Front End Developer, Data Journalist at Daily Kos
Drew Linzer
Front End Developer - Data Visualization
Are you interested in progressive politics? Do you like telling stories with data? Daily Kos, the nation’s largest online progressive blogging and activism platform, is looking for a front end developer and interactive data visualization expert to join our elections and polling team, full time. The position combines design expertise with data journalism skills, and offers a great deal of creative flexibility.
Daily Kos is a great place to work -- You will be responsible for writing code that is used by millions of people who care about progressive politics and are working to make real political change. You'll join with a committed team of writers, researchers, and engineers as we plan ahead to the 2016 elections, and beyond. Building on our recent site redesign, you'll have an opportunity to bring readers new insight into our elections coverage in a visual, data driven way. You'll also help build out our ambitious new survey research platform.
To apply, please send an email to tech...@dailykos.com with the name of the position in the subject line, a cover letter, resume, and code samples, a github repo, or preferably a portfolio showing past examples of your work in digital storytelling or information visualization. If you want a job that provides more than just a technical challenge, we'd love to hear from you. We especially welcome you to get in touch if you’re interested or have been active in political technology around campaigns, organizing, or survey research.
DailyKos.com has an extensive feature set that extends across publishing, organizing, and political data. Daily Kos offers competitive salary, the latest hardware, and excellent benefits -- including generous time off, along with paid maternity/paternity/family leave, employer-paid medical insurance for employees, and a flexible work environment. You need to pick up your kids from school? No problem. You like to work out in the middle of the day? No problem. The office is conveniently located in the East Bay, close to BART. Remote work is OK too. People love working here, and tend to stay for a long time. We have a great space filled with great people, and the atmosphere is energized by the day's news events and our common cause.
Our engineering team is deeply committed to code quality. We maintain an extensive test suite, and automate everything we can, from infrastructure deployment to continuous integration. There is support for professional growth and development, including through regular skill shares that draw upon the diverse backgrounds of everyone on the team.
At Daily Kos, we believe that the diversity of ideas, experiences and cultures that our employees contribute to our organization help us be more effective in our work, and we are proud to be an inclusive and equal-opportunity workplace. We're a company that loves learning and supports growth and training for all our employees.
Skills & Requirements
Experience:
Expert knowledge of D3/JavaScript graphing technologies
Experience in graphics programming, interactive graphics, data visualization, and data analysis
Excellent problem solving, design, development, and debugging skills
Interest in politics, elections, and political data
Great to have:
Experience with large databases -- ETL, RedShift or other columnar store, etc.
Knowledge of statistics
Python/R