Full Stack Engineer

Department BSD SUR - OHNS: Thirty Million Words - Tech About the Department The TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health at the University of Chicago develops, tests, and implements evidence-based interventions designed to promote very young children’s cognitive and social-emotional development. TMW Center interventions are designed to be embedded into existing health, education, and social service systems working at scale in a given community in order to meet families where they already are. The TMW Center has a robust research and development strategy that includes further development and testing of TMW interventions; harnessing technology to support behavior change, intervention engagement, and analysis; and furthering strategies to engage parents in the TMW Center’s interventions across the health, early learning, and social service sectors. Job Summary The Full Stack Engineer performs a variety of activities relating to software support and/or development. Provides analysis, design, development, debugging, and modification of computer code for end user applications, beta general releases, web pages, and production support. Troubleshoots problems using existing procedures to find a possible solution. The TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health (TMW Center) develops, tests, and implements evidence-based interventions designed to promote very young children’s co [... source excerpt omitted ...] most UI development, our ideal candidate will bring a full-stack perspective — understanding how backend decisions affect the user experience and the overall system architecture. Responsibilities Lead the development and maintenance of backend services and APIs in Django (primary) and .NET (secondary). Collaborate with front-end engineers to design and implement effective interfaces between the backend and the React.js client. Architect scalable data models, services, and integrations with third-party APIs. Contribute to system architecture decisions and help guide best practices in backend and full-stack development. Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code across multip [... source excerpt omitted ...] es, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. Investigates, analyzes and resolves day-to-day technical problems using standard procedures. Works with stakeholders to gather and analyze requirements for developmental programs. Receives a moderate level of guidance to design applications to meet University and business requirements. Performs code testing on components and works to ensure that appropriate implementation standards are met. Evaluates design alternatives for development cost and solutions using various methods. Supports and maintains existing applications. Works with web developers and responds to requests from users. Performs other related work as needed. Minimum Qualifica