WEB DEVELOPER

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Benefits: As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position, please visit our website.

As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state, and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills, and dedication to building stronger minds and a healthier world.

The Team:
The APL-UW Communications and Information Services ensures that internal and external messages and information about the Laboratory’s research, development, teaching, and outreach activities are produced and conveyed to the highest standard to enhance the Laboratory’s reputation as a premier science, engineering, and education center. This collaborative team is key to creating and sustaining APL-UW identity by conceiving and producing high-quality, consistent communications products across all media, including print, digital, video, and social media.

The Position:
We are seeking a full-time Web Developer to join the team. This position has a salary range of $84,000 to $102,000 per year ($7,000-$8,500 monthly), along with great employment benefits and competitive total compensation incentives.

The Web Developer will collaborate with designers and engineers to implement a new front-end design vision driven by a backend support structure. This incumbent must possess a strong understanding of user experience principles and design. The Web Developer will contribute to a vision of where they successfully accommodate the site’s aesthetic goals without compromising usability.

A successful candidate:

• Highly motivated and has a passion for creating and supporting great products
• Thrives on collaboration, working side by side with people of all backgrounds and disciplines
• Is great at solving problems, debugging, troubleshooting, designing, and implementing solutions to complex technical issues

Web Developer Responsibilities:

Website Development:

• Oversee, manage, and improve websites by developing new user-facing and mobile-based features.
• Collaborate with the team’s software engineers to define coding practices, standards, and security protocols.
• Write clean, secure, and reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Validate the technical feasibility of website designs while applying best practices in designing and testing for accessibility.
• Conduct thorough testing of user interfaces in multiple platforms.
• Troubleshoot and respond to errors and issues as they arise.
• Write SQL queries and extract data from UW data warehouses as needed.
• Integrate internal and third-party web tools and applications as needed.
• Maintain awareness of technology advances and collaborate on applying new approaches.

Project Management:

• Work with the team to prepare detailed project schedules across all phases.
• Develop strategies and systems to monitor and track progress.
• Perform schedule analysis including identifying critical paths and proposing mitigation strategies.
• Actively participate in routine virtual/in-person/hybrid meetings.

General Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, web design, or related field and 2 years of experience as a professional developer.
• US Citizenship.
• Skills in development technologies including HTML, CSS, JSON, and API usage.
• Strong understanding of front-end coding and development technologies.
• Proficient understanding of client-side scripting such as JavaScript.
• Familiarity with server-side languages such as Python and PHP.
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues.
• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process.
• Knowledge of accessibility issues for users with disabilities.
• Experience maintaining and troubleshooting existing web applications and sites.
• Excellent analytical and multitasking skills.
• Demonstrated ability to learn quickly and apply new methods and tools.
• Excellent written/oral communication skills.
• Desire to work in a team-centric environment.

Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration.

About APL:
The Applied Physics Laboratory is a research unit at the University of Washington. Our research expertise is in ocean physics and engineering, ocean and medical acoustics and imaging, polar science, environmental remote sensing, and signal processing.

DEI:
Diversity is a core value at the University of Washington and the Applied Physics Laboratory shares this commitment.

Application Process:
The application process may include the completion of a variety of online assessments.

Committed to attracting and retaining a diverse staff, the University of Washington will honor your experiences, perspectives and unique identity.

To request disability accommodation in the application process, contact the Disability Services Office at 206-543-6450 or

Applicants considered for this position will be required to disclose if they are the subject of any substantiated findings or current investigations related to sexual misconduct at their current employment and past employment.