JavaScript Developer - MTS 1

You join the Applications team, an experienced, informal and enthusiastic scrum team of 4 developers. The team is responsible for the development of highly scalable, flexible and responsive front end applications that are used on many high traffic international websites. Our Olympic widgets reached more than 300 million hits in 2 weeks on the NBC Olympic website.

The products that the Applications team develop and support include:

• Our widget platform, a React based product enabling our customers to integrate our sports data directly in their web pages

• Our hosted pages platform, a NodeJS and Express based product supplying seamless white labeled sports results pages to our customers

Examples of projects you will be working on in the next year:

• Development of a generic schedule widget that is able to display all sports in all timezones in all languages

• Development of widgets that can render in Smart TV applications

• Creation of Olympic widgets to give clients a full and rich Olympic coverage for the Paris 2024 Olympics

We are:

• A multinational company, with clients like FIFA, NOS, NBC, IOC, Eurosport, NU.nl, and many more

• Working in an Agile and Scrum development environment

• Working with state of the art techniques (React, Node.js, MongoDB, Kubernetes, AWS Lambda e.g.)
  
  
  

We offer:

• An informal atmosphere in a dynamic media company with opportunities for ownership and personal development

• Motivated, sports minded colleagues

The ideal candidate:

• at least 3 years of experience in React

• experience with ES6, Jest, WebPack, MongoDB and Sass

• write unit tested code as part of standard coding practices

• energetic team player

• experience working in an Agile environment.

• good communication skills and able to share his/her knowledge with the team.

• good knowledge of the English language, both spoken and written.

• B.E / B.Tech / BCA/ MCA in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject.

Furthermore, it is an advantage if you:

• Have experience with AngularJS, Angular, Node.js and, Typescript

• Have experience with API s, JSON(P) and XML

• Have an affinity with sports

• Are used to working with the scrum framework

• Like to understand and brainstorm about architecture

• Experience in working on public cloud environments like AWS, Azure w.r.t. solutions development, deployment & adoption of cloud based technology components like IaaS / PaaS offerings.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate:

• at least 5 years of experience in JavaScript

• experience with React, ES6, Jest, WebPack, MongoDB and Sass

• minimum of three years of experience as a programmer

• write unit tested code as part of standard coding practices

• energetic team player

• experience working in an Agile environment.

• good communication skills and able to share his/her knowledge with the team.

• good knowledge of the English language, both spoken and written.

• B.E / B.Tech / BCA/ MCA in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject.

Furthermore, it is an advantage if you:

• Have an affinity with sports

• Are used to working with the scrum framework

• Like to understand and brainstorm about architecture

• Have experience with API s, JSON(P) and XML

• Have knowledge of other (front end) technologies like Node.js, AngularJS and Typescript

• Experience in working on public cloud environments like AWS, Azure w.r.t. solutions development, deployment & adoption of cloud based technology components like IaaS / PaaS offerings.