Job Posting: Nationals Baseball R&D Web Developer

Position: Baseball Research and Development Web Developer

Location: Washington, D.C.

Description:

The Washington Nationals are seeking a web developer to join the organization’s Baseball Research and Development team. The role will focus on building new web application features for decision-support systems and tools used throughout the organization. The developer will design UI components to visualize and facilitate in-house baseball datasets from R&D analysts as well as external data accessed via APIs.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Work with each layer of the web application stack to create new features.
  • Design intuitive interfaces to effectively convey information and receive data from users.
  • Facilitate the creation of new database components and automated tasks related to new features.
  • Follow existing design patterns and coding practices in the code base.
  • Balance long-term projects with day-to-day high priority changes.
  • Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements

  • Advanced degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related field.
  • Demonstrated expertise with HTML, CSS, JS, as well as JQuery or similar JS Frameworks.
  • Demonstrated experience with modern database technologies such as PostgreSQL and MySQL.
  • Demonstrated experience with web application frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, Django and J2EE.
  • Demonstrated experience using modern programming languages such as Ruby, Python and Java.
  • Demonstrated expertise in UI design and a passion for user experience.
  • Familiarity with working in a GNU/Linux environment and experience using Git version control.
  • Willing to relocate to Washington, DC
  • Authorized to work in the United States.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities necessary to perform essential functions

  • Highly motivated with excellent attention to detail
  • Creative and analytical thinker
  • Strong, confident communication skills including the ability to write clearly and effectively
  • Demonstrated passion for baseball and baseball operations
  • Experience with baseball data and understanding of sabermetric concepts is preferred.
  • Uphold Core Values: “Excellence, Performance, and Accountability. These core values set the tone in everything we do, help us succeed on and off the field, make a difference in the community and provide the best guest experience in sports. It is important that the person in the position commits themselves to these core values so that we can constantly move forward in the same direction – Together.”

Physical/Environmental Requirements

Working conditions are normal for an office environment. Work may require occasional weekend and/or evening work.

To Apply:
Please visit this site to apply.





Meg is the managing editor of FanGraphs and the co-host of Effectively Wild. Prior to joining FanGraphs, her work appeared at Baseball Prospectus, Lookout Landing, and Just A Bit Outside. You can follow her on twitter @megrowler.

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Easyenoughmember
5 years ago

Are there people that are both good at UI design AND full stack developers in more than one language AND data analysts?

14689142745member
5 years ago
Reply to  Easyenough

yeah buddy and they are lining up to earn below market

ShaunMcNameemember
5 years ago
Reply to  Easyenough

No, these do not exist, especially having to move to DC and earning below market salaries, and working “some” nights and weekends.

But, this is just like every other tech job description I have ever seen – way too many things listed so that web crawlers will pick up the litany of keywords and show it to a wide range of devs.