Full Stack Application Developer

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 build stronger minds and a healthier world.

UW is committed to attracting and retaining a diverse staff, your experiences, perspectives and unique identities will be honored at the University of Washington. Together, our community strives to create and maintain working and learning environments that are inclusive, equitable, and welcoming.

UW Information Technology (UW-IT) is the central information technology organization for the University of Washington, responsible for strategic planning, oversight, and direction of the UW's IT infrastructure, resources, and services. UW-IT provides critical technology support to all three campuses, UW medical centers, and research operations around the world.

UW-IT partners with the UW community to enable innovation, learning, discovery, and service. The Administrative Systems (AS) unit within the UW-IT Data & Applications division supports core university operations with enterprise-class integrated applications. AS collaborates with business experts, internal and unit technical partners to deliver and maintain dependable systems that support core business functionality and adherence to compliance requirements.

We build applications on enterprise-class infrastructure that is scalable and sustainable. The products work across major platforms and are designed to be accessible, user-friendly, standards-compliant, fault-tolerant, recoverable, and auditable.

UW-IT is currently looking for a Full-Stack Developer who will support the Administrative Systems team.

The Full Stack Developer works with a small team of engineers and architects and is responsible for collaboration within the team, with other units within UW-IT, and business partners. This position also collaborates with peers and others to improve practices, processes, tools for development, testing, versioning, continuous integration, automated release, deployment of service changes, and operations and monitoring. The person in this position is expected to contribute ideas and data to inform strategy and promote learning and continual improvement.

REQUIREMENTS:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Technology, or Engineering, or a related field.

A minimum of four years' experience performing progressively more complex and responsible tasks involving development and support of enterprise applications and services.

Proficiency in C# .NET and .NET Framework.

Proficiency in SQL server, such as writing complex SQL Queries, table design and normalization.

Experience in .NET Core, ASP.NET Core

Experience in web programming languages, technologies and frameworks, such as HTML5, AJAX, JavaScript, jQuery, Json, and CSS.

Experience with Software Configuration Management and CI/CD (Code versioning, Branching, and Release Management), Azure DevOps/TFS or similar, e.g., GIT.

Demonstrated excellent written/oral communication skills, technical documentation skills, user liaison skills and personal interaction abilities.

DESIRED:

Excellent problem-solving skills.

Experience in troubleshooting issues on Windows OS.

Desire and ability to learn about and to support existing applications.

Understanding of how the Web works, secure design and coding practices.

Ability to quickly learn new technologies, as needed.

An effective team player skilled at collaboration.

Recent web development experience in MVC, and Web APIs.

Knowledge of IT accessibility issues for users with disabilities; familiarity with accessibility standards and best practices; experience testing for accessibility; and demonstrated ability to design content/applications with accessibility considerations.

Understanding of Design Patterns, Coding Practices, Software Architecture Patterns, and Frameworks.

Experience in Higher Education, preferably at a major research (R1) university.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

Hybrid, open office environment. (2+ days per week in office)

Working hours are normal business hours with some evening or weekend work required. On-call assignments may be required.

This is an essential position and is required to report to work remotely if UW suspends operations.

Application Process:The application process may include completion of a variety of online assessments to obtain additional information that will be used in the evaluation process. These assessments may include Work Authorization, Cover Letter and/or others.

Any assessments that you need to complete will appear on your screen as soon as you select "Apply to this position". Once you begin an assessment, it must be completed at that time; if you do not complete the assessment, you will be prompted to do so the next time you access your "My Jobs" page. If you select to take it later, it will appear on your "My Jobs" page to take when you are ready. Please note that your application will not be reviewed, and you will not be considered for this position until all required assessments have been completed.