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, Dhaka, London and is backed by FirstMark 
Capital, Mayfield Fund, IA Ventures, Greycroft Partners and others. 

Overview

NewsCred is looking to hire senior 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

• 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;
• Establish modern engineering processes that deliver quality software on time and on budget by implementing agile methodologies and continuous delivery;
• Line manage engineers.

• 6+ years of experience in software development;
• The ideal candidate should have previous experience line-managing engineers;
• Strong problem solving and coding skills are essential;
• Impeccable English communication skills (ability to communicate technical stats with our colleagues in New York);
• Interest in full stack programming is preferred;
• Experience with software engineering best practices (unit testing, code reviews, clean code);
• Experience with working with teams across offshore offices is an added advantage;
• Experience with REST, SOA, microservices based architecture is a plus;
• Experience with distributed systems, search engines is a plus;
• Experience with non-relational database is a plus.

Don’t meet all the requirements? If you’re confident you can ramp up in 3-5 months, we’d love to meet you.

We are agnostic about technology stacks and programming languages, but in case you are interested, here is the tech stack that we currently use:

• Python, Django, Flask, Celery
• JavaScript. Node.js, Angular.js
• Scala
• MySQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Apache SOLR, Redis, Elasticsearch
• Ansible, Vagrant, Docker
• Amazon Web Service systems (EC2, S3, RDS, SQS, Elasticache)

Education

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

• 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.