Senior Software Developer/Analyst, School of Law

About the role

The University of Texas School of Law seeks a Senior Software Developer/Analyst to join its dedicated web team. This position involves designing, developing, testing, and maintaining Law School websites and software applications across the full development stack.

Responsibilities

• Designs, develops, and maintains responsive websites and applications, working across front-end and back-end components while collaborating with the web team, Law School Communications and Marketing office, and other stakeholders.
• Performs quality assurance (QA) testing during staging and after deployment, identifying and resolving cross-browser issues and other defects.
• Develops and performs maintenance on the Law School’s WordPress Multisite installation, including custom Site Editor themes and plugins using PHP, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, using clean, reusable code and following modern development practices.
• Keeps WordPress core and plugins current and secure.
• Fields incoming website-related help requests from Law School faculty, staff, and students, troubleshooting issues and connecting requesters with the right solution or resource.
• Stays current on standards and trends in web development, including HTML, CSS, scripting languages, browser compatibility, and accessibility, and actively pursues new skills to keep pace with evolving web technology.
• Other related responsibilities, functions, and projects as assigned.

Requirements

• Minimum of five years of web or related software development experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Familiarity with data security and privacy best practices.
• Advanced experience with PHP and JavaScript.
• Experience with WordPress custom theme and plugin development.
• Practical knowledge of relational databases and use of SQL.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Experience with PHP frameworks (especially Laravel) and JavaScript frameworks and libraries (e.g., VueJS, React, etc.), distributed version control workflows (e.g., git), and working with MySQL and Oracle SQL databases.
• Understanding of Unix-based infrastructure, web server technology, and shell scripting.
• Experience in higher education or similarly complex institutional environments with distributed stakeholders, shared governance, and regulatory requirements (FERPA, WCAG/ADA).

Salary

$90,000 + depending on qualifications

Working Conditions

• Hybrid work environment with on-site collaboration as business needs require.
• Repetitive use of a keyboard and computer.
• Work performed on concurrent projects with rigid deadlines.

Required Materials

• Resume/CV including a listing of professional projects that detail your role for that project.
• 3 work references with their contact information; at least one reference should be from a supervisor.
• Letter of interest.

Important for applicants who are NOT current university employees or contingent workers:

• You will be prompted to submit your resume the first time you apply, then you will be provided an option to upload a new Resume for subsequent applications.
• Any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) will be uploaded in the Application Questions section; you will be able to multi-select additional files.
• Before submitting your online job application, ensure that ALL Required Materials have been uploaded.
• Once your job application has been submitted, you cannot make changes.

Important for Current university employees and contingent workers:

• As a current university employee or contingent worker, you MUST apply within Workday by searching for Find UT Jobs.
• If you are a current University employee, log-in to Workday, navigate to your Worker Profile, click the Career link in the left hand navigation menu and then update the sections in your Professional Profile before you apply.
• This information will be pulled in to your application. The application is one page and you will be prompted to upload your resume.
• In addition, you must respond to the application questions presented to upload any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) that were noted above.

Employment Eligibility

• Regular staff who have been employed in their current position for the last six continuous months are eligible for openings being recruited for through University-Wide or Open Recruiting, to include both promotional opportunities and lateral transfers.
• Staff who are promotion/transfer eligible may apply for positions without supervisor approval.

Retirement Plan Eligibility

• The retirement plan for this position is Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS), subject to the position being at least 20 hours per week and at least 135 days in length.

Background Checks

• A criminal history background check will be required for finalist(s) under consideration for this position.

Equal Opportunity Employer

• The University of Texas at Austin, as an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, complies with all applicable federal and state laws regarding nondiscrimination and affirmative action.

Pay Transparency

• The University of Texas at Austin will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.

Employment Eligibility Verification

• If hired, you will be required to complete the federal Employment Eligibility Verification I-9 form.
• You will be required to present acceptable and original documents to prove your identity and authorization to work in the United States.
• Documents need to be presented no later than the third day of employment.
• Failure to do so will result in loss of employment at the university.

E-Verify

• The University of Texas at Austin use E-Verify to check the work authorization of all new hires effective May 2015.

Compliance

• Employees may be required to report violations of law under Title IX and the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act).
• If this position is identified a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified and provided resources for reporting.