Temporary Full Stack Developer
Job Description
Poetic Justice at MIT Media Lab is a group of critical thinkers and makers researching social inequality across multiple fields, including social science, to develop artworks in sound, video, multimedia, sculpture and installation. We’ve been developing a series of participatory projects in which we collect phone-recorded voice samples from the public and remix them into public sound and video works, including A Counting (http://a-counting.us).
We’re looking for a self-directed and creatively-inclined Full-Stack Developer to help scale our existing web application for collecting multilingual voice recordings, editing and transcribing the recordings, and analyzing the transcripts. This role is a remote freelance position. However, preferably you’d be located in the NYC or Boston area.
Basic Qualifications:
- Minimum of 3 years of web development/architecture experience
- Minimum of 2 years of experience with Python using Flask, Django, or similar framework
- Minimum of 1 year of experience with application design and development using React or Angular
- Minimum of 1 year of experience with application design and development using Twilio or Vonage
- Minimum of 1 year of experience with modern DevOps tools, such as Git and GitHub
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with installation, configuration, and development including work within a production environment
- Experience with DevOps and Agile engineering practices
- Experience deploying systems into a production Cloud Native Environment with major cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform
- Experience with Containers and/or Serverless
- Experience in developing high performing client-side applications
- Experience with Responsive Design frameworks such as Twitter Bootstrap
- Experience with NLP libraries such as Spacy, Hugging Face, and NLTK
Professional Skill Requirements:
- Desire to work in an art and research environment
- Ability to work creatively and analytically
- Ability to communicate clearly and concisely in both technical and non-technical language
- Ability to collaborate and pair-program effectively
- Ability to work independently
How to Apply
BIPOC are encouraged to apply. Applications should be submitted at the following link: https://forms.gle/1QJ4vtNyHD4TCJN66274 total views, 0 today