Application Developer

Description:

• Well-qualified applicants will be immediately.
• Position may be 100% remote.
• Please contact internal recruiter with any questions at rmckinney2@ucmerced.edu
• Generous amount of paid time off.
• Affordable health care benefits that start on day one (vision and dental coverage free for the whole family)
• You will love working for a noble mission rather than the shareholder profit motive!

The University of California, Merced, is the newest of the University of California system's 10 campuses and the first American research university built in the 21st century. With more than 9,000 undergraduate and graduate students, UC Merced offers an environment that combines a commitment to diversity, inclusion, collaboration, and professional development. With bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs, strong research and academic partnerships, and community involvement, the UC Merced campus is continually evolving and requires talented, knowledgeable, and dynamic educators, researchers, management and staff.

Ranked among the best public universities in the nation by U.S. News and World Report, UC Merced is uniquely equipped to provide educational opportunities for highly qualified students from the San Joaquin Valley and throughout California. The campus enjoys a special connection with nearby Yosemite National Park, is on the cutting edge of sustainability in construction and design and supports the economic development of Merced and the region.

In Fall 2016, UC Merced broke ground on a $1.3 billion public-private partnership that is unprecedented in higher education. The Merced 2020 Project nearly doubled the physical capacity of the campus, enhancing academic distinction, student success and research excellence. In 2018, UC Merced opened the Downtown Campus Center, a $33 million, three-story administrative building located in the heart of Merced.

To set the course of UC Merced’s evolution, in 2021 UC Merced will enact its first-ever 10-year strategic plan. This plan will guide how the values of equity and justice influence our pathway toward earning Carnegie R1 research status, growing enrollment, upholding our identity as a minority-serving institution, and operationalizing how commitments to equity, diversity and inclusion are enacted within each campus unit. UC Merced is expected to engage in sophisticated thinking, planning, and implementation of actions that effectively diversify the professoriate and staff, improve campus climate for all campus constituency groups, and strengthen our equity, diversity, and inclusion infrastructure and capacity.

We seek a creative back-end web application developer to join our application development team. You will be responsible for building and maintaining server-side operation and functionality of web applications. You must possess experience working with one or more of these frameworks Spring Boot, .Net, Node.js. Your main tasks will include developing and maintaining our database layer, APIs, and other web services. Successful candidates will be able to demonstrate knowledge and experience in modern programming languages such as Java, Ruby, Python, and industry tools such as Postman, SendGrid, Twilio, BugSnag, Jira, Confluence, GitHub, AWS, and Cloudflare. As a Back-end Developer, you will work closely with three other developers and end-users across UC Merced business and academic enterprises.

The role's central focus will be to design and implement strategies to elevate the user experience that helps meet the mission and strategic vision of the organization. To further ensure success as a Developer, you will need to exhibit advanced application architecture skills and extensive industry knowledge. An outstanding Developer will be someone who can transform developmental needs into human-centered, intuitive, effective and sustainable digital experiences.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Applies advanced software concepts to plan, designs, develops, modifies, debugs, deploys and evaluates highly complex software for functional areas. Analyzes existing highly complex software or works to formulate logic and devises algorithms for new highly complex software systems. Performs highly complex data analysis and tests / debugs highly complex software, working directly with management and customers. Initiates, analyzes, designs and applies highly complex data sources. Applies and enforces complex programming security practices.

• Specifies, develops and executes complex test plans. Develops conversion and system implementation plans. Performs or directs highly complex data modeling, performance and integration testing and builds interfaces. Determines source code control techniques and configuration management design and changes.

• Prepares and approves or obtains approval for system and programming documentation. Initiates and oversees changes in development, maintenance and system standards. Sets the technical requirements for complex software specifications.

• Researches and applies industry practices, community standards and department policies and procedures in depth. May serve as technical lead for multiple software development projects of moderate to broad scope. May lead a team of software development professionals. Enforces project plans.

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