Software Engineer, Digital Library Services - Tufts University
Tufts University
Medford

**Tufts University**  
**Software Engineer, Digital Library Services**  
  
**Department Summary**  
Tufts Technology Services (TTS) is a university-wide service organization
dedicated to the strategic planning, implementation, and support of technology
products and services that anticipate and meet the academic, research,
clinical and business needs of the Tufts community. TTS offers technical
leadership and services to our customers with a focus on providing innovative
solutions, delivering exceptional customer service, and creating a reliable
infrastructure that demonstrates value to the students, faculty, staff, and
alumni of Tufts University. TTS works in partnership with schools, business
units, and other academic support organizations to provide campus-wide IT
services in the areas of academic and research technology, enterprise
application systems and services, networking and telecommunications,
information security, data center operations, web services, classroom and
computer lab technology support, and user support, training and outreach.

  
Tisch Library supports the School of Arts & Sciences and the School of
Engineering, providing the services and resources to assist members of the
Tufts community in their teaching, learning and research. Tisch Library
provides collections, expertise, and technology-rich environments to support
the creation and dissemination of scholarship.

  
**Job Summary**  
Tufts Technology Services and the Tisch Library seek a talented software
engineer to join a professionally interdisciplinary team of software
engineers, archivists, and librarians in developing digital library and
repository software solutions. The systems being developed enable management,
preservation, and online discovery that support the research data and
scholarly, scientific, and creative expression of researchers, instructors,
and students throughout the University. This position's focus is on meeting
the academic needs of Tufts' largest schools, the School of Arts and Sciences
and the School of Engineering, which will require close collaboration with
metadata specialists and other Tisch staff members, as well as consultation
directly with faculty and students to understand technology needs and develop
solutions. The successful candidate will engage in digital preservation
strategies and repository systems research within the Digital Library
Development team and support an expanding suite of data and informatics
technologies within technology services and the library.

  
**Essential Functions**  
Work within an interdisciplinary team to design, develop and deploy world-
class, community-driven digital library and data repository software
primarily, but not exclusively, on the Fedora technology stack. Utilize a
variety of technologies, including Ruby, Java, Python, JavaScript, XML, HTML,
and CSS and libraries like Bootstrap, and Ruby on Rails.
Participate in code reviews, analyze new technologies for potential adoption /
integration into our main code base. Maintain professional
growth by keeping abreast of emerging areas in digital curation and
informatics.

  
Perform project related work to leverage and further develop existing
infrastructures that preserve and offer interaction with unique scholarly
research output and library software and systems work with them

  
Serve as part of a team that is responsible for the operation and maintenance
of production digital repository and web-based systems.

  
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