Software Engineer Lead at Arizona State University | Scottsdale, United States
Company/Recruiter: Arizona State University
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Opportunity type
Job
Location
United States of America, Scottsdale
Work arrangement
Location-based; remote work not stated
Compensation
$120,000–130,000/year
Employer
Arizona State University
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Role shape: Responsibility-led role with a detailed skills profile.
Evidence to prepare: Connect your CV or portfolio to Bachelor's degree and seven years of relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.; Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs, microservices, and web applications using J…. Use one concrete example that shows you can Design, develop, and support secure, scalable digital services to enhance the transfer learner experience..
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Job Overview
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and support secure, scalable digital services to enhance the transfer learner experience.
- Provide technical leadership for backend services, integration layers, asynchronous processing, and web applications.
- Architect end-to-end transfer workflows, including document handling, AI-driven extraction, processing, evaluation, integration, review, and reporting.
- Manage and evolve communication protocols between services and client applications, including API versioning and payload design.
- Design robust integrations with university platforms and external services, considering availability, data consistency, and failure modes.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, architects, and stakeholders to translate needs into technical solutions.
- Establish and promote engineering best practices for architecture, code quality, testing, documentation, security, accessibility, and production support.
- Maintain clear technical documentation, including glossaries, architecture decisions, API contracts, and operational guides.
- Mentor engineers, provide technical direction, and support effective delivery in a collaborative environment.
- Define responsible approaches for building and operating AI-powered and multimodal applications.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and seven years of relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs, microservices, and web applications using JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, HTTP, and JSON.
- Experience with a modern Node.js backend framework.
- Front-end development experience with Vue 3 or a comparable framework.
- Knowledge of relational databases, transactional processing, and data persistence tools.
- Experience building secure, resilient cloud applications on AWS.
- Experience designing asynchronous and event-driven systems.
- Knowledge of application security, federated identity, authentication, and authorization.
- Experience designing durable integration and anti-corruption layers.
- Experience with CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code practices.
- Experience with test-driven development, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.
- Experience using AI-assisted development and agentic engineering practices.
- Experience applying accessibility standards to public-facing digital applications.
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