Front End Programmer: Dynamic Interaction Design and Visualization<\/b><\/p>\n
Company Overview<\/b><\/p>\n
Headquartered in Cambridge, MA, GNS Healthcare is a predictive analytics company whose math and machine\u00a0learning technologies derive causality – not just correlation – from mountains of health data. Where other companies\u00a0describe the statistical \u2018what\u2019<\/i>, our platform delivers the underlying explanation of \u2018why\u2019<\/i>, if A and B, but not C and D\u00a0happen, then X (for instance, a stroke) will happen. This enables intelligent interventions that save and improve lives\u00a0and cut medical costs. By learning causal models directly from data, we quickly and more precisely discover what\u00a0treatments work for whom.<\/p>\n
GNS is helping healthcare leaders discover the knowledge they need to match patients with treatments that work.\u00a0Our analytics solutions are being applied across healthcare: from pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to\u00a0payers, integrated delivery systems, and accountable care organizations (ACOs).<\/p>\n
Corporate Culture<\/b><\/p>\n
We are passionate about our work and believe that by creating evidence-at-scale, we can help transform healthcare. \u00a0We look for curiosity, passion, drive and resiliency and value creative intelligence, open teamwork and dedication.<\/p>\n
Most of all, we are looking for people who want their talents to make a difference in the real world, vs. designing the\u00a0next hip app or launching the next “meme.” All the talent and energy under our roof goes into products that help\u00a0real people avoid a medical emergency, or the emotional and financial stress of chronic disease. Our end-users’\u00a0ability to grok “big data” impacts life, death, health and financial solvency for thousands of individuals and families.\u00a0That\u2019s why our engineering, math and design needs to be insanely great.<\/p>\n
Job Description<\/b><\/p>\n
We are looking for an experienced front-end application programmer who is a master of making information\u00a0manipulable, not just viewable. You are adept at creating integrated dynamic views and controllers (an interaction in\u00a0one frame changes the view in another, highlighting an item on one part of the screen triggers queries that change\u00a0the overall picture), and programming elegant ways to raise the signal-to-noise ratio in a complex information space.\u00a0If the elegant solution means context-dependent controls, animated overlays, or taking advantage of the graphics\u00a0chip in a tablet device, you should be comfortable, as a programmer, implementing that. But you are also on guard\u00a0against \u201cdesign for its own sake.\u201d When end-user interactions have real world consequences, every affordance needs\u00a0to pull its weight.<\/p>\n
You have<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2022 Extensive experience with JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, and iOS (including tablet and mobile).<\/p>\n
\u2022 Extensive software development experience building complex web applications in a variety of languages.\u00a0Experience with functional programming and Python is a plus. Experience with (and fond memories of)\u00a0Processing is a plus.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Experience working with \u201cbig data\u201d and the APIs and middleware that make it possible to render, manipulate,\u00a0and interact with large volumes of data through a front-end interface. The more (and more troublesome) APIs\u00a0you\u2019ve worked with, the better. We need to see you\u2019re adept with data interfaces: Amazon, Facebook, Spotify,\u00a0National Weather Service, U.S. Census, the bigger the better. What would really put you over the top: creating\u00a0front end interactions driven by large volumes of data that moves fast: financial data, e-commerce, logistics,\u00a0Twitter. If you can drink from a fire hose to give an end-user a clear sense of what\u2019s happening, and why it\u00a0matters, you\u2019re our kind of awesome. Likewise, if you\u2019ve made complicated information usable: highly nested\u00a0health data, XBRL, high-volume ontologies-from-hell, etc.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Experience with Agile methodologies, e.g. Scrum or extreme programming. Strong focus on automated testing\u00a0and deployment. Experience with DevOps a plus.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Curiosity and passion for the end-user experience: You want to push technical boundaries, find clever hacks, and\u00a0learn how an epidemiologist or an actuary sees the world. You want to give the people arguing \u201cif we spend some\u00a0money over here, 14,544 people don\u2019t go into diabetic shock there,\u201d an interactive way to tell that story that\u2019s\u00a0going to rock their boss\u2019s world.<\/p>\n
\u2022 A portfolio of projects you can show and talk about – we want to see stuff you’ve actually programmed, and hear\u00a0about what made it challenging, fun, what you learned and what you’d do differently. Send URLs.<\/p>\n
GNS offers competitive salaries, vacation, stock options, health and dental insurance, long-term disability and a\u00a0401(k) plan.<\/p>\n
Contact<\/strong>: JC Herz, Director of Product Strategy and Design – jc@gnshealthcare.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Front End Programmer: Dynamic Interaction Design and Visualization Company Overview Headquartered in Cambridge, MA, GNS Healthcare is a predictive analytics company whose math and machine\u00a0learning…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}