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The Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) at Columbia University seeks a Web Developer to design, create, expand, and maintain Web applications, databases, and site functionality for CDRS' online projects.
CDRS serves the digital research and scholarly communication needs of Columbia’s faculty, graduate students, and scholars through the innovative adaptation and implementation of online tools and services. This Web Developer will work on multiple short-term and long-term projects to satisfy the requests of Columbia’s research community.
Responsibilities include:
- building and maintaining web pages using
technologies including but not limited to XML/XSLT/XQuery, PHP/MySQL, JQuery/Javascript,
YUI, Perl, and Ruby on Rails
- creating, customizing, updating and upgrading
WordPress, WordPress MU, MediaWiki and Drupal installs
- customizing Open Journal Systems and Open
Conference Systems installs
- developing and maintaining sites which make
extensive use of Lucene/Solr
- creating middleware or content management
functionality for sites
- constructing clean database designs using
MySQL, SQL query, PostgreSQL or another agreed-upon database language
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
- 3-4 years professional experience in
HTML/XML/CSS/JavaScript and related front-end development
tools
- 2-3 years professional experience in PHP/MySQL
coding
- 1-2 years experience with multiple versions of
blog and wiki applications
- 1-2 years experience with basic database construction
- Ability to code in table-less CSS structure
with an eye to cross-browser/platform issues and backward
compatibility
- Ability to quickly learn new applications and
terminology
Preferred:
- Experience with JQuery and YUI strongly
preferred
- Experience working with Lucene/Solr and JSON
preferred
- Familiarity with Open Journal Systems/Open
Conference Systems preferred but not necessary
- Familiarity with other open-source social
software a plus
- Perl and/or Python/Django knowledge a plus
Columbia University is open source-friendly!
Set in the Morningside Heights academic village, Columbia also presents
the unmatched dynamism, diversity and cultural richness of New York
City. The University Libraries, grounded in collections of remarkable
depth and breadth, are also building extensive electronic resources and
services. The Libraries at Columbia are committed to collegiality,
professionalism, innovation and leadership.
We offer a salary commensurate with qualifications and experience and
excellent benefits.
For immediate consideration please apply online at:
jobs.columbia.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=118331