NewsCred is looking for Software Engineer 2020 in Dhaka.
NewsCred, the world’s leading enterprise content marketing company, is on a mission to create software that transforms how marketing teams work.
NewsCred is a three-time Gartner Magic Quadrant leader and a regular Great Place to Work. Every day, across their New York, London, and Dhaka offices, nearly 200 brilliant NewsCred employees commit their passion, time, and energy to shaping the future of an industry.
Position Overview
Whether you’re:
- improving their search infrastructure using the latest techniques in information retrieval and natural language processing, or
- evaluating terabytes of usage logs to discover what content performs best for their customers, or
- building a revolutionary content consumption UX
You will play a key role in all parts of the product lifecycle: brainstorming, design, prototyping, planning, implementation, and launch.
People who succeed at NewsCred are intelligent, highly motivated, empathetic team players with a great sense of humor. They are proven self-starters, and quick learners. You will write lots of code that solve both visual and technical hurdles, delivering high impact solutions to their customers around the world.
The Stack
They are agnostic about technology stacks and programming languages, but in case you are interested, here is the tech stack that they currently use:
- Python, Django, Flask, Celery
- JavaScript, NodeJS, AngularJS, ReactJS, TypeScript
- MySQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ
- Redis, Elasticsearch, Apache Spark
- Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Jenkins, ELK, Grafana
- Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud
The Team
The engineering team consists of some of the most brilliant, considerate, and fun-loving people you’ll ever meet. They implement a flat organizational structure providing all engineers the same designation to make the teams more efficient and responsive to change. They’re highly selective; they seek people who can contribute and share in the success and happiness of their team. They organize themselves into small close-knit teams that work with agility and perseverance to achieve bigger goals. This allows them to maintain our scrappy, entrepreneurial culture as they grow.
Location:
DhakaBenefits
Why You’ll Love Working There
- Their culture is the most important thing they offer: a place to do your best work and a chance for your voice to be heard in a democratic environment as they shape a high-growth space.
- All-hands Demo Days on Wednesdays
- Communal transport facilities inside Dhaka
- Free catered lunch
- Best-in-class compensation plans
- Unlimited vacation days
- Two annual festival bonuses
- Medical insurance
- A light but frequent agile performance review process, to encourage ongoing transparency between managers and direct reports
- Training and development.
Eligibilities
NewsCred is looking for Software Engineers with a minimum of 2 years’ experience. They require you to have the technical skills and talent to navigate their entire stack, solving interesting and diverse problems along the way.
About You
You love creating software in a collaborative and close-knit team that is beautifully crafted, highly impactful while being obsessive about their customers’ success. You’re curious about the latest emerging technologies and love thinking about ways in which they can apply them to make their product better.
Qualification and Requirements
- Strong problem solving and coding skills are essential
- Good English communication skills (ability to communicate technical stats)
- Development experience in any of the following: Python, Django, AngularJS, NodeJS
- Optimises database for high availability and better query performance
- Designing and developing highly available and scalable backend systems
- Closely working with DevOps and Business Intelligence team to improve system services, DevOps tasks, setting up automation, monitoring and generating reporting as well
- Experience with software engineering best practices (unit testing, code reviews, clean code)
- Experience with REST, SOA, microservices-based architecture is a plus
- Experience with distributed systems, non-relational database, and search engines is a plus
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment
- Experience with automated testing and continuous deployment
- Experience with working with teams across offshore offices is an added advantage
- Able to accommodate New York meeting times.
