Research Software Developer

Description

The Research Software Developer works in the domains of the Digital Humanities and Research Data. As a shared position between the Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) and Princeton University Library (PUL), the developer will work with faculty, graduate students, undergraduates, and postdoctoral fellows across the disciplines to enhance Princeton’s research community and support data-driven research.

In both CDH and PUL, the developer will create, maintain, configure, adapt, and document source code to support data-driven research, establish best practices, and help develop innovative digital humanities projects in a collaborative environment that includes fellow CDH and PUL staff, academic researchers, and other relevant campus partners.

The developer will offer consultations and training related to data management and programming skills for the Princeton community. They will help to raise the profile of software development at Princeton through participation in national and international professional and scholarly communities.

The Research Software Developer reports to the Lead Developer in the Center for Digital Humanities and the head of PUL's Digital Repository and Discovery Services. Twenty percent of their CDH time will be devoted to a personal R&D project, chosen in consultation with the Lead Developer. 

NOTE: This is a 3-year term position with possibility of renewal.

Qualifications: 

Essential:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• 3+ years work experience
• Experience working in software development teams
• Experience with one or more high-level scripting languages (Python or Ruby preferred)
• Experience with web and micro frameworks (eg. Flask/Django or Rails)
• Experience with web standards (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, etc.) and relevant frameworks (JQuery, Bootstrap, etc.)
• Experience with RESTful APIs and various data stores and tools such as: relational databases, XML databases, graph databases; Solr or Elasticsearch; RDF and XML
• Experience with various aspects of automated testing, including unit testing, integration testing, and continuous integration
• Experience with version control
• Ability to write clear documentation
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Ability to manage projects and multiple priorities

Preferred:

• Experience working on and contributing to open source software projects
• Familiarity with humanities research and ability to communicate with humanities researchers
• Familiarity with research data management and institutional repositories
• Familiarity with best practices for data modeling and data management
• Experience with DevOps and deployment automation
• Familiarity with RDF, Linked Open Data, semantic web technologies
• Familiarity with natural language processing software and methods