SOFTWARE ENGINEER, ORIS: System/Application Development

University of Washington•Seattle, WA

9h•Hybrid

About The Position

The Office of Research Information Services (ORIS) has an outstanding opportunity for a JavaScript Engineer to join their team. Reporting to the IT Applications Manager, the JavaScript Engineer is responsible for ensuring efficient delivery and effective support for university research by performing systems design, development, programming, implementation, consultation, maintenance, and support for modern websites, web applications, APIs, and other research administration systems primarily on a JavaScript/TypeScript technology stack. Other essential functions include providing technical leadership and expertise for systems development colleagues and providing expert consultation to clients and systems managers. This position directly supports the mission of ORIS and thereby the 24x7 research mission of the university. This is an essential position and may be required to report to work when UW suspends operations.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science (or related field) with a minimum of 5 years of professional enterprise software engineering experience, OR 8+ years of equivalent practical experience.
Minimum 5 years of experience including: 5 years of Full stack experience designing, building, and maintaining secure, highly performant web applications and event-driven microservices using TypeScript, Angular, Node.js, PHP, and WordPress.
5 years of experience using front-end web technologies such as CSS3, HTML5, HTTP (1 and 2) protocols to develop responsive applications supporting desktop and mobile devices.
5 years’ experience developing and integrating RESTFul APIs utilizing OpenAPI Specification (Swagger).
5 years’ experience working with relational databases like MS SQL Server or MySQL or PostgreSQL and writing efficient, performant queries using database specific query languages.
3 years of experience designing, deploying, and supporting cloud-native applications on AWS using Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, CDK, or CloudFormation) and services such as EC2, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, Route53, SNS, RabbitMQ, Kafka, and OpenSearch.
3 years’ experience working with web servers like Apache, Nginx, Docker containers, and container orchestration.
1 year experience responsibly applying enterprise Generative AI, LLMs, and agentic workflows across the entire software development life cycle from prototyping through delivery.
Experience with automated testing of UI, end-to-end, and API layers using tools like Cypress, Postman, alongside performance profiling and code-tuning of enterprise applications.
Experience with source control systems for code versioning, branching strategies, code maintenance, and building CI/CD pipelines using GitHub or Bitbucket.
Experience with web applications observability and resolving production issues supported by excellent design, problem‑solving, and debugging skills.
Demonstrated ability to work independently and in agile/scrum and DevSecOps teams with a strong sense of ownership and responsibility.
Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly and effectively in both oral and written mediums with individuals and groups in order to socialize information and knowledge with a diverse group of colleagues.
Demonstrated ability in managing multiple priorities, with strong organizational, prioritization, and time management skills.
Demonstrated ease in technical and non-technical review as both reviewer and reviewee to facilitate collaborative group activities such as change control and pull request review.

Nice To Haves

Experience working with one or more modern additional high level programming languages such as Python, C# (.NET), Java.
Experience building and deploying application code components following Infrastructure as code approach using CloudFormation templates.
Experience architecting loosely coupled homo/heterogenous integrated systems following systems design principles and architectural standards.
Experience modeling objects, data, metadata, process, and/or information.
Experience with analytics services such as Google Analytics and/or Segment
Experience with accessibility standards and knowledge of best practices; experience with ARIA.
Experience with building web applications adhering to OWASP security protocols and SOC compliance standards.
Experience designing and implementing API integrations across heterogeneous systems and enterprise integration platforms like MuleSoft.
Experience deploying applications in blue/green mode.
Experience working with transactional systems generating real-time data to support business intelligence reporting.
Solid understanding of data structures, web protocols, web application architecture, RESTful API design and data flows.
Knowledge of Workday suite of applications/modules, data models, security, integrations and data load capabilities.
Knowledge of common content and data exchange formats, including Markdown, YAML, and JSON.
Working in higher education and/or research administration.

Responsibilities

Deliver secure, scalable, resilient, performant, and maintainable JavaScript/TypeScript-based web applications, APIs, microservices, databases, and cloud-native solutions within Agile/Scrum projects, adhering to industry best practices to ensure UW systems meet the needs of the UW research community.
Design, build, and evolve cloud-based applications and supporting infrastructure leveraging cloud-native architectures, source control, branching strategies, CI/CD pipelines, automation, managed services to enable reliable, compliant, performant, and cost-effective solutions delivery.
Create and update technical designs, estimates, and implementation plans that integrate information security, compliance, disaster recovery, and system observability to ensure continuous confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Drive engineering quality by writing clean, maintainable code and automated test scripts, participating in product/service team meetings, reviewing pull requests, architecture, and system design, and responsibly applying GenAI or automation tools to optimize workflows.
Communicate and collaborate across cross-functional ORIS/UW teams, documenting and presenting technical concepts, designs, risks, and progress to diverse stakeholders to align project priorities, drive decision-making, and ensure exceptional customer experiences through well-integrated solutions.
Partner with customer success, cross-functional teams to triage, troubleshoot and resolve issues across applications, integrations, cloud infrastructure services, and databases for supporting 24/7/365 availability.
Maintain system health throughout SDLC ensuring systems are secure, compliant, observable, and cost-effective.
Proactively monitor systems to improve observability, identify root causes and resolve production issues, incidents in a timely manner.
Improve system quality, stability, and operational efficiency through continuous infrastructure automation, system instrumentation, and adoption of modern engineering standards.
Support information security, business continuity, and disaster recovery objectives by operating and maintaining software and infrastructure in accordance with ORIS, UW policies and industry recommended best practices.
Engage in continuous learning, professional development, knowledge sharing, and adopting industry best practices to strengthen team and organization capabilities and capacity.
Develop familiarity with research administration in an R1 university setting to help streamline and support business processes.
Contribute to project delivery and organizational goals through active participation in planning, reviews, change management, required HR or administrative processes, and taking broader responsibilities as needed.