Courseware Developer

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The University offers a competitive benefits package that includes excellent healthcare and tuition benefits for employees and their families, generous retirement benefits, a wide variety of professional development opportunities, supportive work and family benefits, a wealth of health and wellness programs and resources, and much more.

Posted Job Title
Courseware Developer

Job Profile Title
Application Developer C

Job Description Summary
The Penn Libraries' Educational Technology and Learning Management group is seeking a creative early career developer to join our team. In this role, you will lead the development, monitoring, customizations, integrations, and ongoing maintenance of applications in Canvas, the University's Learning Management System (LMS). You will write, document, test, and debug code for new and existing applications as well as develop and improve integrations with technical/administrative systems. Adherence to technical quality assurance, data integrity, and security standards is a must, and candidates who are passionate about programming innovative solutions to advance Penn's academic mission are strongly encouraged to apply.

Job Description
This position will report to the Assistant Director, who maintains a portfolio of software tools and applications that support large-scale, high-volume services in support of teaching and learning.

Duties include:

• Developing, documenting, and maintaining custom Canvas tools and integrations.
• Creating administrative tools and reporting dashboards for Canvas to improve overall system management.
• Using the Canvas API to extract data for troubleshooting and reporting purposes.
• Providing technical expertise on Canvas releases and third party tool integrations.
• Collaborating with groups like the Courseware Advisory, Canvas Documentation Editorial Board, and Next Generation Student System Team.
• Advising on technical projects for the Educational Technology and Learning Management group.
• Engaging in professional associations, consortia and technology groups (IMS Global Learning Consortium, Educause, Canvas Community) to keep abreast of emerging trends in learning technology and development practices.
• Performing other duties as assigned.

Qualifications: Bachelor's degree and 1-2 years of programming or systems analysis experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience. An understanding of programming languages, user interfaces, integration methods, and development lifecycles. The ideal candidate will have experience with the Canvas or another LMS, demonstrated technical abilities, a strong customer-service orientation, and excellent writing and interpersonal communication skills.

Required: Thorough understanding of REST and ability to write programs which interoperate with REST APIs in Python, Ruby, Java, or similar languages. Experience with Javascript, HTML, and CSS. Working knowledge of source code management tools like Git or Subversion.

Preferred: Demonstrated experience developing web application frameworks like Django and Rails. Experience with Ruby preferred as well as using Bootstrap, and developing integrations and tools using the LTI standard are all highly desirable. Programming experience in a higher education or a library environment strongly preferred.

*** REQUIRED*** Please submit a resume and cover letter as one attachment when applying.

Job Location - City, State
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Department / School
University Library

Pay Range
$50,684.00 - $138,391.00

Affirmative Action Statement
Penn adheres to a policy that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, citizenship status, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected class.

Special Requirements
Background check required after a conditional job offer is made. Consideration of the background check will be tailored to the requirements of the job.


To apply, visit https://wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recruiting/upenn/careers-at-penn/job/Van-Pelt-Library/Application-Administrator---Systems-Analyst---Learning-Management-System_JR00025919





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