Associate Developer (Ruby on Rails), WGBH Educational Foundation, Boston MA
Posted March 5, 2014
Position Title: Associate Developer (Ruby on Rails)
Position Type: Project Contract 12/02/13 to 12/31/14+
Company: WGBH Educational Foundation
Department: Media Library & Archives
Department Overview:
WGBH produces the best and most well-known television, radio and online programs for public media. The WGBH Media Library and Archives preserves and helps re-purpose WGBH creations into the future. The MLA establishes the policies and procedures for the access, acquisition, intellectual control, and preservation of WGBH’s physical media and digital production and administrative assets. The MLA also offers production organization of archival materials from projects start up to shut down, research services, rights clearances, and licenses WGBH stock footage.
Position Overview:
The WGBH Media Library and Archives system will be based on the Hydra Project technology stack, which includes Ruby on Rails, Blacklight, Apache Solr, and the Fedora Commons repository. Working closely with the Media Library and Archive’s Director, Project Manager, Developer and Systems Analyst, as well as a WGBH Interactive Designer, the web developer will continue to develop the Open Vault website: http://openvault.wgbh.org and ongoing work to improve the digital asset management system.
Ideal candidates should be:
• comfortable working in teams of 2 to 6
• able to communicate clearly and respectfully to all team members, both technical and non-technical
• willing to explore new technologies
Duties will depend on individual strengths, but may include any of:
• general Rails development
• streaming video integration and presentation
• organizing and writing documentation
• usage stats and analytics
• DevOps and deployment
• performance stats, analysis and optimization
Bonus skills specific to our projects include experience or familiarity with:
*Solr search indexes
*Fedora commons repository
*XML, XSL, and manipulating XML with Nokogiri ruby gem
*SPARQL
*Rails deployment with Capistrano
Skills Required:
To perform the required duties, the Developer must have more than 1 year
of work experience developing web applications. Demonstrated interest in
library or moving images archive issues preferred.
Required skills for all duties include having working knowledge of:
• Ruby >= 1.9.3
• Rails >= 3.2.0, common conventions, patterns, and best practices, TDD with Rspec and Capybara (or equivalent)
• Github
• CSS3 + HTML5
• XML basics
• working from command line (OS X or Linux)
Other skills that will come in handy for other project tasks include having a experience in:
• SCSS
• jQuery
• Twitter Bootstrap
• how REST apis work
• Rails gem patterns
• HTML 5 video players
• ability to write raw SQL
Educational Requirements:
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science required.
Compensation:
Compensation for this position will be determined by the skills, background, education and availability of the candidate for the Contract period.
Applying for the Position:
Candidates should apply at www.wgbh.org/careers. Reference Job REQ# P-1075
Further questions can be addressed to Dani Baptista ([email protected]). Please put “REQ# P-1075 Associate Developer” in the subject line.