Req #: 237321
Department: APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY
Posting Date: 07/29/2024
Closing Info: Open Until Filled
Salary: $7,000 - $8,500 per month
Shift: First Shift
Notes: 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, click here. (https://hr.uw.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/02/benefits-professional-staff-librarians-academic-staff-20230119_a11y.pdf)
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.
UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities, and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty.
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.
See Yourself at APL (https://seeyourselfapl.uw.edu/) as a member of the APL-UW Communications and Information Services team! 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 Position:
We are looking for a creative, skilled website developer who can bridge the arts of design and software engineering. The incumbent will work with a team of graphic designers, content creators, videographers, and software engineers, and together, the team is charged with recasting the Laboratory’s public website to be as engaging, dynamic, and impactful as the people and research programs of APL-UW.
The Web Developer, collaborating with the designers and engineers, will be responsible for the implementation of a new front-end design vision driven by a backend support structure composed of both new and existing components. 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. This position will need to stay up-to-date on emerging technologies and will suggest how they can be incorporated to enhance content impact and improve the users’ experience.
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
The responsibilities of this role will include collaborating with the team to translate design storyboards and wireframes to code and producing visual elements and functionality for the website. Your work will bridge the gap between graphical design and technical implementation. This position is expected to take an active role on both sides to plan, execute, and assess the website’s aesthetics and functionality.
Web Developer Responsibilities:
As a Web Developer, your responsibilities will include:
Website Development:
• Oversee, manage, and improve websites by developing new user-facing and mobile-based features. Manage and be an active contributor to the entire web development process through the design, development, and deployment phases.
• 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 and collaborate with software engineers to improve existing code and its design.
• Validate the technical feasibility of website designs, while also applying best practices in designing and testing for accessibility.
• Conduct thorough testing of user interfaces in multiple platforms to ensure all designs render correctly and systems function properly.
• 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 an
Location: Seattle, WA
Posted: Aug. 11, 2024, 12:58 p.m.
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