Upcoming (www.upcoming.nl) - Amsterdam, The Netherlands (No remote, but we'll relocate you) - Full Stack Software Engineer
===== About us =====
Upcoming is a Dutch 'listicle' website (a listicle is an article consisting of a list of funny/informational/sentimental/whatever stuff). We've been growing continuously since we launched last year, already reaching 10% of the Dutch population with zero € spent on marketing. We’re (an independent) part of Telegraaf Media Groep, one of the biggest publishers of The Netherlands.
===== Abour our tech stack =====
We use python in the backend (Flask, Celery+RabbitMQ), and manage the frontend with Jinja2, jQuery, LESS and Grunt; persistence is done with MySQL and Redis. The deployments are automated, in a Continuous Integration environment.
Our backend is developed in-house, with state-of-the-art publishing related features such as:
- Monitoring of 1000's of rss feeds from news websites, in order to detect trending articles all around the globe.
- Advanced analysis of our own articles' metrics, for automatically promoting them among our publication channels (this is aimed at maximizing virality).
- (Bayesian) Headline and thumbnail A/B testing
- Highly scalable click-through-rate optimizer, presented in a workshop of the ACM Recommender Systems conference in Hong Kong last year.
Since we're part of a big media group, some of these tools are now being used by other teams, reaching tens of millions of users every day.
===== What we're looking for =====
- CS degree and/or relevant web experience
- Ideally, someone who has spent some time across the whole stack, but we will consider people who consider themselves “just” a frontend or backend developer.
- Pragmatism
- Python experience not mandatory - just show us that you’d be willing to learn and that you’re smart :)
===== What we offer =====
- A perfect balance between working on innovation projects and “regular” web development, both with short and iterative development cycles.
- The flexibility and dynamism of working in a startup, with the strong stability of being part of a big company.
- An international environment, with people from all over the world (UK, Italy, Romania, Argentina, Brazil, Iran, and more)
- Thorough relocation assistance, regardless of where you’re coming from
- A competitive salary
- 25 vacation days
- Amsterdam! You’ll be living in one of the most beautiful and cosmopolitan cities in the world.
If you’re interested, drop me a line: m.neustadt(at)tmg.nl
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