Desired Skills and Experience
- Develop full-stack product features in an open source software environment, including user-facing front-end services
- Test, deploy and monitor applications, and react to problems.
- Technical support for DataCite members and third parties, including supporting technical documentation.
- 3+ years of experience with Javascript, Ruby, Java and/or Python.
- Hands-on experience developing, deploying and maintaining web applications, including system administration, error tracking, and support.
- Experience with project management and open source software development practices.
- Excellent communication skills, and the flexibility that is needed for working in a small, distributed team.
- Strong and demonstrated interest in open science and data sharing.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
- Experience in frontend development. Interest and/or experience with ReactJS and/or EmberJS.
- Interest and/or experience in DevOps.
- Interest to learn and use other languages such as Clojure or Go.
- provides a way for researchers to share and get credit for the datasets they generate;
- enables easier access to research data;
- supports the development of new services;
- facilitates access to data not linked to a particular publication;
- increases acceptance of research data as legitimate, citable contributions to the scholarly record;
- supports data archiving, permitting results to be verified and re-purposed for future study.