\nPlease submit a cover letter, your resume, portfolio and (if applicable) GitHub profile.\n\nNPR’s News Apps/graphics team is looking for a civic-minded developer to join us to cover the 2024 elections. Our team works on data visualizations, information design, creative story presentations and custom tooling to help tell stories in the NPR newsroom. (You can see some of our past work on our team blog and GitHub sites.) This is a temporary position, starting as soon as possible and running through the end of 2024, and can be based at our Washington, D.C., headquarters or at a remote location in the U.S. approved by NPR.\n\nIn this role, you will have the opportunity to help our audience make sense of the elections, including key issues, results and analysis. Your biggest responsibilities will be to help design and build our results infrastructure for primary season and the general election, and to work on related stories and analysis. You will be assigned other projects as bandwidth permits.\n\nOn this team, you will have to work quickly in a dynamic environment. Members of our team wear many hats — designer, reporter, data wrangler, developer, cartographer, sysadmin, etc. Depending on your experience and the team’s needs, you’ll also utilize different skills day-to-day. And you’ll work closely with various journalists and storytelling units around the NPR organization and across our network of member stations, including photographers and video journalists, beat reporters and show producers, copy editors, digital editors and engagement editors.\n\nThis is a union represented role covered under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement with SAG-AFTRA.\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES\n\n\n* Set up and test our election results data pipeline (using data from the AP elections API and other sources) for primary elections and the November general election\n\n* Build user-facing election results displays for use on NPR.org and member station websites\n\n* Translate editorial goals into sustainable applications and infrastructure.\n\n* Work closely with individual story producers, editors and teammates to identify opportunities for visual storytelling, data visualization and/or analysis\n\n* Assess what work realistically can be executed in the time available and meet agreed-upon deadlines\n\n* Document your work for teammates, newsroom colleagues and/or external audiences, as relevant\n\n* Coach other team members, articulating story, design and code suggestions in a helpful and supportive way\n\n* Maintain and extend the team’s technical infrastructure and development best practices\n\n\n\n\nThe above duties and responsibilities are not an exhaustive list of required responsibilities, duties and skills. Other duties may be assigned, and this job description can be modified at any time.\n\nMINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS\n\nThree or more years of experience developing for the web in a news, civic or data-related context\n\nEDUCATION REQUIREMENT\n\nBachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.\n\nWORK LOCATION\n\nRemote Permitted: This is a remote permitted role. This role is based out of our Washington, DC office but the employee may choose to work on a remote basis from a location that NPR approves.\n\nREQUIRED SKILLS\n\n\n* Experience designing interactive or data-heavy projects with a static architecture\n\n* Experience with setting up servers, crons and server-side data processing workflows\n\n* Solid news judgment. You can think of software in terms of the information needs of the audience\n\n* Fluency in JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3, including responsive web design techniques.\n\n* Proven success implementing complex designs in HTML/CSS\n\n* Experience developing software projects using the Git version control system\n\n* Cultivate and promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace\n\n* Cultivate and support an inclusive and equitable workplace culture\n\n\n\n\nPREFERRED SKILLS\n\n\n* Experience with the AP elections API\n\n* Experience with Node, EJS and other elements of our technology stack.\n\n* Familiarity with Amazon Web Services and provisioning AWS resources using the console, CLI and API\n\n* Experience working iteratively and collaboratively (for example, using Agile or a similar project management process).\n\n* Experience using web components, including custom elements and shadow DOM, or other JavaScript component frameworks (such as React or Vue).\n\n* Experience with GIS/mapping software such as QGIS, Leaflet, topojson, mapshaper, or ESRI.\n\n* Familiarity with data analysis techniques, especially in command-line or scriptable environments like Jupyter Notebook, Pandas or numpy.\n\n\n\n\nJOB TYPE\n\nThis is a temporary full time position.\n\nCOMPENSATION\n\nHourly Rate: The U.S. based anticipated hourly rate for this opportunity is $46.87-57.69 plus benefits. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum hourly rate NPR expects to provide for new hires for the position across all US locations.\n\nBenefits: NPR offers access to comprehensive benefits for employees and dependents. Regular, full-time employees scheduled to work 30 hours or more per week are eligible to enroll in NPR’s benefits options. Benefits include access to health and wellness, paid time off, and financial well-being. Plan options include medical, dental, vision, life/ accidental death and dismemberment, long-term disability, short-term disability, and voluntary retirement savings to all eligible NPR employees. \n\nDoes this sound like you? If so, we want to hear from you. Please submit a cover letter, your resume, portfolio and (if applicable) GitHub profile. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, React, JavaScript, Video and API jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nWashington, District of Columbia, United States

*Our HQ is in Holmdel, NJ but open to Remote, US candidates \n\nThe Director of Real Green Software Engineering leads all software engineering activities for one of our flagship products in the Field Service Mgmt (FSM) Product Line that serves Lawn and Landscape customers.  In this highly-visible role, you will oversee all aspects of our software engineering process, from architecture, systems design, development, test and deployment.  You will report to the VP of Engineering for the FSM Product Line.\n \nWe are looking for a collaborative leader with great communications skills to understand our people, the business, the technologies we employ, the customer needs/demands and our collaborative, transparent WorkWave culture.  The engineering director will use that understanding to help develop our people, to identify and successfully implement improvements in our engineering processes, tools and architecture, to enable us to deliver on our key initiatives.  Although you will not be coding, as an engineering leader we will expect that you know the craft inside and out and still carry an engineer’s passion for designing and delivering great software solutions for our customers and establishing processes and metrics that improve our efficiency and quality.\n \nYou will be leading a number of functional development teams with Technical Leads responsible for Product Development, externally-facing API development, Sustaining, Tier 3 Support, Technology Evolution, and large-scale projects for key customers. Quality Engineering and Dev and Tech Ops are matrixed organizations in WorkWave - those functions are embedded with the product development teams and you are ultimately responsible for the overall deliverables.\n \nWe develop software using modern Agile development methods, but in the spirit of continuous improvement, we are always looking to improve our processes and welcome fresh views.\n\nA FEW WORDS FROM THE HIRING MANAGER:\n“This is a great opportunity for a passionate software manager who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment. Your job is to calmly deal with many competing priorities and fires and clear the way for our incredibly talented engineers. If you’re up for it, let’s talk!”\n\nA GLOBAL COMPANY WITH A LOCAL PRESENCE:\n • We know that there are benefits of being in the office and working from home.  WorkWave promotes a healthy work/life balance and provides employees with the flexibility of collaborating in the office or the option to work virtually if desired.  \n• We have employees in over 30 states, 7 countries and many regional offices - each with their own set of perks and opportunities to give back to the local community.  \n• Whether you work remotely or take advantage of one of our offices, you’ll find a community of WorkWavers that value diversity, and care deeply about our products, clients, our communities and each other.\n\nLOVE WHAT YOU DO, NO MATTER WHERE YOU DO IT: \n• Our HQ is based at our state of the art home office in the historic Bell Works complex located in Holmdel Township, New Jersey\n• With everything you could find in a great downtown -- from restaurants and retail to art and culture the Bell Works “Metroburb” is a microcosm of innovation, possibility, and inspiration and WorkWave is proud to be a part of it\n• Pharmacy, urgent care, bank, restaurants, florist, gym, dentist, outdoor patio bar and weekly farmers market all conveniently located on the first floor - making running errands on a break a breeze.\n• We work hard but play hard too...need a break? When in the office kick back in our common area, play a game of arcade basketball, video games in our game rooms or face off in a ping pong match\n• WORKING REMOTE? Great! Our teams are well versed at working collaboratively in a fully virtual environment.  We keep our offices available to all to use when working remotely isn’t feasible, or to help with cross training, team building and/or brainstorming.  \n \nRELAX, WE'VE GOT YOU COVERED: \n• Employees can expect a robust benefits package, including health and dental, generous paid time off and 401k with company match\nAND BEYOND...\n• Tuition reimbursement\n• Robust Employee Assistance Program through TotalCare offering free counseling 24/7/365, plus financial counseling, legal guidance, adoption assistance services and much more!\n• 24/7 access to virtual medical care with Teladoc\n• Floating time off for holidays and/or your birthday\n• Quarterly awards based on peer nominations\n• Regional discounts and perks\n• Opportunities to participate in charitable events and give back to the community \n \nGROW WITH US: \n• We understand the impact of attracting and keeping top talent and reward intellectual curiosity and a thirst for personal and professional growth\n• Encouraging our employees that already have an intimate knowledge of and passion for our products to apply for other roles within our walls just makes sense!\n• Our employees have access to extensive video libraries for soft skill and role specific training available 24/7 and live trainings are provided throughout the year \n \nJOIN OUR WINNING TEAM! \n• 9 Time winner of Best Place to Work in New Jersey by NJBiz !\n• WorkWave has been recognized with multiple awards for its outstanding products, growth and culture, including the Inc. 5000, SaaS Award, IT World Awards, Globe Awards, Silver Stevie Award for Employer of the Year, and Best Place to Work Inc. Magazine \n \nWe’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Video, API, Legal, SaaS and Medical jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nHolmdel, NJ