Job Posting: Blue Jays Web Developer
Position: Web Developer
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Responsibilities and Duties:
- Work closely with the entire Baseball Operations department to design and develop new applications to help support the decision process around player development and player evaluation.
- Work closely with the Research & Development Department to support existing applications that directly support front office and field personnel decision making.
- Update existing applications to utilize newer client- and server-side frameworks
- Collaborate with members of the Baseball Operations department to create internal best practices for application development, QA testing and deployment
- Communicate with users to gather system requirements
- Create tests and documentation for bug fixes and new application features/functions
Experiences and Job Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent professional experience required
- Experience with both front and back-end development is preferred
- Demonstrated ability to successfully develop and deploy data driven web applications is required
- Understanding of full-stack web development and agile software development concepts, including CSS, Git, HTML5, Javascript, and responsive design is required
- Experience using Python web frameworks such as Django, Flask, or Pyramid
- Experience with at least one of Python, Ruby, Perl, C++ and/or other programming languages is required
- Experience using jQuery and Bootstrap or other front-end framework
- Experience using Plotly, D3.js and other data visualization tools is a plus
- Experience with SQL and relational databases is required, including experience creating complex queries, stored procedures and functions
- Knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server database design is a plus
- Experience working with baseball data or delivering sports analysis tools and/or applications is a plus
- Ability to read, speak and comprehend English effectively
- Legally able to work in Canada
To Apply:
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