[dcphp-dev] [job] Sponsorship Product Developer at NPR

We are hiring!  

If interested, please apply on the NPR.org career site

What we are looking for:

• Creativity, initiative, thirst for innovation and acute attention to detail
• Vigor for crafting well-tested, well-documented and elegantly structured code.
• Passion for standards-based web development and polyglot programming.
• Understanding of the digital advertising space and its challenges.
• Obsession with software scalability and performance under high loads.
• Love for using and contributing to open-source software.
• Honesty, friendly attitude and good sense of humor.

We are looking for a talented and knowledgeable web developer to help us build sponsorship products that live up to the high standards of NPR's digital efforts.  A person passionate about polyglot programming, web technologies, database development, RESTful APIs; often things that have not reached mainstream, yet. We are looking for a person who both learns fast, but can also figure things out independently and show us better ways for building complex, highly scalable systems on the web.  

We are working to create a suite of new sponsorship products that bring value to the sponsor and to the user.  We need a web developer to help us find innovative ways to recognize the corporate sponsors that help keep NPR going.  

This position is primarily responsible for contributing to the creation, modification, and implementation of custom sponsorship products within NPR Digital Media and National Public Media.  You will often be collaborating with the other NPR web developers to determine the best course for incorporating sponsorship into new Digital Media products.  Responsibilities also include assisting in the creation of prototypes for sales demonstrations and maintenance support for existing sponsorship products.

Why work at NPR matters:  

A thriving, mission-driven multimedia organization, NPR produces award-winning news, information, and music programming in partnership with hundreds of independent public radio stations across the nation. NPR listeners value information, creativity, curiosity, and social responsibility – our employees do too. We are innovators and leaders in diverse fields, from journalism and digital media to product design and software engineering. Every day our employees and member stations touch the lives of millions worldwide.

 

Basic skills required:

• Fluency in HTML5/CSS3, including media queries and Responsive Web Design techniques.
• Fluency in writing functional Javascript code, not limited to jQuery programming.
• Fluency in LAMP stack: Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP.
• Extensive experience working with content-management systems.
• Experience working with ad servers (DFP Premium)
• Ability to work in Unix command-line over SSH terminal. Experience working with a version control system (SVN or Git preferred).

Bonus Points for:

• Every additional programming language and framework you are fluent in.
• Significant contributions to open-source projects Mad Node.js skills
• Addiction to writing code in Test-Driven Development style.

 

What else?

• We are a very Mac-friendly group, if that's your kind of thing.
• We are diverse, lifelong learners and read omnivorously from NPR's giveaway book shelf, regularly walk down the hall to Tiny Desk Concerts, tell coding jokes and edit bad grammar on milk cartons.
• We are a friendly bunch and expect the same from you, too

 

Does this sound like you? If so, we want to hear from you.

 

NPM offers a competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits package including health and wellness benefits, retirement, and work/life balance programs, as well as opportunities for career growth and development. NPM is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 

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