Full Stack Developer - Digital Solutions Team | Marketing & Communications
- Employer
- University of Virginia
- Location
- Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
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- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Institution Type
- Four-Year Institution
Job Details
With seven or more years of professional experience, this developer brings deep technical fluency, sound engineering judgment, and the ability to own complex work end to end. They operate with confidence in modern JavaScript frameworks, understand the full lifecycle of a production web feature, and engage as a collaborative technical peer — not just an executor of tasks.
About the Digital Solutions Team
Our team operates using a product-led model focused on UVA Health's digital front door and the end-to-end digital patient experience. We are responsible for the strategy, user experience, and technologies that support and power UVA Health's digital ecosystem. We prioritize initiatives that advance:
Patient acquisition
Frictionless patient experience
Long-term patient loyalty
Operational efficiency
Department-wide marketing technology
Key Responsibilities
Feature Development & Technical Ownership
Deliver sprint stories from branch to production — including implementation, documentation, and full adherence to the team's definition of done.
Design and build performant, accessible, and maintainable front-end solutions using React and Astro.
Work with headless CMS architecture (Contentstack) to implement and extend content-driven web experiences.
Make sound, independent implementation decisions on well-scoped stories; escalate architectural questions appropriately within the Digital Solutions team.
Proactively identify technical risk within sprint stories during planning.
Ensure all delivered work meets accessibility standards (ADA/WCAG) and SEO best practices.
Code Quality & Engineering Standards
Write clean, well-structured, and well-documented code that other developers can maintain.
Write unit and integration tests as a first-class part of delivery.
Submit pull requests with clear context: what changed, why, and what to look for in review.
Engage substantively in code review — both giving and receiving. At this experience level, code review contributions are expected to improve team quality, not just catch bugs.
Maintain awareness of the codebase beyond your own stories; surface patterns, inconsistencies, or growing technical debt.
Collaboration & Team Contribution
Acts as a consultant with internal stakeholders, internal Scrum team, and external vendors to develop solutions meeting their needs.
Participate fully in sprint ceremonies — planning, standup, refinement, review, and retrospective.
Communicate blockers the day they emerge; the team cannot help with what it cannot see.
Pull from the sprint backlog proactively.
Collaborate directly with the UX Designer to understand design intent and flag implementation feasibility concerns before stories are finalized.
Seek clarification from the Product Owner on acceptance criteria before building on assumptions.
Pair with other developers on high-complexity problems; bring experience to those conversations, not just questions.
Technical Growth & Knowledge Sharing
Stay current with the evolving JavaScript ecosystem, particularly React and Astro; bring informed recommendations to the team when technology shifts are worth evaluating.
Contribute to shared knowledge — document decisions, share context in PR descriptions, and engage in team learning.
Take on stories of increasing complexity sprint over sprint; this role should not be static.
Required Qualifications
Seven years of professional web development experience, with a strong front-end foundation.
Deep proficiency in modern JavaScript (ES2020+), HTML5, and CSS — understanding of what the language does, not just how to use it.
Hands-on production experience with React, including component architecture, state management, hooks, and performance considerations.
Experience with Astro or comparable static-site/hybrid rendering frameworks (Next.js, Nuxt, SvelteKit); Astro experience is a strong differentiator.
Experience working with headless CMS platforms — Contentstack, Contentful, Sanity, or equivalent.
Strong Git proficiency: branching strategies, pull request workflows, rebasing, and collaborative development on shared codebases.
Demonstrated ability to deliver accessible (WCAG 2.1 AA), performant, and cross-browser-compatible web experiences at production scale.
Experience with build tooling and the broader front-end ecosystem: Vite, Webpack, npm/yarn, linting, formatting, and CI integration.
Ability to write and maintain meaningful test coverage — unit, integration, and basic end-to-end.
Strong engineering communication: can articulate tradeoffs, document decisions, and give useful code review feedback.
Experience working within Agile/Scrum delivery teams.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or a related field.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with TypeScript in a production codebase.
Familiarity with web performance optimization techniques: Core Web Vitals, lazy loading, code splitting, image optimization.
Experience with Contentstack specifically — content modeling, content delivery APIs, and front-end integration patterns.
Familiarity with platforms such as Epic, Kyruus, or Coveo in a web integration context.
Experience in healthcare, academic medicine, or other regulated digital environments.
Exposure to CI/CD pipeline configuration and deployment process ownership.
Familiarity with Salesforce Marketing Cloud for email and campaign integration.
Success Measures
Success in this role will be measured by:
Reliable, high-quality sprint delivery — stories completed against acceptance criteria without rework cycles.
Proactive risk communication — technical concerns surfaced in planning or standup, not at review.
Substantive code review participation — contributions that improve team output, not just approvals.
Test coverage discipline — delivered work includes meaningful tests as a matter of course.
Increasing story complexity and ownership over time — this role grows, not plateaus.
Effective collaboration with Dev Team, UX Designer, and Product Owner across the full delivery cycle.
Physical Demands & Work Location
This is primarily a sedentary role involving extensive use of desktop computers. This position currently requires on-site presence in the Charlottesville office at least two days per week. Some travel to attend meetings or programs may occasionally be required.
The University of Virginia, including the UVA Health System which represents the UVA Medical Center, Schools of Medicine and Nursing, UVA Physician’s Group, and the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, is fundamentally committed to the diversity of our faculty and staff. We believe diversity is excellence expressing itself through every person’s perspectives and lived experiences. We are equal opportunity and affirmative action employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, veteran status, and family medical or genetic information.
The pay range for this role is $70,600.00 - $141,201.00 annually. Individual compensation will be determined by the selected candidate's qualifications, previous work experience, and/or education.Benefits- Comprehensive Benefits Package: Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Paid Time Off, Long-term and Short-term Disability, Retirement Savings
- Health Saving Plans, and Flexible Spending Accounts
- Certification and education support
- Generous Paid Time Off
The University of Virginia is an equal opportunity employer. All interested persons are encouraged to apply, including veterans and individuals with disabilities. Learn more about UVA’s commitment to non-discrimination and equal opportunity employment.
Organization
In 1819, the University of Virginia established a new model for intellectual exchange and cross-disciplinary collaboration in higher education. Two hundred years later, as a major research institution, we continue to challenge conventions, lead with ingenuity and advance knowledge for the common good.
What began as an innovative idea has become one of the nation’s leading public research universities, with over 21,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional students. UVA also has over 3,000 full-time faculty offering more than 400 degrees.
Each of the University’s eleven schools has its own distinctive mission, working together to garner consistently high rankings—including #2 Best Value Public College (Princeton Review, 2016), #3 Public University in the Nation (U.S. News & World Report, 2016), and #3 Best Value Among Public Colleges (Kiplinger’s, 2016).
As we invest in and strengthen our research capabilities, UVA seeks new faculty ready to uncover new insights, rewrite old rules and collaborate on intellectual discoveries.
RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS THAT CROSS DISCIPLINES
As an R1 institution, the University’s research centers, consortia and laboratories are on the leading edge of discovery and technology, offering collaborative spaces for students and faculty to solve global problems.
Our professors are recognized members of major national scholarly and professional organizations, including the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Our faculty’s engagement in interdisciplinary research is being facilitated by new research institutes specializing in everything from big data to brain functioning, and by cluster hires across schools.
NATIONALLY RANKED HEALTH SYSTEM
UVA is also home to a nationally renowned academic medical center and the UVA Health System, which serves a three-part mission to treat patients, conduct translational research and train medical practitioners in a wide variety of disciplines.
Established as the nation’s 10th medical school in 1825, the institution has since grown to include a 612-bed hospital and a Level I trauma center, nationally recognized cancer and heart centers, a Children’s Hospital, and primary and specialty clinics throughout Central Virginia.
The UVA Medical Center is consistently ranked among the nation’s best hospitals by the U.S. News & World Report magazine and has been named among the top 25 percent in seven specialties.
INSPIRING STUDENTS, INSPIRED TEACHING
The vast majority of UVA students come from the top 10% of their high school class, as well as from all 50 states, over 142 countries and a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds. Despite their diversity, all UVA students share a love of learning and a drive to achieve.
One of the reasons students choose Virginia is our unique residential culture. At UVA, the community of students, faculty and staff personifies the Jeffersonian idea that living and learning are connected. The Academical Village was constructed to support a unique residential experience, with faculty living in the Pavilions, students occupying Lawn rooms and the world-famous Rotunda at its heart. The University’s residential culture continues to support this experience today—strengthened by students, faculty and staff rich in backgrounds, ideas and perspectives. Our unique culture is also paying dividends in innovation: UVA’s faculty have generated more than 130 patents since 2010.
Perhaps most importantly, faculty come to UVA knowing that instruction is as important as research, and they pride themselves on their many teaching awards. Our best professors look for ways to encourage, mentor and develop tomorrow’s leaders inside and outside the classroom.
LIFE IN CHARLOTTESVILLE
Living in Charlottesville you’ll find sophisticated restaurants, world-renowned wineries and breweries, cosmopolitan arts and music, friendly urban and suburban neighborhoods and a Piedmont landscape that has lured adventurous souls for centuries. No wonder the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research named Charlottesville the “happiest city in America” in 2014.
In addition to UVA and its health system, several major employers have facilities in Charlottesville, including State Farm, Northrop Grumman, the U.S. Department of Defense, GE and others. Charlottesville is also becoming a center for innovative start-up businesses. The University also actively helps spouses and partners of faculty members build their networks and pursue employment opportunities with a wide variety of area employers.
The University of Virginia is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All interested persons are encouraged to apply including veterans and individuals with disabilities.
- Telephone
- 434-985-4532
- Location
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2420 Old Ivy
Charlottesvle
Virginia
22911-7433
United States
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