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. Our cutting-edge technology enables top brands such as Pepsi, Pfizer, Dell, Diageo, and Spotify to create amazing content experiences with simplicity, speed, and global scale.

Every day, across three offices, more than 200 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.

NewsCred has always had a clear social mission – to help the journalism industry survive by building the world’s first content ecosystem and disrupting the status quo.

How are we doing that? By building a revolutionary technology platform for all of the world’s content. Filtering, streaming and organizing millions of articles a day, in real-time. That’s a lot of data, a lot of content and a lot of opportunity to build something amazing. Join a brilliant, fun team of engineers that are solving big problems every day.

The work

NewsCred is looking for a Senior Search Engineer to help build search applications for the world’s premier repository of syndicated journalistic content.  NewsCred delivers highly targeted feeds of articles, images, and videos to its customers in real-time, selecting from hundreds of millions of indexed documents. Our search infrastructure is cloud-hosted and highly distributed.  You will play a key role in constantly improving the performance and quality of our search and recommendation systems.  Individuals that succeed at NewsCred are intelligent, highly motivated, fearless team players with great senses of humor.  They proven self-starters and quick learners. You will write lots of code that solves both visual and technical challenges, and deliver high impact solutions to our customers. You will need to apply your knowledge to scalable, highly available, distributed systems.

The Stack

We’re not dogmatic about specific technologies but here’s a list of some of the stuff we’re using:

• Python
• Solr
• Django
• AngularJS
• MySQL
• MongoDB
• Ansible

The Team

The engineering team at NewsCred consists of some of the most brilliant, considerate, and fun-loving people you’ll ever meet. We're highly selective; we seek people who can contribute and share in the success and happiness of our team. We organize ourselves into small, autonomous teams that are as self-sufficient and independent as possible. This allows us to maintain our scrappy, entrepreneurial culture as we grow.

About You

You love creating software so much that it’s disconcerting to your family and friends. The idea of game night and free lunch sound fun. You find few things as satisfying as reading and writing beautiful code and you plan on pushing some code on your first day. You’re irresistibly curious about the latest emerging technologies. You may or may not have a computer science degree.

Qualifications Requirements

• MS or Ph.D. in Computer Science OR equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of experience engineering search applications.
• Deep experience in search technologies with an emphasis on SOLR.
• Experience with recommendation systems, data mining, and relevance evaluation methodologies.
• Experience with real-time and/or distributed systems, and scalability of such systems.
• Experience with object-oriented design, data modeling, algorithms, data structures, and optimization.

NewsCred is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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