Senior Developer, Interactive Applications
Gannett Digital’s Interactive Applications team has an immediate opening for a senior developer to build data-driven interactives and tools. Our team of data journalists, designers and front-end developers builds apps that serve all of Gannett’s properties, including USA TODAY and more than 80 community newspapers and 36 television stations. You’ll be building interactive applications that visualize data and tell news stories in unique ways, working with some of the nation’s top journalists.
Our work ranges from interactive maps to complex data visualizations. We develop for mobile, tablet and desktop using a variety of open source and proprietary tools, APIs and data sets. We work in a fast-paced, collaborative, creative and fun environment where your ideas and ability to find unique solutions will make a difference in the lives of millions of readers and viewers.
The senior developer has demonstrated the ability to work successfully and with little guidance within a defined system and has taken proactive steps to improve the system at increasingly higher levels conceptually and in practice. They implement activities that generally impact important components of a project or the overall framework. A senior has worked at length in the industry and as a result has acquired knowledge only experience and exposure can provide. A senior demonstrates attention to detail and thorough testing in all scenarios. A senior takes pains to write efficient, readable, maintainable code and has general awareness of the impact their code has beyond simply “making it work.” The senior works to stay abreast of new trends and technologies and incorporates them into their own work and makes suggestions for improving the framework.
Responsibilities:
- Design and build interactive, data-driven applications and tools
- Collaborate with team on data acquisition, quality assessment, functional design
- Identify high-level issues and work with principal developer on solution
- Identify lower- and mid-level issues and find or develop appropriate solutions
- Lead or co-lead medium-impact projects
- Perform initial review on high-risk changes
- Review and merge low-risk changes
- Develop understanding of most elements of the framework
- Mentor developers
- Document one’s own code both inline and more accessibly in the wiki
- Develop new medium- and high-impact innovation projects