diff --git a/src/common/compute/backends/gme/metadata.js b/src/common/compute/backends/gme/metadata.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ef50ac57f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/common/compute/backends/gme/metadata.js
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+/*globals define*/
+define([], function() {
+    return {
+        name: 'WebGME Executor Framework',
+        dashboard: './dashboard/index',
+        client: './Client',
+        configStructure: []
+    };
+});
diff --git a/src/common/compute/backends/gme/metadata.json b/src/common/compute/backends/gme/metadata.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 43ca4a39b..000000000
--- a/src/common/compute/backends/gme/metadata.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-{
-    "name": "WebGME Executor Framework",
-    "dashboard": "./dashboard/index",
-    "client": "./Client",
-    "configStructure": []
-}
diff --git a/src/common/compute/backends/local/metadata.js b/src/common/compute/backends/local/metadata.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..95d9d4fc7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/common/compute/backends/local/metadata.js
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+/*globals define*/
+define([], function() {
+    return {
+        name: 'Server Execution',
+        dashboard: null,
+        client: './Client',
+        configStructure: []
+    };
+});
diff --git a/src/common/compute/backends/local/metadata.json b/src/common/compute/backends/local/metadata.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 685612247..000000000
--- a/src/common/compute/backends/local/metadata.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-{
-    "name": "Server Execution",
-    "dashboard": null,
-    "client": "./Client",
-    "configStructure": []
-}
diff --git a/src/common/compute/backends/sciserver-compute/metadata.js b/src/common/compute/backends/sciserver-compute/metadata.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4e9fd10cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/common/compute/backends/sciserver-compute/metadata.js
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+/*globals define*/
+define([
+], function(
+) {
+    return {
+        name: 'SciServer Compute',
+        dashboard: './dashboard/index',
+        configStructure: [
+            {
+                name: 'username',
+                displayName: 'Username',
+                description: 'SciServer username',
+                value: '',
+                valueType: 'stringX',
+                valueItemsURL: '/routers/SciServerAuth',
+                extraValueItems: [
+                    {
+                        name: 'Link account...',
+                        type: 'URL',
+                        value: 'https://apps.sciserver.org/login-portal/login?callbackUrl=<%= window.location.origin %>/routers/SciServerAuth/register'
+                    }
+                ],
+                readOnly: false,
+                isAuth: true
+            },
+            {
+                name: 'computeDomain',
+                displayName: 'Compute Domain',
+                description: 'A small job shares resources with up to 4 other jobs and has a max quota for RAM of approx 32GB. A large job runs exclusively and has all CPU cores and RAM available (approx 240GB), however since only one large job will run at a time, there may be a longer wait for the job to start.',
+                value: 'Small Jobs Domain',
+                valueItems: [
+                    'Small Jobs Domain',
+                    'Large Jobs Domain'
+                ]
+            }
+        ],
+    };
+});
diff --git a/src/common/compute/index.js b/src/common/compute/index.js
index d5a4dec33..e5c71a183 100644
--- a/src/common/compute/index.js
+++ b/src/common/compute/index.js
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 /*globals define, requirejs */
 (function() {
     const COMPUTE_BACKENDS = ['gme', 'local', 'sciserver-compute'];
+    const metadataPath = name => `deepforge/compute/backends/${name}/metadata`;
     define([
         'module',
         'deepforge/compute/backends/ComputeBackend',
-    ].concat(COMPUTE_BACKENDS.map(name => `text!deepforge/compute/backends/${name}/metadata.json`)),
+    ].concat(COMPUTE_BACKENDS.map(metadataPath)),
     function(
         module,
         ComputeBackend,
@@ -44,8 +45,7 @@
                 throw new Error(`Compute backend not found: ${id}`);
             }
 
-            const relativePath = `backends/${id}/metadata.json`;
-            const metadata = JSON.parse(requirejs(`text!deepforge/compute/${relativePath}`));
+            const metadata = requirejs(metadataPath(id));
             metadata.id = id;
             return metadata;
         };