Zoosk Engineering

Zoosk R&D — A Retrospective

Earlier this year, Zoosk decided to try something a little different with our hiring and onboarding process.

Node.js at Zoosk!

Zoosk is now using Node.js to serve many of our pages and we plan to gradually transition from our current, typical LAMP stack to serving most customer facing content from Node in the near future!

To em or not to em? That is the media query question.

Evolution of the Photo System at Zoosk

Because Zoosk is a dating website, photos are an integral part of our users’ experiences. Having a good profile photo helps Zoosk’s users make good first impressions. This is why we are continuously trying to identify better ways for users to upload, edit, and…

Better Performance with SASS & Compass

SASS, or Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets, is a framework for writing CSS in a more programmatic way. Compass provides additional awesomeness in the form of CSS3 and grid mixins, as well as automatic spriting.

Bugs at Zoosk from the VIP point of view!

Consider the following three simple facts.

1. Continuous Improvement is good. People love it. It’s simply build, fail, and learn. And in order to learn faster, you have to build faster. But you might also fail faster — even faster…