Back-End Web Development Specialist

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

The Again-Finish Internet Improvement Specialist, Media Viability Accelerator (MVA) will head up an essential perform for a innovative, on-line platform that can set a brand new normal for the trade – creating, testing, and deploying enterprise layer parts for the MVA.

Reporting to our Media Enterprise Unit’s Head of Know-how, the Again-Finish Internet Improvement Specialist’s work will concentrate on sustaining and additional creating an ASP.NET Core internet API, which manages enterprise layer features for the MVA akin to registration and knowledge entry.

ABOUT THE MVA

Solely by staying in enterprise can unbiased information and data suppliers hold individuals protected and in a position to make knowledgeable choices about their lives. With the rise of digital media, social and leisure platforms, and disinformation, these unbiased media battle to outlive. To assist meet this problem, Internews has secured a 3-year program from USAID which will probably be generally known as the Media Viability Accelerator (“MVA”) Ahead. It is going to be a extremely seen initiative (introduced on the 2021 and 2023 Summits for Democracy) and will have substantial influence on the media sector worldwide.

MVA Ahead is contributing to the event of a brand new on-line platform supporting unbiased media by strengthening their enterprise efficiency. Construct on Azure and utilizing ASP.NET Core, Angular and Bootstrap with embedded Energy BI knowledge visualizations, the platform gives a rising array of tailor-made insights and alternatives that may remodel media companies. By making these alternatives intuitive and straightforward to behave on, unbiased media at scale will interact to create a thriving new ecosystem that unlocks new paths to long-term monetary safety.

Dropped at Minimal Viable Product in January 2024 after seven months of growth, the platform is now prepared for phased launch by to public launch by August 2024. Over the approaching years, the event workforce will add options, performance, and languages in order that unbiased media around the globe can use the platform. In collaboration with Microsoft, the mixing of AI to create highly effective insights and proposals is a precedence. To make sure deep understanding of the MVA’s material, goal, and datasets, a small and devoted workforce will lead additional growth, supplemented by contractors for any particular deliverables past the workforce’s capability.

LOGISTICS

Internews has Headquarters places of work in Washington, DC and London, UK which help a hybrid workforce with workers working remotely, totally in-office, or partially distant. It is a remote-based position, and candidates primarily based wherever in america or United Kingdom will probably be thought of.

Purposes will probably be reviewed on a rolling foundation, so candidates are inspired to use quickly.

It is a limited-term place with an anticipated finish date of September 24, 2026. This place could also be prolonged.

OUR COMMITMENT TO FOSTERING A CULTURE OF BELONGING

We’re a corporation of dynamic, mission-driven people who’re obsessed with our core values and about supporting optimistic change on the earth. We delight ourselves on our dedication to innovation and suppleness. We imagine that numerous groups are sturdy groups and work to support an ethic of belonging, dignity, and justice for all people. Our present workforce consists of a mixture of genders, mother and father and non-parents, and other people of a number of races, nationalities, ages, sexual orientations, and socioeconomic backgrounds. We’re an EEO employer and encourage candidates of all races, genders, ages, orientations, ethnicities, and nationwide origins to use, and welcome these with various backgrounds and experiences.

DAY-TO-DAY TASKS will embrace:

Normal

• Dedication to understanding the MVA’s material, goal, datasets, and core applied sciences to make sure significant contribution to this system’s total goals.
• Contributing to defining the scope, goals, and actions of the MVA.
• In all duties, upholding Internews’ Core Values and demonstrating dedication to fostering a tradition of Belonging, Dignity, and Justice.

Collaboration

• Collaborating with the MVA Ahead program workforce, which leads rollout of the platform globally, making certain companion and stakeholder suggestions is mirrored within the MVA.
• Working intently with colleagues, together with a Product Supervisor and a Entrance-Finish Internet Improvement Specialist, to enhance software usability and have integration.
• Working in Scrum and contributing to dash planning, objective setting, and product design.
• Speaking with, coordinating with, and/or managing the work of exterior contractors and options suppliers.

Internet Improvement

• ASP.NET Improvement: Utilitize ASP.NET Core for the creation of back-end providers. This consists of creating APIs, microservices, and server-side logic to energy internet purposes, making certain excessive efficiency and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.
• Integration with Entrance-Finish: Work intently with front-end internet builders to make sure seamless integration of ASP.NET Core back-end providers with Angular front-end programs, facilitating a cohesive and dynamic person expertise.
• Database Techniques: Construct and handle database programs for environment friendly indexing, querying, prefetching and caching with lively administration of Azure SQL. Implement finest practices for database versioning and schema administration to make sure system robustness and knowledge integrity.
• API Integration and Administration: Develop and keep integrations with platforms — akin to Google Analytics, Google Search Console, Meta, YouTube, and Telegram — for knowledge retrieval and evaluation.
• Safe Operations: SEcurely handle secrets and techniques, software configurations, and shopper tokens utilizing Azure Key Vault. Take a look at platform and software API calls. Coordinate with the –Finish Internet Improvement Specialist for safety testing of Entra and AD 2BC authentication, authorization, and logic.
• Documentation: Preserve and lengthen documentation of processes and parts. Guarantee documentation is accessible and updated to help workforce collaboration and data sharing.
• Code Upkeep and Enchancment: Preserve and improve the prevailing codebase for optimum efficiency and scalability, with a concentrate on future compatibility.
• Testing: Enhance steady logging and testing methods. Undertake Take a look at-Pushed Improvement (TDD) or Conduct-Pushed Improvement (BDD) methodologies to make sure high-quality outputs and environment friendly bug monitoring.
• Mission Administration Instruments: Points and docs in Azure and Jira are key to challenge administration, monitoring duties, and collaborating with workforce members.

QUALIFICATIONS WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

Required

• A bachelor’s diploma in pc science or a associated self-discipline, or equal skilled expertise.
• A minimum of ten years of related skilled expertise, together with a minimal of 5 years {of professional} expertise as a Again-Finish Internet Improvement Specialist, with a confirmed observe document of profitable initiatives.
• Demonstrated proficiency in C# and ASP.NET Core for back-end growth, with a stable understanding of its ecosystem, together with Entity Framework, .NET Core Identification for authentication and authorization, and environment friendly knowledge entry methodologies.
• Expertise constructing RESTful APIs.
• Integration expertise, together with OAuth authentication and consuming RESTful APIs for knowledge retrieval, manipulation, and third-party service integration.
• Data of safety administration, together with use of Azure B2C.
• Database experience, together with expertise with Azure SQL Database.
• Glorious written and spoken English expertise.
• Confirmed interpersonal expertise, together with glorious team-building and communication expertise.
• Expertise with agile software program growth in a workforce utilizing model management.
• Means to work successfully each independently and in shut collaboration with colleagues, throughout a number of areas.
• Demonstrated organizational expertise, potential to multi-task, and prioritize workload.
• Self-reliance, resourcefulness, flexibility, and problem-solving perspective.
• Optimism, a humorousness, and pleasure relating to this work.

Most well-liked

Notice: Candidates who should not have these most well-liked {qualifications}, however who’re and keen to be taught, are inspired to use.

• Full-stack growth expertise.
• Expertise utilizing Angular and/or TypeScript.
• expertise in scripting or knowledge engineering utilizing Python.
• Superior expertise or certifications in Azure cloud providers and options.
• Expertise with steady integration and deployment (“CI/CD”) instruments and practices, significantly inside Azure DevOps.
• Familiarity with Azure cloud providers together with ADLS, Azure Key Vault, and Azure batch.
• Expertise working with efficiency metrics for knowledge visualization.
• Means to troubleshoot advanced points and develop efficient options.
• Intensive expertise with finest practices in knowledge safety and compliance.
• Expertise working with information media.
• Proficiency in another spoken language.