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Requirements Summary

Develop an understanding of our DAM infrastructure, systems and the challenges facing them Contribute to new projects and open issues, ensuring that implementation is completed in a maintainable,

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Overview
The New York Public Library is seeking a Software Engineer III to join our Digital Asset Preservation and Access (DAPA) team, where they will have a major impact on NYPL’s ability to make more of its extensive collections available online. This includes assets available on NYPL’s Digital Collections site, as well other discovery platforms, staff management tools and the systems that support them.

This will involve major contributions to an ongoing initiative to modernize the systems that provide access to these collections, and from there continue to expand them in collaboration with our partners in NYPL’s Research libraries. This strategic work will underlie much of NYPL’s objectives in this area, and is an exciting opportunity for an engineer to identify improvements that will impact all of our patrons. Some early goals will include building new OCR processes for better search, improving the stability of vital data pipelines and designing new methods of delivering high resolution images to patrons.

To deliver these strategic priorities, we are seeking an engineer who can help us proactively improve our engineering practices generally, develop solutions to longstanding engineering problems (and deploy them), and be an advocate for change on the team. As NYPL’s engineering teams have grown recently we are also looking for a candidate who is interested in collaborating with a wide range of partners to both learn about practices across the library and teach others about our work on DAPA. In all this is an exciting opportunity for an engineer to join an already successful team and help bring it to the next level.

Some expectations for this role are that within:

1 month, this person will:

Complete software development tasks collaboratively in accordance with our engineering workflows
Begin to understand the product requirements for our DAM systems and how they connect to larger strategic objectives
Review code and provide feedback during code reviews
Develop and execute unit tests for own/team’s code to ensure accuracy, reliability and robustness

3 months, this person will:

Develop an understanding of our DAM infrastructure, systems and the challenges facing them
Contribute to new projects and open issues, ensuring that implementation is completed in a maintainable, observable and testable manner
Own your project’s technical decisions that will impact the team and organization, especially around streamlining asset and metadata flows
Take ownership of existing systems

6 months

Consistently contribute to code bases and understand repositories across NYPL Digital
Participate in design and architecture discussions and demonstrate an ability to abstract problems into general solutions
Develop and maintain scripts to automate testing processes

12 months and beyond, this person will:

Own significant components of NYPL’s DAM ecosystem, including their design, implementation and maintenance
Participate in department-wide initiatives, such as the adoption of new testing frameworks, etc
Work well without strong support structures, either between teams or without one
Provide guidance to more junior software engineers regarding applications they own as well as on best practices in general
Collaborate with Engineering leadership on overall direction of team/project

Responsibilities

Understand project needs and how to implement specific technical solution
Take ownership of specific systems and ensure their maintenance/support
Partner with other engineers to design new software systems and improve existing ones
Collaborate with Senior Engineers to help realize new projects
Build software following industry best practices and NYPL values (https://github.com/NYPL/engineering-general)
Contribute to test suites to ensure the creation of accurate, reliable, and robust code
Create technical documentation and specifications for all delivered code
Understand how to identify and remediate tech debt
Identify and resolve ambiguities/issues with requirements for team and org-wide projects
Provide actionable feedback during code reviews
Assume additional responsibilities as required by the organization