Web Developer 2 – Hybrid or Remote

Web Developer 2 – Hybrid or Remote

Note: The job duties listed are typical examples of work performed by positions in this job classification and are not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, tasks, and responsibilities. Specific duties and responsibilities may vary depending on department or program needs without changing the general nature and scope of the job or level of responsibility. Employees may also perform other duties as assigned.

The School of Humanities and Sciences (H&S) is the foundation of a liberal arts education at Stanford. The school encompasses 23 departments and 25 interdisciplinary programs. H&S is home to fundamental and applied research, where free, open, and critical inquiry is pursued across disciplines. As the university’s largest school, H&S serves as the foundation of a Stanford undergraduate education no matter which discipline students pursue as a major. Graduate students work alongside world-renowned faculty to pursue and shape foundational research that leads to breakthroughs and discoveries that shed new light on the past, influence the present, and shape the future. Together, faculty and students in H&S engage in inspirational teaching, learning, and research every day.

Among the first departments established at Stanford University, the Department of Psychology has a long-standing tradition of ground-breaking theoretical research that also has powerful impact in the real world. The department is ranked as one of the top psychology programs in the nation and has been a leading psychology department among American universities for decades. This extraordinary achievement was honored by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. in 2003.

JOB PURPOSE:

The Rapid Online Assessment of Reading (ROAR) is an open-source, online reading assessment platform that is designed to bridge research and practice. Our current goal is to develop this platform more broadly to host a suite of other automated online assessments for use in research and practice. This technology has the potential to dramatically change the landscape of research into learning differences and as well as educational practice by allowing researchers to rapidly collect data at an unprecedented scale and for school districts to efficiently assess students without sacrificing instructional time. We are looking for an experienced, full-stack web developer to join our team and help build out this platform to scale to meet the needs of large school districts, serving hundreds of thousands of students. This project is a collaboration of the Language and Cognition Lab and the Brain Development and Education Lab. More information on the ROAR can be found here: https://roar.stanford.edu/; more information on the Brain Development and Education Lab can be found here: https://www.brainandeducation.com/; more information on the Language and Cognition Lab can be found here: http://langcog.stanford.edu  and open-source software projects from both labs can be found here: https://github.com/YeatmanLab and http://github.com/langcog.

Core to our team’s mission are:

• Research-Practice Partnership model: Develop technology that catalyzes research while supporting practitioners. We envision a collaborative research model where stakeholders (i.e., teachers and administrators) are critical players in the research and design process.
• Transparency and open-access: Create technology that meets a critical need in diverse school districts and can be used under an open-access, not-for-profit model.

This is a 100% FTE, 1-year fixed-term exempt position with the possibility of renewal. This position will be based on the Stanford campus and will be considered for an option of telecommuting (hybrid of working on-site and off-site), subject to operational need.

Duties include:

• Design, implement, and deploy web experiments on the ROAR platform from initial design and architecture through development, test, and deployment.
• Work with experimental psychologists to refine both core functionality and look and feel of web experiments to maximize reliability and validity.
• Contribute to internationalization of web experiments on the ROAR platform.
• Work with the ROAR team to integrate web experiments into existing infrastructure and packages.
• Work with the Language and Cognition Lab’s LEVANTE team to facilitate data transfer between ROAR experimental data and external repositories.

Core Duties:

• Design, implement, and deploy web-based applications and websites from initial design and architecture through development, test, and deployment.
• Implement and maintain content management systems, including installation, configuration, troubleshooting, and creation of Stanford-specific modules.
• Evaluate third-party modules for functionality, accessibility, security, and maintainability.
• Perform selected website administration duties for existing clients. Ensure web server and site technical performance.
• Create web pages and tools for Stanford websites using core technologies. Create and/or modify clean, well-structured, search engine optimization-friendly documented code.
• Provide technical expertise in front- and back-end web development. Support web infrastructure by providing end-user support, applications maintenance, product evaluation, back-end development, and internal management tools.
• Interpret website design and layout visually in a creative, contemporary style and fully integrated manner. Ensure high quality and consistent look and feel across multiple devices and browsers.
• Optimize the display of original online content, and collaborate with content manager to produce animated gifs, static buttons, and email and landing pages.
• Work with site architects to develop and document functional specifications based on requirements gathered from stakeholders. Support the implementation of life-cycle.
• Help develop and deploy upgrade/migration plans for existing content management system as needed.