Senior Frontend Engineer, Elections-News Digital

Job Description

Responsibilities
The NBC News elections development team is looking to expand our team. We strive to build an elections results site that is both extremely fast and highly accurate. Our work is used by millions of concurrent users to learn the outcomes of election results, all while updating live on an election night. We're striving to grow our team so we can continue to keep our audience and the American public informed throughout the crucial elections in 2022 and 2024.
Our technology stack includes: React, Next JS, Node, D3, Jest and Cypress.

We are looking for someone who has a strong command of javascript concepts who is also willing to dive in and learn new technologies while building new features to scale for our large audience.

This job can be done from anywhere, but on important election nights we'll offer the opportunity to collaborate on site at 30 Rockefeller Center in NYC so we can be on hand for the NBC politics reporting team. Job requirements
• 4+ years of front-end web development
• A track record building web applications with a modern web framework like React or Vue
• Familiarity with data, and best practices for displaying realtime data streams within user-facing web products
• Experience communicating with a multifunctional core team, including design and journalism colleagues
• A creative knack for solutions and a vision for streamlining code and processes, keeping both broadcast needs and engineering/design needs in perspective
• Experience keeping non-technical stakeholders informed in a distributed environment
• Relevant education, either a technical Bachelor's degree OR equivalent work experience

Qualifications/Requirements
• Implement election storytelling, data visualizations (e.g.

charts, graphs, maps, cartograms), and other election

related features and services
• Use best practices including consistent coding

standards, style guide principles and browser testing
• Collaborate with dataviz, interactive graphics and

broadcast teams, as well as designers and back-end

developers to establish and execute digital deliverables
• Participate and contribute in team planning while

providing opinions and helping estimate the level of effort
on all projects.
- Must submit an attestation disclosing your COVID-19

vaccination status and, if partially or fully vaccinated,

submitting your vaccination record no later than 7 days

following commencement of employment.
- Must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 at the

commencement of employment or adhere to enhanced

protocols if Company determines your job position

requires accessing an NBCUniversal worksite.
- Must be willing to adhere to all Company COVID-19

workplace safety policies and protocols.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rzek53-18-220-154-41-42 in your application.