Position Purpose:
All members of the Brown University Library team are vital contributors to our
mission to advance instruction, learning, and research at Brown University in
an environment of creativity and inclusivity. A community of academic,
professional and organizational learning, the Library embraces people who span
a wide range of viewpoints, life experiences, and intellectual pursuits.
Together, we preserve the past and innovate for the future. We invite
candidates with initiative, unique perspectives, inventive thinking, and a
passion for collaboration to join the University’s global mission of leadership
and academic excellence.
The Brown University Library (BUL) seeks a front-end developer to work on
signature digital scholarship projects with a specific focus on web
technologies. This position is part of the collaborative team of experts in the
Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS), which continues to advance Brown’s
long-standing commitment to innovation in digital scholarship and serves all
disciplines at the University. We are looking for a collaborative, creative,
and strategic thinker in front-end development who can write code in web
contexts, such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript to turn faculty and student digital
scholarship research ideas into final products.
The Developer works collaboratively with faculty, students, and CDS colleagues
to understand the scholarly ideas and goals of the project, identify the most
suitable technology framework for each project’s requirements, and determine
the architecture, frameworks, data schema, and development timeline to create
the project. Through continuous learning and maintaining up-to-date knowledge
of best practices for front-end development, including inclusive design and
accessibility, the Developer ensures that CDS is offering the best front-end
frameworks, technologies, and functionality for digital scholarship projects.
The Developer will create, maintain, and update repositories of code and
develop recommendations for long-term, sustainable solutions to front-end
development.
In addition, the Developer will have opportunities to work on broader web-based
development projects (using, for example, WordPress or another CMS). The
position may also involve serving as a mentor to undergraduate programmers who
may work on the projects as well. This position is hybrid eligible with the
opportunity to work at least two days a week remotely
Education and Experience
● Bachelor’s Degree
● 3+ years professional experience as a front-end developer
● Deep knowledge of web technologies and the ability to deploy efficient code
in web contexts (i.e. HTML5, CSS, JavaScript)
● Deep knowledge of at least one common JavaScript framework (e.g. VueJS)
● Ability to work with databases/search APIs (such as MySQL/Solr) to populate
web pages
● Knowledge of web standards, accessibility, device compatibility
● A team player; someone who enjoys working collaboratively with others
● Commitment to advancing diversity and inclusion in our workplace, as well the
systems and/or services we build, as an equity and social justice imperative
● Excellent verbal and written communication skills
● Solid knowledge of Python desired
● Knowledge of visual design and data representation principles preferred
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