Hi!  We're hiring.

  https://www.gwu.jobs/postings/19740

  "We are looking for a software developer to join our growing IT team. Our 
team works on digitization, technology, and development; it comprises full-time 
staff responsible for digitization operations, IT services, library systems, 
web development, software development, and project management.  We are in the 
thick of all the things academic library IT groups are doing: improving user 
experience across diverse services, mass reformatting operations, developing 
new software and services for our community, and working more and more with 
diverse data and digital collections. We want to add somebody who will help us 
move wisely and efficiently through our tasks and projects so we can focus 
together on redefining the library as a platform for information access and 
services."


Filling this position will double our full-time developer staff.  There is room 
in the position for a healthy range of tasks, roles, starting skill level, and 
experience (come in at rank L2, L3, or L4) and we can offer an appropriate 
salary to match.  There are good benefits with this Librarian-classed position, 
including the potential for six months of paid research leave and substantial 
tuition discounts for employees their family members.  And we mean it - right 
now three members of our team alone (including me) are working on graduate 
degrees using tuition discounts available to GW employees.

Nearly every software project we work on is free and open source; most of our 
work is managed in github:

  https://github.com/gwu-libraries

We publish our software under an MIT-style license that accords with an 
explicit free/open source software release policy approved by senior GW 
administration.  We are optimizing our dev workflows around how github works, 
using tickets, milestones, branches, pull requests, and travis builds.  We do 
this to align ourselves with the broader free software community and because it 
helps us deliver our work better to the GW community.

If this sounds good to you, and if you meet the minimum/basic qualifications, 
please consider applying.  We've got a lot going on and we could use your help.

Please get in touch with me if you have any questions.

Thanks for reading, -Dan

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