Senior Web Developer - News Apps

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.

Join the Bloomberg Graphics R&D team as a News App Developer where you will join a small, dynamic team supporting the Graphics news team.

• 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