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Pay Grade/Pay Range: $15.00/hour

Department/Organization: 219101 - University Libraries

Normal Work Schedule: Flexible, Monday - Friday, up to 20 hours per week

Note to Applicants: Please send a resume and a paragraph of interest to sjturner1@ua.edu

Job Summary: The Student Assistant Web Developer performs web development in support of University Libraries FOLIO programming project contributions.

Additional Department Summary: The University Libraries will place you in a position to learn, and use specific skills valued in the field of web application programming. We feel strongly that the skills you learn in this position will increase your marketability to organizations outside the University of Alabama, post-graduation. Most of our students have acquired excellent jobs, prior to graduation, specifically based on the skills they were able to learn, practice, and use in this position. Please join us and help us to make awesome software and we will help you in getting an awesome job, post-graduation (via the experience).

Required Minimum Qualifications: Current University of Alabama undergraduate student. Must be able to demonstrate proficiency with a relevant programming language in Java and JS web dev frameworks or libraries.

Skills and Knowledge: 1+ years general experience with Java & Spring.io & React – most important. General experience HTML5, CSS3, JS libraries, Javascript, SQL. Experience with Stripes toolkit. Experience using Github and performing pull requests. Experience with using Jira for programming work, tracking. IDE usage, with AI plugins for coding help (Cursor, GH Co-Pilot, etc.). Experience with large software projects. Experience with programming testing procedures – JEST and other JS wrap tests, acceptance testing, Smoke and Smell tests, etc. Experience with Jenkins servers and Rancher. Ability to take Miro boards and mock ups, and feature lists, and understand how to implement requests into functional software.

Preferred Qualifications: Spring.io preferred for back-end, React preferred for front-end.

Enrollment Requirements: Applicants must meet enrollment requirements to be eligible for on-campus student employment. Applicants must be enrolled in a UA degree program and meet minimum credit hour requirements during the academic year: Undergraduate Students must be registered for at least 6 credit hours during fall/spring semesters; Graduate Students must be registered for at least 4.5 credit hours during fall/spring semesters; International Students must be registered full-time (Undergraduate = 12 credit hours, Graduate = 9 credit hours) during fall/spring semesters. Enrollment requirements must be maintained for the duration of on-campus employment. Individual hiring departments and programs may also have additional eligibility requirements for employment.

Background Investigation Statement: Prior to hiring, the final candidate(s) must successfully pass a pre-employment background investigation and information obtained from social media and other internet sources. A prior conviction reported as a result of the background investigation DOES NOT automatically disqualify a candidate from consideration for this position. A candidate with a prior conviction or negative behavioral red flags will receive an individualized review of the prior conviction or negative behavioral red flags before a hiring decision is made.

Equal Employment Opportunity: The University of Alabama is an Equal Employment/Equal Educational Opportunity Institution. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment or volunteer status without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age, genetic or family medical history information, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, and will not be discriminated against because of their protected status. Applicants to and employees of this institution are protected under Federal law from discrimination on several bases. Follow the link below to find out more. "EEO is the Law" Poster