Job Description
About the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy. The Museum lives in two iconic sites in New York City—The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters. Millions of people also take part in The Met experience online.
Since its founding in 1870, The Met has always aspired to be more than a treasury of rare and beautiful objects. We are committed to fostering a collaborative and respectful work environment with a staff as diverse as the audiences we engage. Our staff members are art lovers who are passionate about working toward a common goal: creating the most dynamic and inspiring art museum in the world.
At The Met, every staff member – from security officers to researchers to scientists and beyond – lives by our core values of respect, inclusivity, collaboration, excellence, and integrity.
Respect: Engage one another with collegiality, empathy, and kindness, always.
Inclusivity: Ensure that all are and feel welcome and valued.
Collaboration: Reach across boundaries to exchange ideas and work together toward our shared mission.
Excellence: Lead the cultural world in quality and expertise—and inspire curiosity and creativity.
Integrity: Hold ourselves to the highest moral standards, admit when we fall short, and then evolve.
GENERAL STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES:
As part of the Digital Product Development team, you will collaborate with the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art to develop a series of digital humanities research projects on The Met’s website, and to support the Research Center website. You will build two types of intuitive, design-forward digital interfaces for art historians and other audiences.
This is a position with an established end-date or time frame. Time frames will begin upon hire: 9 Months
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES: Identify user requirements, develop software solutions and ensure digital applications meet needs of both the Lauder Research center and external researchers and historians.
Develop digital tools to interact with research materials including resources such as essays, videos, artist books and sketchbooks.
Develop searchable databases for works of art, that include search parameters such as all works that pass through a particular dealer.
Work with a cross-functional product development team consisting of a product manager, front and back-end developers, UX designers, QA staff, and the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center team.
Attend and engage in regular meetings with the Research Center team to ensure requirements are met.
Write clean and well-structured code that is documented appropriately, tested effectively, and consistently error-free.
Build core code libraries that are reusable across teams and initiatives.
Work with other engineers to prevent unnecessary code duplication.
Lead technical development for research projects and collaborate with the team to meet project timelines.
Triage, fix and resolve production issues including bugs, bottleneck & deployment hiccups to ensure users stay up & running.
Proactively monitor application health to catch and resolve problems early.
REQUIREMENTS & QUALIFICATIONS: 5 years of professional experience in software/application development with a focus on web applications.
Production-level fluency with React. Hands on experience with Next.js, Sanity, & Elasticsearch preferred.
Proven experience with managing projects independently with minimal ramp up.
Proven ability to work collaboratively and solve problems within diverse teams.
Familiarity with Agile methodologies and iterative software development practices.
Demonstrated success delivering complex projects from concept to launch.
Proficiency with Git and experience implementing CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Playwright, GitHub Actions) for automated testing.
Ability to balance code quality, performance, and test coverage with user and stakeholder needs.
Comfortable asking questions and speaking up to clarify goals, request support, and propose improvements.
COMPENSATION RANGE: Pay range: $80.00 - $85.00 / Hourly
The advertised pay scale reflects the good faith minimum and maximum salary range for this role. The advertised pay scale is not a promise of a particular wage for any specific employee. The specific compensation offered to a candidate may be dependent on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, the candidate’s experience, education, special licensing or qualifications, and other factors.
Visa Sponsorship
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
Location Requirements
At time of employment, employees are expected to be located within commuting distance of the Museum. “Commuting distance” means that they are located in one of following states: New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, or Pennsylvania (the “Tri-state and PA” areas), and be able to commute to and from the Museum in a single day.
Benefits Offerings
The Museum provides competitive compensation, and generous benefits and perks for all eligible employees. Note: Benefits Offering may differ based on Employee Status.
Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
403(b) basic retirement plan and optional matching retirement plan with an outstanding employer match
Considerable paid time off, including annual leave, sick leave, and 13 Museum holidays
Long-term disability coverage
Flexible Spending Accounts & Health Savings Account (pre-tax income for eligible health care expenses)
Commuter benefits (pre-tax income for parking or mass transit expenses)
Free financial-planning services
Financial assistance for relevant coursework, seminars, and training programs
25% discount for staff in Museum shops
A subsidized staff cafeteria
Access to the Museums Council pass, which grants free admission to various museums and cultural institutions
We recognize that it is highly unlikely that someone meets 100% of the desired attributes for a role. If much of this job description describes you, then please apply for this role.
The Met is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, The Met will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed in this process, please contact benefits@metmuseum.org .
The Metropolitan Museum of Art provides equal opportunity to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, pregnancy, alienage or citizenship status, marital status or domestic partner status, genetic information, genetic predisposition or carrier status, gender identity, HIV status, military status and any other category protected by law in all employment decisions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, compensation, training and apprenticeship, promotion, upgrading, demotion, downgrading, transfer, lay-off and termination, and all other terms and conditions of employment.
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