Chute

Chute (YC W12) is a real-time brand marketing platform, we help brands engage with their customers by tracking user generated photos and videos across Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, and Facebook.

Founded 2011
16-50 employees
  • Enterprise Software
  • Headquarters address
    480 2nd Street #302, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA

    Chute (YC W12) is a real-time brand marketing platform. We help brands engage with their customers by tracking user photos and videos across Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, and Facebook. The backend runs on Ruby on Rails and Node.js, with Backbone + Marionette, and React + Flux for our web application frontends. Then we run data analytics against the collected data stream with Kafka + Storm. Our systems run at a large scale and are often distributed, and so efficiency and testing are incredibly important.
    Our Platform and APIs, which power everything from billboards, to banner ads, to native mobile apps with real time content from brands and consumers.

    We believe the future of brand marketing is visual and our tools to manage, measure and drive engagement have become essential for brand marketers. Chute works with some of the world’s biggest brands and publishers including NBC News, Turner, Condé Nast, the NBA, New York Times, Starbucks, and Ann Taylor. We’re headquartered in the SoMa district of San Francisco, minutes away from Muni, BART and Caltrain, as well as, have an office in the Flatiron district of New York.

    Tech stack

    Ruby, Rails, Node.js, React + Flux, Backbone, Data analytics with Kafka + Storm, Redis, MongoDB, Elastic Search

    Benefits

    Compensation and retirement

    401k plan

    Health and wellness

    Insurance (Health)
    Insurance (Dental)
    Insurance (Vision)
    Insurance (Life)
    Insurance (Disability)

    Values and quality of life

    Catered meals
    Chute - We <3 four-legged friends in the office. Bonus points if they can commit a feature.
    Chute - Lunchtime in SF