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We are looking for a skilled Senior Javascript Engineer that has experience in working with video players. The role consists in coordinating resources both internal and external to the company. As a Senior Javascript Engineer, you will be responsible for working on new and exciting projects focussing on programmatic video advertising, social video and owning and maintaining a truly cutting edge product. As a rapidly growing team here at Blasting News, we place great emphasis on hard work, passion and commitment to providing the best online experience to our users. You will have great opportunity to grow within the company and help define our video strategy for the future. Professional skills: - Intermediate to advanced knowledge with web video players such as Video.js, JWPlayer. - Intermediate to advanced knowledge with programmatic video advertising (such as vpaid, vast xml). - Advanced knowledge of using native Javascript (ES5 and ES6). - Knowledge of JavaScript design patterns. - Comfortable working with JavaScript module loaders, such as Require.js / AMD. - Comfortable working with front-end build tools, such as Grunt and Gulp.js. - Knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, CSS Pre-Processors: SASS, LESS. - Strong understanding of browser rendering behaviour (events timeline, document ready, window on load, etc..) and performance. - Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around such limitations. - Proficient understanding of code versioning such as Git. Working place: Rome (Italy). The ideal candidate: - Several years of experience as a Senior JavaScript Web Engineer. - Business Level of English. - Excellent interpersonal skills, proactive, flexible, ambitious and determined. - Great leadership, communication and coaching skills. - Ability to work within a fast paced team to tight deadlines. Personal characteristics: Inclination to “make things happen” in a concrete way. Strong team spirit, proactive behaviour and innovation-oriented. Motivating personality that will champion the companies video initiative. The role consists in coordinating resources both internal and external to the company. The person we are looking for needs to have very good analytical and organizational skills with a constant craving for improving the status quo and solving day to day problems. Company description: Blasting News is a new disruptive concept of journalism - where every voice matters - being made by the people, for the people. Set up in mid-2013, Blasting News has grown to 100 million monthly unique on-site visitors in 44 months since its launch, the same time needed by Snapchat and 10 months faster than Facebook – a very encouraging league. Thanks to this growth, Blasting News is now the largest global social publisher, or the 120th most visited websites in the world (Alexa Ranking), publishing more than 11,000 video-news and 25,000 written-news each month. Blasting News has readers in five continents and offices in London, New York, Sao Paulo, Milan, Rome, and Hong Kong. News is produced by delocalized freelance contributors (Blasters), fact-checked and curated by a quality team of senior professionals. Furthermore, news is distributed by Social Blasters, a global team of top digital influencers. All the processes are fuelled by the crowd, without any central newsroom - thanks to an extensive use of technology (the core stages are managed by algorithms, some of which are patent-pending).

We are looking for skilled and passionate professionals, both junior and senior, in order to develop innovative apps based on cutting-edge technology. We leverage the latest technologies and deliver great results. We are growing fast and this means there is always a lot of work to do and we are looking for competent and passionate professionals to be in charge of spreading the amazing and compelling story of Blasting News. A significant experience: ? Developing with PHP (5+ and 7+ version) and a very good knowledge of OOP programming (developing on custom and popular Frameworks); ? Using the most widespread Design Patterns (Factory, Dependency Injection, Strategy etc.); ? Using Composer; ? Implementing multi-level caching application systems, especially Memcached - Redis; ? Developing with Javascript: OOP in native JS and through the use of popular frameworks (especially jQuery, React); ? Using GIT as version control system; ? Very good knowledge of database logics, especially MySQL (triggers, stored procedures, database design, query optimization tools). The following skills would be a plus: ? Experience with nginx as web server; ? Knowledge of Redis as a caching application system; ? Experience with NoSQL database, especially with MongoDB; ? Experience with Node.js; ? Experience with Elasticsearch; ? Experience interacting with bucket S3 Amazon through Amazon API (PHP); ? Ability of developing bash script; ? Business Level of English. Working place: Rome (Italy). Attitude: Attitude and approach are more important than competence at Blasting News, and they are the real key to succeed: ? Be entrepreneurial and proactive; ? Get things done; ? The easier, the better; ? Never complain: focus on solutions, don’t focus on problems; ? Lead by example; ? Love pressure and new daily challenges; ? Go beyond the assigned tasks; ? Learn fast; ? Listen first and be humble; ? Be fair. “It’s not easy to work here. You can work long, hard, or smart, but you can’t choose two out of three. But we are working to build something important, something that we can all tell our grandchildren about. Such things aren’t meant to be easy”. Personal characteristics: Inclination to “make things happen” in a concrete way. Strong team spirit, proactive behaviour and innovation-oriented. Motivating personality for the reaching of goals. The role consists in coordinating resources both internal and external to the company. The person we are looking for needs to have very good analytic and organizational skills and a marked inclination to problem solving and team work. Company description: Blasting News is a new disruptive concept of journalism - where every voice matters - being made by the people, for the people. Set up in mid-2013, Blasting News has grown to 100 million monthly unique on-site visitors in 44 months since its launch, the same time needed by Snapchat and 10 months faster than Facebook – a very encouraging league. Thanks to this growth, Blasting News is now the largest global social publisher, or the 120th most visited websites in the world (Alexa Ranking), publishing more than 11,000 video-news and 25,000 written-news each month. Blasting News has readers in five continents and offices in London, New York, Sao Paulo, Milan, Rome, and Hong Kong. News is produced by delocalized freelance contributors (Blasters), fact-checked and curated by a quality team of senior professionals. Furthermore, news is distributed by Social Blasters, a global team of top digital influencers. All the processes are fuelled by the crowd, without any central newsroom - thanks to an extensive use of technology (the core stages are managed by algorithms, some of which are patent-pending).

We are looking for skilled and passionate professionals in order to develop innovative apps based on cutting-edge technology. We leverage the latest technologies and deliver great results. We are growing fast and this means there is always a lot of work to do and we are looking for competent and passionate professionals to be in charge of spreading the amazing and compelling story of Blasting News. Main responsibilities: - Integrating ADV partners on Site (ADV creativity as banner, inRead, skin); - Optimizing web-application for maximum speed and scalability; - Building reusable code and libraries for future use. What you must know: - Strong experience using Object Oriented JavaScript; - Mastery of DOM manipulation using native javascript and using the most widespread javascript frameworks (especially jQuery); - Strong experience of Responsive, mobile-oriented Web Design; - Significant experience with the following technologies building web applications: CSS3, HTML5; - Knowledge and experience working with LESS CSS pre-processors; - Good knowledge of PHP OOP; - Good level of written and spoken English level. What we would like you to know: - Experience with Bootstrap framework; - Knowledge with DFP ad serving system. Working place: Rome (Italy). Personal characteristics: Inclination to “make things happen” in a concrete way. Strong team spirit, proactive behaviour and innovation-oriented. Motivating personality for the reaching of goals. The role consists in coordinating resources both internal and external to the company. The person we are looking for needs to have very good analytic and organizational skills and a marked inclination to problem solving and team work. Company description: Blasting News is a new disruptive concept of journalism - where every voice matters - being made by the people, for the people. Set up in mid-2013, Blasting News has grown to 100 million monthly unique on-site visitors in 44 months since its launch, the same time needed by Snapchat and 10 months faster than Facebook – a very encouraging league. Thanks to this growth, Blasting News is now the largest global social publisher, or the 120th most visited websites in the world (Alexa Ranking), publishing more than 11,000 video-news and 25,000 written-news each month. Blasting News has readers in five continents and offices in London, New York, Sao Paulo, Milan, Rome, and Hong Kong. News is produced by delocalized freelance contributors (Blasters), fact-checked and curated by a quality team of senior professionals. Furthermore, news is distributed by Social Blasters, a global team of top digital influencers. All the processes are fuelled by the crowd, without any central newsroom - thanks to an extensive use of technology (the core stages are managed by algorithms, some of which are patent-pending).