Web Developer-Technology

The Web Developer is part of a small web team within the Technology department that focuses on implementing, maintaining, and improving the Museum's web presence. We work across all technical aspects to produce a variety of web and mobile projects related to art, community engagement, visitor experience, and open access.

Requirements:

• Experience writing testable code in a dynamic, object-oriented backend language such as PHP, Ruby, or Python
• Strong understanding of web technologies and development practices-including Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and JavaScript-as well as web fundamentals including HTTP, DOM, browser components, CDNs, and Internet Protocol
• Familiarity with SQL, relational databases, and database schema design, and ability to use SQL Server Integration Services
• Experience using programming frameworks-such as AngularJS, React, or Vue-to develop projects, as well as package management systems like Composer, Pip, or RubyGems
• Ability to set up, maintain, and write codebase tests using a testing framework
• Knowledge of Git and a general understanding of version control
• Understanding of tools and techniques needed to administer, maintain, and deploy projects via a Linux server, which may include Bash scripting, file system structure, process management, and web server configuration
• Familiarity with deploying from cloud services, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), DigitalOcean, and Linode
• Experience building and maintaining content management system (CMS) tools

Additional qualifications:

• Knowledge of E-commerce and PCI compliance best practices is helpful
• Experience working on mobile platforms, such as iOS and Android, is a plus
• Familiarity with UX design and information architecture preferred

Responsibilities:

• Maintain, update, and debug any functionality related to our AWS-hosted services
• Deploy projects from, and perform system administration for, our AWS-hosted Ubuntu Linux servers
• Design, develop, maintain, and update numerous codebases, which include those for our main website CMS, public and internal APIs, internal web pages, web applications, and programming jobs
• Establish and maintain procedures for code deployment, from version control and code access management to automated testing, and deploy to both staging and production environments
• Work with departmental stakeholders to translate requested functionality into new web application features
• Research, design, build, and write tests for new features
• Handle API key requests for our Collection API and respond to user questions
• Make design updates, working from design specifications, to the Museum's website and our Shopify-hosted Shop website
• Design and implement a relational database schema

Start date: Immediately

Department: Technology

Reports to: Director of Technology

Position type: Full-time

Union status: UAW Local 2110

Salary: $84,000

FLSA status: Exempt

Schedule: 35 hours per week, Mondays through Fridays, 9 am to 5 pm

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