Talent Pool for Full Stack Software Engineer

Company Description

THE COMPANY

NewsCred is the world’s leading content marketing platform. We’re powering marketing technology for the future – helping brands transform the way they connect with people, build brand love and win more customers. We enable top brands such as Pepsi, Pfizer, Dell, Diageo and Spotify to create amazing content experiences with simplicity, speed and global scale.

NewsCred's Content Marketing Cloud software provides the easiest end-to-end solution for content planning, creation, publishing and analytics. In one place, brands gain unprecedented access to the world's largest content marketplace, including licensed content from over 5,000 publishers and original content from our award-winning journalist network.

Every day, across three offices, more than 180 brilliant people come to work at NewsCred, and commit their talents, passions, time and energy to shape the future of an industry. We love working with incredibly talented people. We love helping our clients win. We love inventing new products. We love being trailblazers in a new category. And we are proud of the fact that each year we pay millions of dollars to help inspire and employ the next generation of great journalists, artists, and creators.

We're not making small changes; we're building technology to completely rethink how people create, consume, and share their stories with the world.

Learn more at newscred.com and follow us on Twitter @newscred

Job Description

This is not a position we are hiring for. Apply in this section if you feel your resume is relevant to this general job description. We will be looking into this database from time to time when we have a new opening for positions that are not advertised. 

Overview

NewsCred, the world's leading content marketing platform, is looking to hire software engineers who are interested to work full stack.

If you are the kind of programmer who loves the challenge of learning new skills and using them to solve interesting problems, NewsCred is the right place for you.

Responsibilities

• Use modern MVC frameworks on the server side (Node.js) and the client side (Angular.js);
• Develop and maintain the NewsCred API, the core service of the NewsCred Platform;
• Build and maintain the distributed system that consumes and curates licensed content from thousands of providers;
• Work on our search and analytics infrastructure;
• Own the system architecture and continuously work on ensuring its scalability on AWS;
• Work with a diverse stack of open source technologies (Python/Django, Celery/ RabbitMQ, Apache Solr/Java, MySQL/ MongoDB/ Redis, Ansible, Unix);
• Write tests to ensure high code quality.

Qualifications

Requirements

• Minimum 1-7 year(s) experience;
• Strong problem solving and coding skills are required;
• Impeccable English communication skills;
• Interest in full stack programming is required;
• Experience with a version control system (preferably Git);
• Experience with MVC web and JavaScript development (Rails/Django/Zend/Symfony, Backbone.js/Angular.js);
• Experience with relational databases is essential;
• Theoretical and practical knowledge of REST and SOA is a preferable;
• Experience with NoSQL systems is preferable;
• Experience with: MySQL, MongoDB, Nginx, Apache, Load balancing, Caching and CDN, DNS Systems, Security Hardening, Monitoring and alerting Systems, VPN (Hardware and OpenVPN), Bash and Perl/Python Scripting, Configuration management with Puppet or Ansible.

Education

• We don`t care where you went to school as long as you are smart, ready to work hard and have fun.

Additional Information

What we can offer you! 

• Best in class compensation plans
• Awesome Culture - passionate, driven and fun team
• Two annual festival bonuses
• Flexible vacation policy
• Transport facilities
• Free catered lunch
• Medical insurance
• Training and career development

Please let us know why you are interested in this position by including a cover letter with your application.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Please, no third-party resumes for this role. Candidates submitted by agencies will not be reviewed.