Newsroom Application Developer

Job Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the creation of newsroom tools that improve our journalism
• Contribute to the creation of digital stories and features that explore new forms of storytelling
• Collaborate with visual journalists, editors and our product, design and engineering teams to generate ideas
• Work with our analytics teams to pull together reports on various projects as needed
• Assist with maintenance and improvement of existing editorial tools
• Assist with graphics projects that require engineering rigor

Skills:

• A minimum of 3-5 years of related work experience in a media-rich digital environment is desirable
• Expertise in HTML, CSS and JavaScript, including back-end languages like Node.js and PHP
• Experience with Express.js, React, State Management Frameworks, Webpack and Gulp
• Experience with user analytics and testing
• Experience with building APIs and web services
• Knowledge of cross-device and mobile development
• Familiarity with producing wireframes with a good understanding of UX/UI design
• Able to work quickly and efficiently under tight deadlines
• Able to help reporters and editors learn new skills that will contribute to their interactive storytelling
• The initiative to take on and learn new tasks in a fast-moving environment
• Excellent communication skills

Education/Experience:

• No specific qualification required.