\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

About Veho\n\nVeho is a technology-driven shipping company that enables personalized next-day package delivery, extending partner brand value. Veho brand partners have seen a 20% increase in customer repurchase, 40% increase in customer lifetime value, and 8% rise in net promoter score.  \n\nVeho gives package recipients greater insight and control, letting them know when they will receive their package, when drivers are en route, and enables real-time rescheduling, address changes, and personal delivery instructions. Veho's technology matches demand for package delivery with a network of qualified crowdsourced driver partners, ensuring every package is delivered on time and correctly.\n\nThe concept for Veho started as a school project while co-founder Itamar Zur attended Harvard Business School. Zur constantly experienced issues receiving packages - from getting the dreaded “we missed you” note, to stolen packages. He set out to fix the problem so many customers and brands face.\n\nToday, Veho’s robust technology platform provides customers and e-commerce brands with an unparalleled shipping experience, an industry record 99.9% average on-time performance for next-day delivery and an average 4.9-star customer rating. With teammates in 30 U.S. states, Veho will be in 50 markets by the end of 2022.\n\nAbout the RoleAs a Senior React Native Engineer, you will help design and build our mobile applications to create the best delivery experience for our drivers and clients. You will leverage your full-stack JavaScript and UI expertise to build tools that empower our operations teams and work closely with product and engineering team members to help build the logistics platform of the future.\n\nWhat You'll Be Doing\nArchitecting, building, testing, and deploying front end web and mobile applications and features for our customer, client, and operations user bases\nWorking with Product and Design to confirm requirements, prioritization, and development of new frontend features\nCollaborating and adding value through participation in peer code reviews, providing comments and suggestions\nWorking with technical and non-technical end-users, other engineers, and product managers in a cross functional, quick moving, and collaborative environment\nAnalyzing code, requirements, system risks, and software reliability and providing recommendations on how to leverage our technology more efficiently\n\nSkills and Experience You'll Need to Have\nAdvanced knowledge of React Native\nExperience working with modern JavaScript frameworks, like React and React Native. Experience working with Node.js.Experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing\nExperience participating in the complete product development lifecycle, building and scaling frontend applications\nEnjoy taking initiative, is a self-starter, and is excited about collaborating on big challenges\n\nSkills and Experience that would be a Plus\nExperience with React Native and mobile application development\nAbility to use client input to create functional, creative, and user-friendly apps\nFamiliarity with emerging trends and best practices in front-end development\nFamiliarity with AWS lambda or other serverless technologies\nAbility to test and debug features and apps, work proactively to identify, prioritize and address areas of concern\n\nTech Stack\nReact Native\nNode.js\nJavascript/Typescript\nReact\nAWS lambda and other serverless technologies\n\nWhy You Want to Work with Veho\nYou'll be working with an innovative, engaged, and people-centric team that is disrupting an industry giving everyone from small businesses to enterprise-level organizations the ability to provide an exceptional experience to their customers!\nCompetitive Salary\nFull Suite of Benefits - Health Insurance (medical, dental, vision)\nEquity in a super fast-growing start-up (if you aren't sure what equity is, click here to take a quick read!) (P.S. EVERYONE is eligible for the Equity Plan)\nWork From Anywhere \n\nVeho is a growth company that looks for team members to grow with it. Veho offers a generous ownership package, casual work environment, a diverse and inclusive culture, and an electric atmosphere for professional development. No matter the location, or the role, every Veho employee shares one galvanizing mission:  to revolutionize the world of package delivery by creating exceptional experiences for customers and drivers.  We are deeply value-driven (Ownership, Candor, Team Success, Human) and care tremendously about investing in people.  We are committed to creating a diverse team and an environment that provides everyone with the opportunity to do the work of their lifetime. Veho is unable to provide sponsorship at this time.  Applicants must be able to understand and effectively communicate orally and in writing with all parties regarding work matters, which are generally conducted in English.  Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to React, JavaScript, Serverless, Mobile and Senior jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $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\nRemote, USA