Front End Developer

  • Full-time

Company Description

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.

Job Description

NewsCred is looking for a Front End Developer with great well-rounded technical skills and a talent for building awesome web applications. This engineer will work on building out the next generation of world class cutting edge applications as a part of NewsCred’s exceptional engineering team. As a Front End Developer at NewsCred, you will specialize in building responsive and elegant web UIs.


You will play a key role in helping build next-generation web applications for our clients.

The engineer will be responsible for participating and/or leading technical design discussions, implementing new features and products, working with UX designers, researching and evaluating new technology, and maintaining a well-tested and high quality software codebase. Team players who succeed at NewsCred are intelligent, highly motivated, fearless individuals with a great sense of humor. They are proven self-starters and quick learners. You should have great communication skills, and be able to work closely with our User Experience team to build beautifully designed UIs that are rich and user-friendly.


Key Responsibilities

  • Build next-generation web applications with a focus on the client side.

  • Redesign UI's, Implement new UI's, and pick up Python as necessary.

  • Engage with back-end systems.

Qualifications

Preferred qualifications

  • Working on high-touch, high-visibility, high-performance, highly scalable enterprise applications; client facing apps involving campaign management, workflow, analytics, audience design, etc.

  • Experimenting with new ways of visualizing large amounts of data.

  • Having a keen sense for visual design and information architecture.

  • Passionate about web based applications.

  • Solid understanding of basic UX principles and what makes a great user experience.

  • Comfortable tackling engineering problems that can't be solved with cookbook techniques.

Minimum qualifications

  • BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.  

  • 3 years relevant work experience.

  • Significant development experience in Python, Angular.js Node.js, and Backbone.js.

  • Experience with Django, MySQL, MongoDB, and Puppet.

Additional Information

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