New York, New york
Software Engineer/ Developer Job Opening in New York, New york - About JewishGen:
JewishGen is committed to ensuring Jewish continuity for present and future generations. Our free, easy to use website features thousands of databases, research tools, and other resources to help those with Jewish ancestry research, and find family members. Our mission is simple: to preserve our collective Jewish family history and heritage, for future generations. We accomplish this by (1) obtaining records, information, and tools that will be valuable for Jewish ancestral research, (2) maintaining an online community for family researchers to connect with relatives, and like minded individuals, and (3) ensuring the JewishGen website continues to offer its resources in an engaging, dynamic, intuitive and easily searchable format.
Job Description:
JewishGen?s software are critical to our mission, as they develop and maintain our dynamic website which is utilized by hundreds of thousands of people. Currently we are looking for a passionate Software Developer/Engineer to play a key role in our ongoing efforts to modernize JewishGen?s technology infrastructure. This includes updating and expanding existing software packages, systems integration and the migration of data to a new IT platform.
At the same time, we also are looking to develop new products, improve the delivery of services to our user community and achieve new efficiencies in all aspects of our work.
Responsibilities:
Build new features and capabilities for family historians to use in conducting their research
Assist architect of new database platform in implementing new search technologies.
Provide technical support for staff, volunteers, and end users.
Maintain website components, improve its reliability and overall integrity.
Install, configure and maintain back-end Windows Server applications.
Integrate services with our website, creating a PHP or ASP front end.
Edit content, formatting into HTML consistent with site styles and conventions.
Extend site styles using CSS.
Monitor, maintain and upgrade website security.
Create protocols, templates and structure for the validation and formatting of data in preparation for integration within our databases.
Create documentation for new and updated applications, processes and administrative protocols.
Work to ensure complete and seamless back-up of all site data and software.
Requirements:
Bachelor?s degree in Computer Science.
3-5 years working experience in website development in any technology but at a minimum including data retrieval, data presentation, and transaction processing.
Strong knowledge of SQL for SQL Server and MySQL
Experience with Apache Solr or ElasticSearch technologies
Strong skills in ASP Classic and PHP (both procedure and object-based).
Strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
Experience with version management systems such as TFS (Team Foundation Server), git, or other.
Demonstrated skills in modular software development, code reuse, software validation in interpreted environments (ASP, PHP), and effective error handling and logging.
Able to work effectively with minimal supervision to achieve project goals
Must be able to organize and prioritize own work to meet project objectives
Excellent Excel skills for text processing ? parsing and manipulation.
Knowledge of Windows Server application administration.
Must be available to address off-hours system failures.
Job Type: Full-time
Job Location:
New York, NY
Required education:
Bachelor's
Required experience:
Website Development: 3 years
Asp: 3 years
HTML: 3 years
SQL: 3 years
Javascript: 3 years
CSS: 3 years
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