Title : IT Software Engineer , Research Application Developer, Yale School of Management

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The Yale School of Management (SOM) is a world-renowned graduate business school that offers several degrees and programs. SOM’s mission is to educate leaders for business and society. That mission is deeply wound into all our activities from classroom pedagogy to the choices we make in managing our campus.

We are seeking a Research Application Developer for the Yale School of Management to work closely with faculty members. This role is an integral member of the Yale School of Management (SOM) Behavioral Lab research staff with primary responsibility for developing research-specific applications to facilitate data collection for Marketing and Organizational Behavior faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students, translating study ideas into working code.

Reports to the Senior Associate Director, Initiative on Leadership and Organization with a dual report to the Manager for Application Development.

The Research Application Developer will work closely with the PIs/Faculty who are facing many challenges, e.g., assisting them, or working independently with commercially available software and writing code to create capabilities not included in the packages, enabling data collection as these labor-intensive projects can demand. Developing web apps for study subjects to interact with, often mimicking existing sides, apps, and portal that we are unable to or prevented from collecting data.

The role needs to create a front and back end, enabling PIs to see how subjects interact and make judgments and decisions. Examples are clones of Wordle, Crunch Base, Glassdoor, and Gmail. These need to be built so they can be dependably deployed to subjects and securely collect valid, replicable empirical findings. This role will create a fully virtual lab where invited subjects from targeted populations can interact with each other in real time.

Executes all phases of the application development process, including gathering requirements, designing readable code, carrying out unit testing, generating usable documentation, managing data storage, and supporting and maintaining projects post-deployment. Develops both the front-end and back-end aspects of each application and ensures the secure and accurate collection of data from end users into a database.

This position is responsible for project management of applications developed through third-party vendors. Gathers requirements, holds meetings with stakeholders, and coordinates with supervisors to establish new projects. Manages the vendor relationship through regular meetings and ensures that any projects are delivered successfully with respect to budget and timeline. Responsible for maintaining the final product delivered by the vendor and works with the vendor to resolve any critical issues.