Web Developer

Newsela

(New York, New York)

Full Time

Job Posting Details

About Newsela

Newsela unlocks the written word by publishing daily news articles at five reading levels to engage students in grades 2-12 in high-interest topics from immigration and diplomacy to drones and animal extinction. Launched in 2013, more than 37 million Newsela articles have been read by students, making Newsela the number 1 online news source for students.

Summary

Web Developers at Newsela work on big problems in literacy education, from building the infrastructure necessary to handle tens of millions of users to solving novel problems in computational linguistics. Developers work with great designers and domain experts to build software that’s beautiful as well as functional. Our team is passionate about our mission to unlock the written word for everyone, and we would love for you to join us.

Responsibilities

Write thoughtful, literate code independently and with the support of technical leadership.
Work on an interdisciplinary team to translate high-level project goals into concrete tasks.
Bring technical expertise and creativity to your own projects and the work of Newsela as a whole.
Handle sometimes competing priorities through good time management and communication.

Ideal Candidate

Demonstrated expertise in core languages: Python and JavaScript.
Over 3 years of professional web development experience.
Demonstrated contributions to complex, high-traffic web applications.
Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with other developers in a distributed version control system.
Proven ability to work with minimal supervision.

Some Plusses

Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline.
Experience working in education.
Startup-savvy and an entrepreneurial spirit.
An eye for design.
Strong expertise in any of the following areas:
- computational linguistics;
- front-end development, especially AngularJS;
- mobile development, including iOS, Android or responsive design;
- operations, including AWS, dev-ops or data engineering;
- data science, including machine learning, statistics or data visualization.