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FULL-STACK WEB DEVELOPER, WBUR Product

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Boston University
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BOSTON, Massachusetts, United States

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FULL-STACK WEB DEVELOPER, WBUR Product

Tracking Code6329Job Description

We are seeking a Full-Stack Web Developer to join WBUR's Product Team of developers and product managers. The role is to develop, maintain, and expand the technologies that power our digital journalism on wbur.org, within our mobile app, and across our emerging digital distribution platforms. The ideal candidate has experience working with a wide variety of digital technologies, a passion for journalism and public media, and a desire to build the future for WBUR. This role is a mix of tactical, hands-on, urgent work and longer-term, strategic, impactful development integrations and enhancements. The ideal candidate has strong interpersonal skills, is collaborative, and can build trust and rapport across the organization. You are focused on the audience and care deeply about how design, engineering, and product decisions contribute to creating a seamless and engaging audience experience. This position has the ability to be hybrid.

Required Skills

Please include a cover letter with your resume indicating how your experience aligns with this position. Submission without a cover letter will not be considered.

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience developing web applications and digital products in an agile environment.
  • 3+ years' back-end programming experience working with PHP and or NodeJS.
  • 3+ years' front-end programming experience using modern javascript frameworks (e.g., React, Vue), including an understanding of ES6 principles.
  • Strong fluency with HTML/CSS, including knowledge of CSS preprocessors (e.g., LESS, SCSS).
  • Experience in modern web development, especially package management (e.g., NPM, Yum, Grunt, Gulp, or Webpack).
  • Experience working with Linux CLI and using CLI version control tools (e.g., Git).
  • Experience working with CMS platforms, particularly Wordpress headless; Wordpress plugin development and experience with Laraval/Lumen, a plus.
  • Experience working in a local development environment using virtual machines/containers (e.g., Vagrant, Ansible, Docker).
  • Knowledge of building, implementing, and consuming/integrating RESTful APIs.
  • Knowledge of basic DevOps, working with common software stacks (e.g., Nginx, PHP-FPM, Node/PM2, Varnish)

Additional Skills:

  • Familiarity with Google Analytics, Tag Manager, and DFP or other common 3rd party analytics tools, a plus.
  • Familiarity with UI/UX design, a plus.
  • Familiarity with live streaming systems and protocols (e.g., Icecast, StreamGuys, Megaphone) and audio processing technologies (e.g., ffmpeg, audio transcoding), a plus.
  • Familiarity or experience with news/publishing/media organizations, a plus.

This position is eligible for Boston University's generous benefits package including health, dental, life insurance, tuition remission, paid time off, and so much more!

Please note all newly hired staff and faculty, will need to be in compliance with Boston University’s COVID-19 Vaccination and Booster Requirement within 30 days of date of hire. You must upload your vaccine documentation or request a medical or religious exemption (instructions). For further information on the University’s response to COVID-19, please visit the Back2BU site.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.

Job LocationBOSTON, Massachusetts, United StatesPosition TypeFull-Time/Regular

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As you can see below, it takes people, ideas, and a little luck (Boston, you’re our town) to make BU what it is today: one of the most dynamic universities in the world.

Celebrated thinkers: On any given day, students will find themselves mesmerized by Nobel Prize winners, a poet laureate, and the first biomedical engineer ever to receive a MacArthur Foundation “Genius Award,” among others.

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