEO of Expa).

Prefer is building a platform for the future of work, on a mission to support the growing class of independent professionals.

https://prefer.com/jobs/lead-backend-engineer

Position is ONSITE either in NYC or San Francisco.

Thanks! It's linked to in the post, but we've also created a GitHub repo containing all of the same information: https://github.com/tumblr/ios-extension-issues.

Seems like a better way to solicit feedback and provide updates than a blog post.

What about some kind of integration with CocoaPods? Seems like there's going to be some duplicated effort here.

Yep, going to look in to this in the near future. Going to talk to someone at CocoaPods on Friday.

Awesome!

2nding

Thanks :)

For what? :)

User irace is an engineer at tumblr, apparently.

They're solving different problems. Marin Usalj (Alcatraz developer) is actually a member of the CocoaPods core team: http://cocoapods.org/about

This is crazy talk. While I'm certainly not saying that Objective-C is perfect, or that Apple shouldn't do more, to say they've done absolutely nothing to evolve the language since the 80s is flat out incorrect. Look at blocks, ARC, object-literals, etc.

This is really nice, but am I missing something or is there no way to go past the first page of content?

Here's a simple JavaScript/native bridge implementation: https://gist.github.com/3688560

I'm the developer of Tumblr for iPhone and sorry to hear this. I know that web views have their drawbacks and we're working hard to make the app faster and more stable in every way.

While we have your ear: just wondering what the thought process behind the latest redesign is? Yes it's really~pretty...but the functionalities that made the older app attractive are mostly gone.

- cant long press to copy a tumblr link (heaven forbid I'd like to share a link OUTSIDE of the app - cant post YouTube urls in video post - reblogs won't let you delete prior comments by others (sometimes you have to clean up cluttered reblogs) - you took away options to open in safari in many instances as well.

These were not intentional omissions. 3.0 was a complete rewrite and there are still many features that we know we need to add in order to be on par with the web experience.

I strongly encourage any users with feedback or feature requests to hit up my ask box: http://blog.bryanirace.com/ask. We really are listening and plan on providing the best mobile Tumblr experience we possibly can.

Edit: Worth noting that we added post sharing options in 3.1 (long press on the 'Like' button).

Eh, it's not the only thing I find wrong with Tumblr, and I'm yet to try out your latest release (stepped on debit card, broke it, cancelled it, iTunes charge failed, no upgrade for me)

Please try going native, the performance increase would be in the order of magnitudes.

Are you the only one working on the app?

I'm not the only one but it's a very small team at the moment. We have ambitious goals that we're aggressively working towards though.

Tumblr content can be quite diverse and often contains arbitrary user-inputted HTML, numerous inline images, etc. It's non-trivial to render but as I mentioned, we're working hard to provide an even better mobile experience.