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, click here.

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 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 and track progress, maintain a working schedule and adjust as needed, and contribute to effective decision-making, ensuring that technical details are considered appropriately and decisions facilitate product quality and timely delivery.
• Perform schedule analysis including identifying critical paths and proposing mitigation strategies to execute program milestones. Escalate risks, issues, and key decisions; document these items; manage risks and issues as needed.
• Actively participate in routine virtual/in-person/hybrid meetings to apprise the project team of progress.

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, and JavaScript frameworks.
• Familiarity with server-side languages such as Python and PHP.
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them.
• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development, and deployment).
• Knowledge of accessibility issues for users with disabilities, familiarity with accessibility standards and best practices, and experience designing and testing for accessibility.
• 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.
• Demonstrated ability to work with minimal supervision: both independently and as part of a team.
• Excellent written/oral communication skills and ability to interact professionally and respectfully with diverse users.
• 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. We conduct research and development that is sponsored by a variety of federal and state agencies and take great pride in our long-standing status as a US Navy-designated University Affiliated Research Center (UARC). Our work takes place not only on the University of Washington campus and medical centers, but in field locations around the world – at sea, in the air, and on polar ice caps. We apply rigorous scientific inquiry and engineering excellence in pursuit of solutions to important problems for the good of our region, nation, and world.
DEI:
Diversity is a core value at the University of Washington and the Applied Physics Laboratory shares this commitment. We are focused on building and sustaining an inclusive and equitable research environment for all students, staff, and collaborators. We believe every member of our team enriches our community by exposing us to a broad range of ways to understand and engage with the world, identify challenges, and discover, design, and deliver solutions.
Application Process:
The application process may include the 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.

Committed to attracting and retaining a diverse staff, the University of Washington will honor your experiences, perspectives and unique identity. Together, our community strives to create and maintain working and learning environments that are inclusive, equitable and welcoming.

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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. Disclosure is required under Washington state law .