The Company:

Bloomberg, the global business and financial information and news leader, gives influential decision makers a critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. The company¿s strength¿delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and accurately¿is at the core of the Bloomberg Professional service, which provides real time financial information to more than 300,000 subscribers globally. Bloomberg¿s enterprise solutions build on the company¿s core strength, leveraging technology to allow customers to access, integrate, distribute and manage data and information across organizations more efficiently and effectively. Through Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Government and Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the company provides data, news and analytics to decision makers in industries beyond finance. And Bloomberg News, delivered through the Bloomberg Professional service, television, radio, mobile, the Internet and two magazines, Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg Markets, covers the world with more than 2,300 news and multimedia professionals at 146 bureaus in 72 countries. Headquartered in New York, Bloomberg employs more than 13,000 people in 185 locations around the world.

Named as one of the ¿Most Innovative Companies in Sports¿ in 2011 by Fast Company Magazine, Bloomberg Sports takes the technology developed by Bloomberg, the leading global provider in data and analytics, and applies them to the vast data analysis opportunities in sports. Working with MLB.com and NFL.com since its launch in 2010, Bloomberg Sports fantasy products give fans the most powerful, easy-to-use resources as they draft and manage their fantasy teams.

Additionally, Bloomberg Sports is at the cutting edge of analytic development and implementation for professional teams by providing a comprehensive, integrated data system for all scouting, player development, and player evaluation operations. Bloomberg's first foray into professional sports has been in baseball, where the company now provides its analytical technology for almost all of the clubs in Major League Baseball, a tablet application for a large portion of players, and player evaluation tools for several professional baseball organizations in Latin America. They have also developed analytic tools for broadcast, some of which were featured during the 2011 MLB Postseason on Fox and TNT, as well as digital content for partners that include USA Today and others. Bloomberg Sports is now developing professional and consumer products for other major sports, both domestically and internationally.

The Role:

Are you looking to combine your passion for sports with a career in software development? Join the elite team of developers at Bloomberg Sports working on web applications that are bringing cutting edge analytics to the professional and consumer markets in the sports industry across web and mobile platforms. We are looking for a junior web developer with a get-it-done attitude to help us develop tools for MLB, NFL and to expand into other major international sports. A successful candidate will work with state of the art web and mobile technologies on projects that touch all areas of our applications from the UI to the low-level analytics. In addition to a good grasp of technology, important attributes include excellent communication skills, a passion for sports, and the drive to help grow our company into the leader in sports analytics worldwide.

Qualifications:

• Technical: HTML5; Ruby on Rails; JavaScript; jQuery; SQL; C++; Java; Mobile development is an asset
• Passionate about Sports
• Advanced problem solving skills
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Self-motivated and detail-oriented with a desire to design and develop sports-related software applications
• A background in statistics is an asset