Job Title:IT Specialist (Software Developer), IS-2210,
Grade 11, 12; $62,758 to $97,787/annually

Location: Cambridge, MA

  
The NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Project within the High Energy
Astrophysics Division of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory is seeking
a software developer. The ADS was originally conceived and developed over 20
years ago as a system to support the discovery and retrieval of data from the
NASA Astrophysics missions and the scholarly literature about them. Today, the
ADS finds itself as the central discovery engine for astronomical information,
used nearly every day by nearly every astronomer. Moving into its third
decade, the ADS continues to serve the research community while remaining at
the forefront of the massive technological and sociological changes occurring
in the field of scholarly communication. By joining our group you will be
actively supporting the discovery, dissemination and reuse of scientific
publications and data!

  
The ADS is currently developing the next-generation web-based platform
supporting current and future services. To this end, the project is committed
to re-using and enhancing public domain software modules when they exist, and
developing new open-source software when necessary. The main components of the
system architecture are Apache SOLR/Lucene, CERN Invenio and MongoDB. The
development stack includes java, python, flask, javascript and bootstrap.

  
The project is looking for a highly-motivated full-stack developer interested
in joining a dynamic team of talented individuals architecting and
implementing the new platform. The primary responsibility of the employee is
the design, development, and support of the ADS front-end applications
(including the new search interface) as well as the implementation of the user
database, login system and personalization of the new software platform.

  
DUTIES:

  
Duties at the grate 11 level may include, but are not limited to: designing
and developing robust software applications and components to support the ADS
services, in particular the ADS user interfaces, and its interaction with the
back-end system components; providing ongoing support for the ADS system's
platform, including its bibliographic database, search engine, user database,
and other web-based applications used by the project; defining system
requirements and develop new tools to improve user submission and curation
efforts; developing and/or modifing existing tools used for digital content
harvesting, metadata enrichment, document conversion and indexing;
participating in the maintenance of ADS data holdings by taking part in the
creation, curation and enrichment of datasets and metadata records, and their
ingestion in the ADS databases.

  
Duties at the grade 12 level, in addition to those reflected at the 11 level,
may include: working with members of other organizations to coordinate
software development efforts and enable data exchange between ADS and its
partners; designing and implementing services and Application Programming
Interfaces that enable a high level of interoperability and integration
between ADS and its collaborators.

  
For more information, please see the full posting online at:[http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/hr/postings/13-32.html](http://www.cfa.harvard.ed
u/hr/postings/13-32.html)



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