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We build the platforms that help comms teams see around corners. Expect practical engineering lessons, data pipelines at scale, and product thinking from the people behind Meltwater.

Meet Meltwater at the BME Job Fair

Meet us at booth 059 at the BME Job Fair of Technical University of Budapest on March 6-7! Meltwater is hiring the best of the best for the Budapest office. We are seeking talented fresh graduates and experienced professionals for a number of positons: Software Engineer for the Content Services and Enrichment...

All the way from Ideation to Production

It is a unique and gratifying experience to start a new major component of an already established product, and to bring it all the way from the blackboard until it eventually goes to production. Before Meltwater, I developed prototypes, which proved concepts and inspired features. I also fixed bugs and added features...

Developer Spotlight: Deyan Yotsov

Developer Spotlight

Today we are putting the developer spotlight on Deyan, Senior Software Engineer for our Content Services team in Budapest, Hungary. Before Meltwater I am from Varna, a Bulgarian town at the Black Sea coast, whose forest covered beaches I am destined to miss wherever I go. Driven by my first passion, I...

The NLP Search System of Meltwater Press

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At the end of 2012 I joined the Engineering team of Meltwater Press (mPress), to start working on my master thesis on the mPress NLP search system. The title of the thesis is “Qualitative analysis for detecting shifts in system requirements of search systems”, and I am performing it under the supervision...

Developer Spotlight: Naji Adnan

Developer Spotlight

Today we are putting the developer spotlight on Naji, Support Engineer for Meltwater News in Berlin, Germany. History in Meltwater My name is Naji and I am originally from Lebanon. I have been living in Germany since summer 2002. I never lived anywhere else but in Berlin and those who know Berlin,...

In the Developer Spotlight

Developer Spotlight

The Developer Spotlight is a new category on our blog. I offers you a keyhole view at the work of our developers, designers, support engineers, testers, operations engineers, Scrum masters, and all other people at Meltwater that bring our products to life. We are very proud of the people that work for...

It is Three Inches from Women to Asia

algorithms NLP

Recently I had an interesting problem to solve. Given a set of documents and the key phrases found in each document, the task is to display the key phrases on a map so that related phrases appear close to each other while unrelated ones are placed further apart. This should result in...

Work as a MEST Teaching Fellow

Want to live and work in Ghana for a year? Checkout the opportunities at MEST, Meltwater’s nonprofit organization in Accra, Ghana. I can highly recommend it! If you are interested in this topic, you may also want to read this post about my experience in Ghana on the Meltwater Careers Blog.

Developer Challenges – Lessons Learned

innovation

In 2011 I participated in the 1st ever Springer API Challenge. Here is what I learned about developer challenges in general and how they can be beneficial for both developers and companies. What is the Springer API Challenge? Springer is a publishing house with 5500 employees and a yearly revenue of 850...