PAPIs 2018

At WayUp, the leading platform for connecting college students and young professionals to internships, part-time jobs, and entry-level roles, our technology recommends job listings and other content to users immediately after they join the site and create a profile. In this talk, I discuss how constraints from this business model and site design are reflected in our technical design for job and content recommendation systems. I'll cover separation of concerns, API design, data flow, batch and real-time processes, DevOps, metrics, recommender algorithms, and the impact on user engagement.