The University of California Press and the California Digital Library are seeking a Lead Application Developer for a high-profile initiative funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop an open source content and workflow management system for the production of scholarly books. This position represents an exciting opportunity to work on the establishment of infrastructure that stands to transform book publishing within the academic press and library publishing domains.

Collaborating with senior technical staff from partner organizations, the Lead Application Developer will:

• Design, develop, modify, test and maintain an enterprise-level, open-source, cloud-based software platform.

• Design, implement and work with related databases, web interfaces and content, and/or multimedia processes

• Ensure that the system requirements are appropriately addressed.

Advise the project team and management on technical strategies, new services, time constraints, cost incursions/savings, and development strategies.