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Chicago News Cooperative: Senior Developer

(Chicago, IL)

Do you care about making Chicago a better, more-informed city? Do you believe that smart technology can improve journalism and through it, society? The Chicago News Cooperative is a growing non-profit public service journalism startup staffed by some of the city's most accomplished journalists. We are looking for a talented, driven and creative coder to lead our development efforts.

You will play a crucial role in shaping the design and implementation of back-end and middle tier features of a forward-thinking and fast-paced news site, work closely with reporters and editors to generate applications to mine and present data in engaging and original ways, and be encouraged to pitch and pursue your own projects and ideas for the site. You will maintain the CMS and develop forward-thinking news apps.

A love of the news, a serious work ethic and intense attention to detail are key. You will get to come to work each day knowing that what you did contributed to the public good and was a lot of fun to pull off, too.

Ideal Skills: 


  • Has implemented and maintained a non-trivial CMS, ideally for the online publishing world
  • Extensive development experience in Python and Django
  • Solid experience with JavaScript, Ajax and XML 
  • Experienced with version control systems, ideal code practices, optimizing for scale and performance, the latest in web software architecture, etc.
  • Cloud familiarity w/ EC2, Google App Engine, etc.
  • Strong database management skills and experience w/ local and remote replication, primarily w/ MySQL
  • Well-versed in the Semantic Web and metadata
  • Experience with social networking applications
  • Experience delivering video & audio, live, on podcasts and in archives
  • Experience developing mobile applications
  • Has developed RSS and other data syndication feeds/tools
  • Has developed schemas for taxonomical tagging & search
  • Solid skills in XHTML / CSS development and cross browser compatibility testing

Apply: If this sounds right for you, send your resume and a cover letter explaining why to jobs@chicagonewscoop.org (please put Senior Developer in the subject line).

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