Javascript Developer Data Visualization (Soho)

Feb. 22, 2012

New York, NY

Confidential

Overview:

New York Public Radio seeks a front-end developer with proven JavaScript skills, an interest in design and UI and a passion for news, data, public media, new technology and crowd-sourced journalism.

This position intersects with the newsroom and NYPR's digital media group. You will work hand-in-hand with reporters, producers and editors for WNYC News, The Brian Lehrer Show, It's A Free Country, New Jersey Public Radio and other news/information services. Under the daily supervision of the Editor of Data News you will build news visualizations and interactives. Reporting to the Director of Digital Technology, you will be a member of an agile team of programmers working on longer-term projects related to data-news gathering and NYPR's digital experience.

Responsibilities:

Participate in conceiving data news visualizations and applications

Build the front end of those data news visualizations and applications

Develop interfaces for the web and mobile apps based on graphic designs

Assist with ongoing developments to improve WNYC's journalism technologies, including building data tools for journalists

Work closely with NYPR's developers and digital teams to follow NYPR's best practices and ensure integration across systems

Write and maintain technical documentation on applications, processes and workflow

Engage in local and open-source communities for JavaScript/HTML development

Maintain awareness of industry trends in technology, data news and media to inform design, content, community, user interfaces and information architecture

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree and three years professional experience in software development

Excellent object-oriented JavaScript programming skills

HTML5, XML, HTML, CSS, JSON fluency

Knowledge of Web 2.0 technologies including AJAX, social networking, and mobile interfaces

Ability to perform cross-browser testing and debugging

Experience working in a newsroom or public-facing media organization with an ability to work

efficiently under fast-breaking deadline conditions and juggle multiple priorities

Ability and eagerness to teach yourself new skills with minimal hand-holding

Ability to work extended hours as needed, including some evenings and weekends, and to be on-call

for emergencies required

Confidence working in an environment with a strong, passionate and fast-paced team

Must be highly motivated, organized, flexible and proactive, and have strong time and project

management skills

Work on other special projects and duties as assigned

Pluses:

Open-source project participation

A public github/gitorious/launchpad/etc. portfolio

Back-end Rails, Node.js or Django/Python skills

Experience scraping web data or using public APIs to gather data to analyze

All positions at NYPR require:

The intellectual and emotional depth, maturity, self-confidence and interpersonal skills to work effectively with the senior leadership team, colleagues, staff and external partners and provide motivation at all levels of an organization

Excellent communication skills--both oral and written--with an impressive reputation for building and maintaining relationships with people at all levels of an organization, across a diverse range of cultural, generational, ethnic, racial, educational and social backgrounds

Use of a computer, telephone and other office and/or broadcast equipment; ability to communicate effectively through a variety of methods including but not limited to; Microsoft Office software, internet based applications for internal and external communications

Affinity for New York Public Radio; WNYC and/or WQXR content and mission a plus

Note: The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees, and are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of the employer.

New York Public Radio is an Equal Opportunity Employer and invites and encourages qualified applicants from all walks of life.

Please submit cover letter with salary requirements and resume. Also for this role, provide any github or other code portfolio links. New York Public Radio must receive all information requested in order to consider your candidacy.

Click on the link to see a more detailed position specification and to Apply: www.wnyc.org/careers. Please submit cover letter with salary requirements and resume. We must receive all information requested in order to consider your candidacy. We do not accept or pay a fee for unsolicited resumes from third-parties. New York Public Radio is an Equal Opportunity Employer and invites and encourages qualified applicants from all walks of life.

COMPANY PROFILE -- ABOUT NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO

"To make the mind more curious, the heart more open and the spirit more joyful." - New York Public Radio Mission Statement

New York Public Radio is home to three of the country's leading public radio stations--WNYC 93.9 FM, WNYC AM 820, and WQXR 105.9 FM--as well as the Jerome L. Greene Performance Space. As America's most listened-to public radio stations* and New York's premier multi-platform public radio franchise, it collectively reaches a monthly audience of more than11.5 million.

WNYC and wnyc.org: WNYC is a major producer of original, award-winning local and national content. It originates for public radio nationwide programs and podcasts like Radiolab, The Takeaway, Freakonomics, On The Media and Studio 360. WNYC maintains a centralized newsroom and its award-winning reporters contribute regularly to online and local news broadcasts and to the nationally-distributed news programs Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Marketplace and The Takeaway. Also, WNYC produces the signature daily programs The Brian Lehrer Show, The Leonard Lopate Show, Soundcheck and New Sounds. Five WNYC programs -- Radiolab, On the Media, Studio 360, The Brian Lehrer Show, and Radio Rookies, its youth journalism program serving teens in all five boroughs, have been recognized with George Foster Peabody Awards, the highest honor in broadcasting journalism. WNYC's original content is available to people wherever they are via mobile platforms, online audio streams, podcasts and social media. In addition, WNYC presents the best national offerings from networks National Public Radio, Public Radio International, American Public Media, and the British Broadcasting Company, broadcasting a wide range of daily news, talk, cultural and music programming.

WQXR and wqxr.org: Classical 105.9 WQXR is New York City's sole classical music station, presenting new and landmark classical recordings as well as live concerts from the Carnegie Hall, Metropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonic, among other New York City venues, immersing listeners in the city's rich musical life. WQXR.org also hosts Q2, an HD broadcast and web stream dedicated to discovery, giving listeners an opportunity to experience exceptional music, classic and contemporary, that they likely have not heard before. WQXR's smart, engaging hosts provide distinctive context for the music they love to play. And wqxr.org serves the global classical music community through online listening, playlists, host blogs and New York City cultural news. WQXR also offers Metropolitan Opera Radio Saturday Matinee Broadcasts, The Philharmonic This Week, McGraw Hill Young Artists Showcase evenings, and Symphony Hall.

The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space and thegreenespace.org: Our street-front broadcast studio and performance venue produces a full season of original programming -- as well as WNYC and WQXR shows, concerts and events -- for live, radio and online audiences. It is becoming an anchor in our growing, exciting Hudson Square neighborhood in lower Manhattan.

(*Source: Arbitron)