An exciting opportunity for the university, the School of Medicine (opens new window), the Web Department and (maybe) you! As the School of Medicine Web team expands we are in need of a full-time frontend developer.

Some background

Our department sits in the central Marketing office and is responsible for most all public facing websites on campus over the last eleven years. Our sites are built using an in-house content management system, and others, on the LAMP stack while using Foundation for Sites (opens new window) on the frontend. Most all School of Medicine websites are currently also built on these tools with the exception of the homepage, which is Wordpress based.

School of Medicine

We care a lot about our tooling, processes and ensuring developer success. We adhere to code guidelines and always looking to standardize common code to allow us to focus on the unique areas that matter. This position is unique as the School of Medicine website is in transition. The website is newly launched in Wordpress on Bootstrap with a number of legacy sites built without a frontend framework. The team is being integrated into the central web team and transitioning to standard university tools and frontend framework.

Primary responsibilities

• Experience collaborating throughout the entire project cycle, from research, strategy, information architecture, visual design, front-end development and maintenance.
• A solid grasp of modern front-end web development, such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript and their associated build components.
• Experience using a front-end web framework such as Foundation or Bootstrap.
• An understanding of back-end web development environments, including HTTP, web servers, load balancers, the interpretation layer, databases and associated web frameworks.
• Considerable skill in writing web applications that retrieve and update information in relational web centric databases (using Wordpress or Laravel).
• The ability to clearly communicate to project stakeholders and process feedback internally and externally.
• The ability to troubleshoot website layout and web application performance issues and resolve issues independently or direct issues to the responsible party.
• Provide direct supervision to internal web site interns and guidance to unit web site content authors.
• Ability to work with accuracy and attention to detail to meet deadlines.
• Ability to understand and execute oral and written instructions, policies, and procedures.
• Considerable project management skills, including ability to provide time estimates and prepare accurate records and reports.
• Proficiency in the use of web applications programming languages, tools, and/or methodologies for developing integrated web applications typically acquired through formal education or equivalent experience in web application development.
• Demonstrated ability in analyzing customer requirements and developing basic information systems solutions typically acquired through one to two years of directly related experience in web application development and support.
• The ability to translate functional requirements into cross-browser WCAG 2.0 compliant websites.
• Strong understanding of web technologies and related user device capabilities required to access the web.
• Understanding of test driven development.

How to apply

Apply at jobs.wayne.edu (opens new window). Posting #042095