Back-End Web Developer; term-limited

STATE OF COLORADO RESIDENCY REQUIRED

NOTE:

This announcement may be used to fill multiple openings.

Colorado Governor Jared Polis is committed to building a Colorado For All, a place where everyone has an opportunity to succeed and live the Colorado way of life. Governor Polis is focused on lowering health care costs for hardworking Coloradans, transitioning the state to renewable energy sources, ensuring every Colorado child gets a quality education, and building an economy that works for everyone.

The State of Colorado strives to create a Colorado for All by building and maintaining workplaces that value and respect all Coloradans through a commitment to equal opportunity and hiring based on merit and fitness. The State is resolute in non-discriminatory practices in everything we do, including hiring, employment, and advancement opportunities.

• 11 paid holidays per year plus vacation and sick leave
• Medical, dental, and vision plans
• State paid life insurance policy
• Choice of 2 retirement plans (defined benefit or defined contribution)
• Optional 401(k) and 457 plans
• State paid short-term disability coverage
• Additional optional life and disability plans
• Credit Union membership
• Training and professional development

This position is an experienced back-end web developer tasked with utilizing an Agile, iterative approach in unifying, aligning, and maximizing the entire CDEC web presence for the agency. This is achieved through the application of the United States Web Design System (USWDS) principles, code, and guidance standards. This position is responsible for the functionality, performance, servers, domain hosting, databases, and application programming interfaces (APIs) within agency websites.

This role will be primarily responsible for the agency’s website unification project efforts to standardize, streamline, and consolidate our web presence.

• This position's primary duty is keeping the CDEC services operating. The digital portfolio shall be available, online, and accessible by end users at all times.
• Manage the overall health of the digital portfolio by ensuring that the front-end of all assets are navigable, engaging, user-friendly, and up-to-date at all times through monitoring of UI/UX web metrics (e.g., uptime).
• Address site performance issues by identifying issues and debugging all identified issues.
• Develop and maintain server-side code to ensure all assets are functional, able to handle expected traffic and requests, and return all responses.
• With the support of the BITS Technology & BITS Security team, design and maintain databases to store and retrieve information efficiently to ensure data integrity and security.
• Manage Google Translate API tool to advance CDEC language equity goals.
• Build and maintain necessary APIs to connect various assets, applications, and or sites to communicate effectively, efficiently, and securely with each other.
• In partnership with the Business Operations Manager and BITS Director, be proactive to ensure all web operations are in full compliance and in support of BITS technology infrastructure, including performing process analysis, documentation, recommendations, and making process and configuration changes to one or more operating functions.
• Based on directions and feedback from the Website Product Owner, work to resolve the CDEC website backlog for all tickets within scope. When applicable, the role is expected to utilize user stories and/or personas rather than requirements for guidance.
• Embrace, ensure, and foster user-centricity throughout the iterative process. With the support of the Product team and the Front-end Web Developer, utilize Agile ceremonies and/or rapid prototyping to maximize iteration impact and design improvements.
• Collaborate closely with the Product team and Front-end Web Developer to ensure alignment of decisions, impacts to the entire portfolio, and ensure the completion and distribution of release notes.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

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