Full-stack - Web Developer

Salary Competitive

Are you angered at the state of the mainstream media? Would you like to hold them accountable? Want to reshape the way we consume and analyse media? Also, happen to be a kickass full-stack developer?


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Who are we?

Media Sifter is a newly founded social impact driven company, currently based in a startup incubator for design-driven companies, connected with Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design. We are a multi-disciplinary team following a human-centred design process. We believe in rapid prototyping and constant feedback loops from real people.


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Who are we looking for?

A passionate and experienced Lead full-stack web developer that wants to disrupt and rebuild the way we consume media, and hold media accountable. Joining us in Copenhagen, You will become an integral part of the team and the company and help shape the future of both the company and our service.

This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to apply their skills in a mission-focused environment. You will be working closely with our design lead to implement and finalise the infrastructure and front-end of our service.


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Who are you?


We are looking for passionate, dedicated, and general self-motivating attitude to problem-solving.

Specifically, we are looking for someone with eye for detail, a critical mindset with just as many questions as answers.

an initiative is key if you need to be micro-managed this is not the role for you.


If the web is your platform of choice and you want to build an amazing product together with a passionate team. we would love to hear from you. As a developer at Media Sifter, you can pride yourself with building a product that people love to use and probably also have fun while doing it.


Some of the things we look for


1 - A strong theoretical foundation from studying computer science, engineering or similar.

2 - Experience with modern web frameworks such as Rails, Phoenix, Django, Express or similar.

3 - Experience in architecting and implementing elegant technical backend solutions

4 - Experience or curiosity with machine learning, neural networks, and natural language processing and web crawling

5 - Experience with Ruby, Python, Elixir or Java, and an interest in system architecture, caching techniques, REST APIs and data modelling.

6 - Experience with both vanilla JavaScript and JavaScript frameworks such as Ember, Angular, or React.

7 - Obviously king of HTML5, Bootstrap and CSS3

8 - Strong experience with NoSQL databases

9 - Familiarity PHP and as a bonus Zend framework

10 - Familiarity with Git .


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What do you get in return?


- Healthy financial compensation

- To work on a platform and the can have a positive impact on the world

- Potential co-foundership (dependent on dedication)

- Interesting set subset of potential technologies to play with

- A hell of a challenge, but a fun one at that



Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Flexible working hours
Flexible working hours

Time is precious. Make it count. Morning person or night owl, this job is for you.

Free coffee / tea
Free coffee / tea

Get your caffeine fix to get you started and keep you going.

Near public transit
Near public transit

Easy access and treehugger friendly workplace.

Social gatherings
Social gatherings

Social gatherings and games; hang out with your colleagues.

Working at
Media Sifter

__Media SifterNews Aggregation, Crowd-Verified--Media Sifter is a news aggregator that utilises the crowd to verify content.Today's media landscape is noisy, biased and often inaccurate and rewards clicks rather than quality.We want to empower users to navigate through noise and bias and consume factual news. The network uses the wisdom of the crowd to verify claims in the aggregator and rewards evidence and contribution.--Find out more and join on mediasifter.co

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