Wisconet Web Developer

About the role

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is seeking an experienced meteorological web developer to join the Wisconsin Environmental Mesonet (Wisconet) team. Wisconet is a network of 80 weather and soil monitoring stations providing data to a diverse group of end users.

Responsibilities

• Serves as a subject matter expert, consultant, and main point of contact for internal and external stakeholders regarding website and application options, design, maintenance, and support
• Investigates, resolves, and recommends solutions to website problems and performance issues such as speed of access
• Contributes to website strategy and recommends changes to leadership
• Maintains website use and trends, status of projects, and reviews work for completion/quality
• Evaluates and implements open source and commercial products to meet project needs
• Designs, develops, and deploys web applications and integrates databases based on relevant website coding scripts

Requirements

• At least 18 months building web applications using React and Tailwind CSS for a mesonet or other environmental measurement network
• At least 18 months experience creating weather and environmental data visualizations
• Experience with RESTful APIs and other data acquisition techniques to retrieve data from providers
• Experience with frontend mapping tools like MapBox
• Experience with frontend data visualization tools such as Recharts, D3, or HighCharts
• Knowledge of user-experience (UX) and user-centered design

Qualifications

• Familiarity with versioning applications such as Git or SVN
• Experience developing websites to meet WCAG AA accessibility standards
• Experience engaging with stakeholders
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Fascination with learning new tools, languages, philosophies, and workflows

Skills

Not specified

Benefits

Not specified

Pay

Starting salary will be based on experience and skills. Well-qualified applicants can anticipate receiving a minimum offer of $75,000. Employees in this position can expect to receive benefits such as generous vacation, holidays, and paid time off; competitive insurances and savings accounts; retirement benefits.

Schedule

Full-time, 100% with a scheduled end date of December 31, 2027. This position may have the possibility to be extended or converted to an ongoing appointment based on need and/or funding.

This position will primarily work onsite and have the ability to work up to two days per week remotely. Remote work requires an approved remote work agreement (RWA).

An RWA requires the successful candidate to possess their own high-speed internet and phone to perform the work on a university provided computer. Per University policy, transportation between home and assigned work location is not payable/reimbursable and will be at the expense of the employee.

Contact Information

Heather Heimbecker, HR Manager
hheimbecker@wisc.edu