Senior Developer

Description

The Digital Products and Data Curation team at Northwestern University Libraries is looking for a term Senior Developer to help us build best-in-class AI driven, opensource discovery and metadata description applications for use by Northwestern and the wider library community. A member of the Digital Products team, the successful candidate will take part in a variety of public-facing, open-source projects that challenge assumptions about discovery of library collections and metadata generation. Prioritizing working code and pragmatic solutions, Northwestern Libraries is looking for a candidate that thrives in a fast-paced environment solving complex problems with bleeding-edge tools and who strives to improve access to a rich collection of cultural heritage artifacts including the 1968 Bursar’s Office Takeover, Berkeley Folk Music, and photos from the WPA https://dc.library.northwestern.edu/collections/ . In addition, the incumbent will focus on developing practices and standards that help the wider community implement similar systems. As a member of Northwestern’s Digital Products team, the successful candidate will thrive in an environment that moves fast, leverages team decision making processes, favors experimentation, and pragmatic implementations.