Description:
About the Role:
Be a part of the highly respected Global News & Radio team as we take one of Canada’s biggest news sites, Globalnews.ca, to the next level. You can make a difference in the journalism of tomorrow with your contribution today in one of Canada’s leading newsrooms. Be present when local, national and international news breaks, helping the team solve real-world challenges that impact millions of unique users every month.
You will contribute by:
- Working in our agile development team to build products and features that grow our audience and enrich our user experience.
- Developing custom WordPress plugins that journalists across Canada rely on to produce award-winning content.
- Maintaining and enhancing custom WordPress themes that operate at scale across our network of news and radio websites, hosted on the WordPress VIP Go platform.
- Collaborating with award winning journalists to craft interactive and multimedia storytelling features.
- Being a part of a diverse and forward-thinking agile scrum team committed to an inclusive work environment that fosters professional growth.
Skills and experience you will bring:
- 5+ years of professional software development experience building large-scale, enterprise-grade websites.
- Proficient knowledge of modern front-end technologies, primarily HTML, CSS and JavaScript ES6.
- Proficient knowledge of PHP.
- Solid understanding of website architecture that integrates multiple data sources, and experience with REST APIs.
- Experience using Webpack, npm, and Git version control.
- Experience working on a scrum / agile development team.
- Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Strong knowledge and experience with Enterprise CMS; preferably WordPress.
Any of the following areas is an asset:
- Experience with modern front-end JS frameworks such as React, Angular or Vue.
- Experience with JW Player or other HTML5 video and streaming tools.
- Knowledge of Elastic Search.
- Experience developing on the WordPress VIP Go platform.
- Experience or interest in data journalism or visual storytelling.