Description
One Year Position
A full-time temporary position is available in the Digital Media department for a full stack web developer. The Digital Media department is responsible for creative direction, content strategy, implementation, and management for all of the Museum’s public-facing digital products, including the museum’s website, visitor app, and digital signage system. This position reports to the Director of Digital Media.
Responsibilities:
- Work with the Senior Manager of Digital Technologies to fix bugs, build new features, and carry out maintenance of Ruby on Rails website and API, and additional internal websites on a variety of platforms
- Work with graphic designers to ensure accurate, pixel-perfect translation of design to code.
- Ruby on Rails
- HTML5, CSS, SASS
- JavaScript, ECMAScript 2016, Angular
- Service-oriented architecture
- Docker
- REST API’s
- Linux server administration
- Version control, Git preferred
- CMS’s such as Drupal and WordPress
- Django/Python
- Node.js
- Responsive websites and BEM methodology
- Accessible website design, including familiarity with W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 and Section 508
- Knowledge and interest in 20th-century American art and contemporary art
Requirements:
- BA in computer science preferred; comparable work experience will be considered
- Strong client-facing communication and project management skills; strong ability to manage personal time, tasks
- Strong attention to detail
- Ability to work independently and teach yourself new technologies
Required skills (3+ years’ experience):
- Ruby on Rails
- HTML5, CSS, SASS
- JavaScript, ECMAScript 2016, Angular
- Service-oriented architecture
- Docker
- REST API’s
- Linux server administration
- Version control, Git preferred
- CMS’s such as Drupal and WordPress
- Django/Python
- Node.js
- Responsive websites and BEM methodology
- Accessible website design, including familiarity with W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 and Section 508
- Knowledge and interest in 20th-century American art and contemporary art
Desired experience, but not required:
- CMS’s such as Drupal and WordPress
- Django/Python
- Node.js
- Responsive websites and BEM methodology
- Accessible website design, including familiarity with W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 and Section 508
- Knowledge and interest in 20th-century American art and contemporary art
About the Whitney:
As the preeminent institution devoted to the art of the United States, the Whitney Museum of American Art presents the full range of twentieth-century and contemporary American art, with a special focus on works by living artists. Designed by architect Renzo Piano and situated between the High Line and the Hudson River, the Whitney's new building vastly increases the Museum’s exhibition and programming space, providing the most expansive view ever of its unsurpassed collection of modern and contemporary American art.
The Whitney Museum of American Art is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Museum does not discriminate because of age, sex, religion, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage or citizenship, disability, marital status, partnership status, veteran status, gender (including gender identity), sexual orientation, or any other factor prohibited by law. The Museum hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled. The Museum encourages all qualified candidates to apply for vacant positions at all levels. This description shall not be construed as a contract of any sort for a specific period of employment.
Info for the application
Please send resume and cover letter to: and state “Web Developer” in the subject line. The proposed start date for the position is November 1, 2016, and the duration will be for a maximum of one year. Health insurance is not offered.
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