THE COMPANY

NewsCred is the leading content marketing platform. Pairing cutting-edge 

software with world-class content, we transform brands into storytellers.
NewsCred's Content Marketing Cloud© 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 4,000 publishers and 
original content from our award-winning journalist network.

Through NewsCred, global brands like Pepsi, P&G, Dell, General Electric 
and AIG have seen explosive growth in social sharing, engagement and 
lead generation.

Founded in 2008 by Shafqat Islam, Iraj Islam and Asif Rahman, NewsCred
has offices in New York, London and Dhaka and is backed by FirstMark 
Capital, Mayfield Fund, IA Ventures, Greycroft Partners and others. 

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

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

• Participate in the organization and planning of the development schedule based on established team methodology to create a cohesive plan with identifiable critical path, task dependencies, and major milestones;

• Manage iteration plans and schedules, ensuring successful completion within scope, budget, time, and quality parameters;

• Adapt plans, schedules, and resource assignments as required throughout software development sprints and releases to respond to emerging requirements and risks;

• Organize and facilitate sprint and release planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, demos and other Scrum-related meetings as needed

• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress

• Ensure the development teams practice the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility

• Employ agile project tracking tools to provide transparency on Product & Sprint Backlogs

• Recommend improvements and assist in changes to best practice

• Assist with communication, improving transparency, and radiating information

• Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition

• Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal

• Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution; empower the teams to self-organize; improve the productivity of the teams in any way possible

• Ensure the team strives to make each increment of functionality potentially shippable

• Guide team to adhere to agile based standards, tools and best practices and maintain process documentation

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.

Qualification Requirements

• 2 years of minimum scrum master experience.

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

• Strong problem solving and coding skills is essential;

• Fluency in spoken and written English is essential;

• Passion to learn and adopt new technical skills;

• Scrum alliance certification, preferred.

• Experience with Git is preferable.

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