Full-stack Software Developer

Salary Competitive

issuu is the world's fastest-growing digital publishing platform. We are looking for a new member to join our fantastic team. With great people, unique ideas and stunning technology, we're changing the future of publishing today. Can you be the best at what you do? Join us!


As a full-stack Software Developer, you will join a team of highly skilled developers, designers, and product owners.

  • First and foremost, we enjoy delivering results that create value for the end users, while we ensure a high-performance, high-availability, robust product that scale with our traffic (10.000++ requests/second ) and data-heavy platforms (100++ terabytes).
  • We enjoy to work across disciplines, and take a holistic, end-2-end approach to software development.
  • We enjoy to be at the forefront of development practices, Agile, Continuous Delivery, Software as Service, Cloud-based, Docker, React, but we’re not completely buzzword compliant - We also like to take the proven approach like MySQL.  

A lot of the work is done back-end side, but you will also need to be comfortable with creating javascript-based (ES6, React) front-end code that can run in production. In short, we expect you to be involved in all aspects of issuu's infrastructure and operations.

Our daily work involves solving problems from just about every area of computer science, including search, information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, big data and so on. 

Our back-end infrastructure is developed in a range of programming languages depending on the task at hand. We use mainly Python, Ocaml and Erlang, using imperative as well as functional paradigms. Our services are built on Amazon's scalable infrastructure (EC2, S3, RDS, etc.). 

Qualifications 

  • Demonstrated ability to deliver results in a fast-paced environment as a self-starter and quick learner
  • Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science or a related field
  • Experience designing and building robust, high-volume production web applications
  • Ability to participate in architecture design and create prototypes quickly
  • Strong competencies in data structures, algorithms and software design
  • Proficient knowledge of Unix/Linux
  • Solid communication skills in English
  • Experience with Python
  • Experience with relational databases
  • Experience with Erlang, OCaml or other functional programming languages is a plus
  • Experience with Amazon Infrastructure services is a plus


What We Offer

  • You’ll be a part of issuu – an amazing place with room for parents, foodies, geeks, odd birds and the occasional normal person
  • Informal, inclusive and very flexible workplace
  • Competitive compensation package
  • Flat hierarchy – every opinion matters regardless of team and position
  • Regular hackathons
  • A sleek Mac and a pretty sweet desk setup
  • Great offices in Copenhagen, Palo Alto and Berlin


About the Team and Office

You will be joining our DK engineering team in Copenhagen consisting of approx. 22 developers. We are a diverse office with members of all parts of issuu, including Customer Support, Product, Design, Data Analytics and Management.

In a company the size of issuu, code maintainability is just as important as site accessibility. That also means that you are willing to share your code with other people or sit together for pair programming sessions.

Our office is conveniently located next to the Copenhagen Central Station. We provide nice, catered lunches each day, regular outings and monthly Friday bars with drinks, snacks and activities. 


About issuu

issuu connects the world’s publishers to an audience of active consumers, on a global scale. Every day millions of people find, read and share billions of pieces of content they find meaningful, from every device. Millions of magazine, newspaper and catalog creators are empowered to distribute, measure and monetize their work through the issuu platform issuu.com. 

If you are interested in a sneak peek of who we are as issuuees, have a look at our brandbook. 

Details 

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Flexible working hours
Flexible working hours

Free coffee / tea
Free coffee / tea

Near public transit
Near public transit

Social gatherings
Social gatherings

Pension plan
Pension plan

Free friday beers
Free friday beers

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Working at
ISSUU

Issuu is a massive omni channel digital publishing platform and cloud service that, through the Issuu Story Cloud, enables marketers, brands and creators globally to digitally create, share and monetize brochures, content marketing materials, publications, look books, catalogs and more across all screens and formats. The Issuu Story Cloud, which includes integrations with Adobe Indesign, Google AMP, Dropbox, Google Drive and others and is a content sharing and distribution service that sits between Creative Cloud and Marketing Cloud products. With the Story Cloud, we enable marketers and brands to create once and share everywhere digitally. Issuu has massive scale with more than 1 million marketers, brands and creators leveraging the platform annually and more than 100 million uniques consuming content monthly. Our Copenhagen office is conveniently close to the center in the heart of Vesterbro. It has a friendly, creative and welcoming atmosphere in a cool office environment, additionally with a music room, table tennis, and old-school arcade games. We provide delicious catered lunches, breakfast every Friday, as well as healthy drinks and snacks, and also organise regular outings, meetup events, and hackathons.

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