JOB: Software Developer Job at the Met

The Met is looking for a talented and highly-motivated developer to help transform how the museum manages and shares its data with the world. This is a unique opportunity to join the team that will open up the museum’s content, broaden our audience, and establish new paradigms for content sharing within both our own applications and those of partner organizations.

Our team is small and relatively new at the museum. You will be working alongside two other developers and a manager, all with experience building award-winning apps and systems. We are an agile team, and value maintaining a sustainable pace as we collaborate on projects. We use test-driven development to help us achieve that sustainability.

The Met has over a million objects in its collection.  We host dozens of events per day, and put on scores of exhibitions per year in the hundreds of galleries that make up our two locations.  Our team’s mission is to connect all of this data and associated content and make it available to the public in the form of mobile apps such as The Met app and Audio Guide, as well as interactives installed in the galleries, and digital signage throughout the museum. Our current challenge is to transform and aggregate this data from various sources with disparate schemas, build useful and elegant tools for editing its metadata, and develop APIs and services for both internal and external uses.

We are looking for a back-end (or full-stack) developer with at least two years experience.  We are a collaborative team, and will look to your expertise and input to help us architect the best solutions.  Our focus for the coming months will be to design and implement the back-end that will support the museum’s public facing products, but front-end experience with native apps, mobile web, or kiosks is also valued.

You will also work closely with the collection information and web teams, as well as producers and product owners for the apps and systems we work on.  You will be working with an accomplished group of people, immersed in fascinating works of art, in one of the most renowned museums in the world.  We look forward to hearing from you.

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Science, Management Information Systems, Computer Science, related fields of study, or equivalent experience required
• 2-5 years professional experience building and maintaining APIs and services with a modern software framework desired
• 2-5 years professional experience working with an RDBMS
• Experience using a NoSQL technology is a plus
• Experience building microservices for production is a plus

Please send cover letter and resume to Lori.Malberg@metmuseum.org.