Developer

Date Posted: 02/06/2024
Req ID: 35899
Faculty/Division: UofT Mississauga
Department: UTM: Math/Comp. Sciences
Campus: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)
Position Number: 00050102

Description:

About us:

U of T Mississauga—the second largest campus of Canada’s top-ranked university and the only research university in Ontario’s booming Peel Region—is one of the world’s great catalysts of humanpotential.

Our employee community hums with the energy of 3,400 faculty, librarians and staff, who power our campus with curiosity, connection and care. We work together to spark life-changing research and innovation, make an indelible mark on the world by building equitable cities and societies, enable healthy lives, create a sustainable future and ignite entrepreneurship. Above all, we prioritize student success, and seek to give our 16,500 students the gift of a lifetime through learning and discovery. We love to open opportunities available nowhere else for our community to achieve their ambitions and make their unique contributions to Canada and the world.

This work all comes together on a spectacularly green campus, alongside the Missinihe-ziibi (Trusting Creek or Credit River), where we seek to honour truth, reciprocity and reconciliation on the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, Seneca and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. We’re thrilled to welcome those who want to learn more about us and to be part of what we do.

Your opportunity:

The Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences (MCS) is an academic unit that includes mathematics, computer science and statistics. We can only realize our mission with the dedication and excellence of engaged staff and faculty. As a Developer, you will contribute to the smooth running of our courses and programs, and act as a vital resource to faculty on course delivery, research and website hosting and content.

Our dedicated Information Technology professionals are responsible for all computing hardware, operations, network infrastructure, and systems to support and enhance the Department’s core mission. MCS students, faculty, and staff use up-to-date technologies to directly enhance learning, teaching, and research.

As the Developer, you will be responsible for all aspects of design, analysis and evaluation of programming code, ensuring that it has validity, compatibility and that it meets appropriate standards, troubleshooting and resolving technical/hardware/software issues and customizing websites according to objectives or user feedback.

The University of Toronto has been recognized as one of Greater Toronto’s Top Employers for the 16th consecutive year. The award recognizes employers with exceptional human resources programs and forward thinking workplace policies. Among the many benefits of employment at U of T are the excellent health and dental benefits and access to employee family assistance plan services, pension plan, generous vacation, a holiday closure period in December, educational assistance and tuition waivers for employees and their children, professional development, and exceptional advancement opportunities.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Writing complex technical code
• Designing, testing, and modifying programming code
• Analyzing user needs and business processes to create programming solutions
• Evaluating programming code to ensure it has validity, compatibility, and that it meets appropriate standards
• Customizing website according to objectives or user feedback
• Troubleshooting complex computer system problems
• Conducting needs assessments to determine end-user technical requirements
• Serving as a resource on specific issues to a group of specialists

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field or acceptable combination of equivalent experience
• Minimum four (4) years hands on experience in the analysis, design, development and delivery of programming solutions
• Demonstrated experience working with javascript (nodejs), python, c, c++, ruby, perl, PHP and java
• Strong understanding and proficiency with apache, tomee/tomcat, django, ruby on rails, ajax, jquery, angular, jqueryui, bootstrap, css, mysql, postgresql and mongodb, hypervisors (vmware, virtual box, kvm) git and subversion
• Demonstrated experience working with linux and shell scripting
• Experience with all aspects of the application lifecycle (e.g.,requirements, design, implementation, and testing) and agile development methodology
• Familiarity with AODA requirements as it relates to creating accessible websites and applications
• Experience planning and implementing components of IT projects
• Experience building responsive user interfaces for websites and/or web applications and writing complex technical code
• Proven aptitude and interest to learn and build experiences with new technologies and/or upgrades
• Must be organized, a quick learner, able to prioritize effectively, possess the desire and ability to take initiative, be able to self-manage and to meet deadlines. Work effectively both independently and as part of a team
• Strong problem-solving skills, strong analytical abilities, creativity, and clear appreciation of end customer needs
• Proven ability to communicate concepts with technical and non-technical team members

Assets (Nonessential):

• Experience creating mock-ups and designing modern user-interfaces
• Ability to work on both front-end and back-end code
• Experience using command line interfaces (CLIs) on either Windows or Unix
• Experience with Service Oriented Architecture
• Experience with UI/UX
• Experience with mobile application development (e.g., iOS, Android)
• Thorough understanding of MVC based frameworks, Laravel, Spring/Spring MVC
• Thorough understanding of web-based client/server technologies in a LAMP environment

To be successful in this role you will be:

• Achievement oriented
• Adaptable
• Communicator
• Organized
• Problem solver
• Resourceful

This role is eligible for a hybrid work arrangement at the Manager's discretion, pursuant to University policies and guidelines, including but not limited to the University of Toronto’s Alternative Work Arrangements Guideline

Closing Date: 02/23/2024, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW
Appointment Type: Budget - Continuing
Schedule:Regular daytime schedule Mon-Fri (8:45 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.). Possibilty of overtime on weekdays and weekends. ​​​​​​​
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
USW Pay Band 12 -- $78,308 with an annual step progression to a maximum of $100,144. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol.
Job Category: Information Technology (IT)
Recruiter: Jessica Halteh

Lived Experience Statement
Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the posted position.