Senior Web Developer - News Apps

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New York, NY

Posted Feb 8, 2016 - Requisition No. 48736

The Role:

Join the Bloomberg Graphics Engineering team as a News App Developer where you will join a small, dynamic team supporting the Graphics news team. In this role you will:

  • Empower the newsroom by developing tools for content creators that enrich their stories with data.
  • Promote efficiency and quality on the news graphics and features teams by developing libraries and standards.
  • Work with consumer and professional product development teams to integrate visualizations throughout Bloomberg's mobile, web, terminal, and syndicated offerings.
  • Manage and build out infrastructure to deliver graphics to our readers.

Qualifications:

Candidates must have a minimum of 3 years of experience developing web applications or services and have exposure to much of the following:

  • Ruby and Node.js
  • Build tools and configuration (e.g. npm, gulp)
  • Deployment and automation
  • Cloud/Virtualization (e.g. AWS)
  • Server configuration (apache, haproxy)
  • Library development
  • Browser performance and optimizations
  • Responsive design
  • HTML5 and CSS
  • D3
  • Conversant in charting/visualization

Highly desirable skills include:

  • SVG, Canvas
  • WebGL, three.js
  • Mapping, TopoJSON

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 315,000 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, Bloomberg New Energy Finance and Bloomberg BNA, 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 three magazines, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets and Bloomberg Pursuits, covers the world with more than 2,400 news and multimedia professionals at more than 150 bureaus in 73 countries. Headquartered in New York, Bloomberg employs more than 15,000 people in 192 locations around the world.

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