Engineering
We’re making it simple to find the content you care about most – anytime, anywhere.
Flipboard engineering tackles an assortment of ambitious projects. With millions of readers flipping tens of millions of articles per day, our engineers are devoted to shipping products that personalize the reading experience. We love clarifying complex problems, experimenting with open source solutions and creating a culture that celebrates constant improvement.
Openings:
3 things you need to know about engineering at Flipboard:
heroes, mock o’clock, and (of course)
cat gifs.
It’s vital to build something special, something that goes beyond simply talking about your ideas.
— Co-founder Evan Doll
Flipboard’s product interface is so elegant, you’d never guess that what you see is just 15% of the engineering.
Underneath that magazine interface is a data recommendation engine, ad server and back end – all of it powerful enough to drive discovery on Android, advertising on CNN and iOS topic browsing. Our team thrives on that versatility. In a day you can think like a designer, a content producer and an entrepreneur.
CTO Eric Feng
Presenting BottomSheet
We are happy to introduce BottomSheet a new Open Source Android UI Component! At Flipboard, we love building visually stunning and highly interactive UIs. When building these UIs, we tend to build them as fairly stand alone components. This makes it very easy for our developers to implement a similar interaction model and aesthetic across the whole product while working in parallel. BottomSheet is a UI component we developed to facilitate a new interaction model for saving an article to one of your magazines (otherwise known as “The Flip UI”). The result of our efforts is a design you can now see in the current version of Flipboard. BottomSheet fits perfectly with Google’s Material Design aesthetic as well, matching their Bottom Sheet specification. We think this component is great for displaying many types of views, from a simple intent picker to something as complex as the example shown from Flipboard. In its simplest form, BottomSheet can be used to show…
Get to know Flipboard's Engineering team – flip through our magazines.
Boris Aleksandrovsky: Maps and Clocks
Travel around the world and through time from the comfort of your couch with this magazine of creative cartography and time-telling infographics.
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Tim Johnsen: Mmm… Coffee
Foam art, roasting notes and espresso cocktail recipes are collected in this eye-opening guide to the caffeinated world.
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Troy Brant: Eye Candy
Take a mental vacation through a tree tunnel, around volcanoes and under the aurora borealis with this compilation of awe-inspiring landscape photography.
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David Creemer: Three Wheels or Less
Four wheels are for squares. This compilation of extreme dream machines – experimental planes, electric motorcycles, steampunk bikes – proves less is more.
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