Full Stack Web Developer

Company: California Institute of Applied Technology
Industry: Programming
Location: USA

<p>Description</p>
<p><em><strong>Work from Home (WFH)</strong></em><em> - </em><em><strong>Remote work must be performed while residing in New Mexico, Florida or Massachusetts</strong></em></p>
<p><strong>CIAT Location:</strong> San Diego, CA and Albuquerque, NM</p>
<p><strong>Reports to: </strong>VP of Information Technology</p>
<p><strong>Status:</strong> Exempt</p>
<p><strong>Employment Type:</strong> Full-time</p>
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<p><strong>Summary</strong></p>
<p>The Full Stack Web Developer at CIAT is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining modern web applications that power our student experience, marketing funnels, and internal operations. They work across the entire stack (front end, back end, databases, and integrations) to deliver secure, scalable, and responsive solutions that support CIAT’s growth and innovation goals in career-focused higher education. This role collaborates closely with the CIAT Marketing department and IT stakeholders to translate business requirements into reliable web-based solutions, continuously iterating based on data and user feedback to improve performance, usability, and conversion outcomes.</p>
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<p><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></p>
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<li>Develop, maintain, and optimize web applications using PHP/Laravel, WordPress, and NodeJS</li>
<li>Collaborate with business stakeholders, graphic designers, QA, and other team members to define requirements, design solutions, and deliver new features</li>
<li>Troubleshoot, profile, and optimize code to ensure high performance, stability, and security</li>
<li>Write clean, well-structured, and well-documented code; actively participate in code reviews</li>
<li>Monitor application health, identify bottlenecks or bugs, and implement timely fixes</li>
<li>First point of contact for change requests and enhancements on ciat.edu and CIAT web properties including content updates, images, menu changes, digital assets, new page layouts, new features, and accessibility features</li>
<li>Create responsive and interactive web pages that align with CIAT brand guidelines</li>
<li>Ensure all ciat.edu website pages and content remain editable in version control tools for collaborative team maintenance</li>
<li>Collaborate closely with our in-house and third-party development team members to triage, delegate, and test new web changes</li>
<li>Gather project requirements outlined by department stakeholders and provide time estimates to scope web projects for implementation</li>
<li>Accurately implement design specifications and work collaboratively with the marketing team to optimize the user experience within time, budget, and business constraints</li>
<li>Monitor web analytics and real-time visitor monitoring tools to recommend improvements in web accessibility, functionality, or new feature deployment</li>
<li>Communicate effectively and professionally with internal teams and vendors</li>
<li>Utilize critical thinking and problem-solving skills to outline programmatic solutions for solving critical business challenges</li>
<li>Stay up to date with emerging tools, libraries, frameworks, and industry trends; proactively suggest improvements</li>
<li>Adhere to CIAT’s compliance requirements to ensure all Federal, State, accreditation, and institutional policies and procedures are being met</li>
<li>Contribute to team effort by accomplishing results as needed</li>
<li>Embody CIAT’s mission, vision, purpose and values</li>
<li>Ensure a safe, secure, and ethical work environment</li>
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<p>Requirements</p>
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<li>Bachelor’s degree in software development, web development, computer science, or related industry experience</li>
<li>7+ years of web programming experience in professional business environments</li>
<li>7+ years of experience with version control tools such as Git, to collaborate with a multi-person development team</li>
<li>Advanced expertise in PHP/Laravel, including complex Eloquent relationships, service container usage, event-driven design, and queue orchestration required</li>
<li>Experience with backend languages, such as Rust, or exposure to systems-oriented development in Go or Python preferred.</li>
<li>Familiarity with Microsoft Power Pages preferred</li>
<li>Strong proficiency in WordPress, building and maintaining scalable solutions such as multisite or headless implementations, with deep REST API customization and effective caching strategies</li>
<li>Strong proficiency in Node.js, including service-oriented architecture, real-time features (WebSockets), and performance profiling in production environments</li>
<li>Strong proficiency with front-end development, with deep knowledge of JavaScript (ES6+) and CSS (including preprocessors such as SASS or LESS), and production experience with at least one major framework (React or Vue.js)</li>
<li>Demonstrable experience designing and optimizing relational database schemas (MySQ…