Texas Association of School Boards
Lead UI Developer
Texas Association of School Boards, Austin, TX
Why Texas Association of School Boards (TASB)
We come from humble beginnings - picture a one-person organization created in 1949 to advocate for excellence in public education on behalf of Texas school board members. Flash forward to today, and we have over 500 employees working together to provide 1,024 school districts with purposeful resources so they can focus on what matters most - excellent and equitable education for all 5.4 million Texas students.
We feel privileged to work alongside talented team-members who are passionate about education and enjoy learning from new and different perspectives. We believe what makes our organization highly successful is the rich diversity our employees collectively bring to TASB with different backgrounds, skillsets, cultures and ethnicities, gender identities, interests, abilities, and work styles. And our passion for education and learning doesn't end there. Our culture has always encouraged employees to grow and become their best selves both professionally and personally through a variety of innovative and collaborative development opportunities. You're likely beginning to see why we've been regularly named by Austin Business Journal as a Top Ten Best Places to Work!
TASB offers competitive pay, rich benefits (including retirement matching of 2:1 up to 5% after one year. This means that if you contribute 5% to the plan, TASB will contribute 10%), onsite daycare, onsite gym, wellness program, tuition reimbursement, remote work options, flexible schedules, and more.
Every role at TASB thoughtfully complements our mission and the educational impact being made in communities across Texas. If you consider your work exceptional and want to help drive our mission forward, keep reading!
About You
As a Lead UI Developer, your technology expertise and vision will guide our front end development, and your mentorship skills make you a natural fit as a team lead to other UI developers. This is an Austin-based hybrid role.
A Typical Day
How You'll Make an Impact
Skills For Success
Education and Experience:
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
The TASB Difference
Posting Notices
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We come from humble beginnings - picture a one-person organization created in 1949 to advocate for excellence in public education on behalf of Texas school board members. Flash forward to today, and we have over 500 employees working together to provide 1,024 school districts with purposeful resources so they can focus on what matters most - excellent and equitable education for all 5.4 million Texas students.
We feel privileged to work alongside talented team-members who are passionate about education and enjoy learning from new and different perspectives. We believe what makes our organization highly successful is the rich diversity our employees collectively bring to TASB with different backgrounds, skillsets, cultures and ethnicities, gender identities, interests, abilities, and work styles. And our passion for education and learning doesn't end there. Our culture has always encouraged employees to grow and become their best selves both professionally and personally through a variety of innovative and collaborative development opportunities. You're likely beginning to see why we've been regularly named by Austin Business Journal as a Top Ten Best Places to Work!
TASB offers competitive pay, rich benefits (including retirement matching of 2:1 up to 5% after one year. This means that if you contribute 5% to the plan, TASB will contribute 10%), onsite daycare, onsite gym, wellness program, tuition reimbursement, remote work options, flexible schedules, and more.
Every role at TASB thoughtfully complements our mission and the educational impact being made in communities across Texas. If you consider your work exceptional and want to help drive our mission forward, keep reading!
About You
As a Lead UI Developer, your technology expertise and vision will guide our front end development, and your mentorship skills make you a natural fit as a team lead to other UI developers. This is an Austin-based hybrid role.
A Typical Day
- Play a lead role in web development for TASB's digital assets (primarily websites), from layout to function.
- Act as team lead for UI developers.
- Work on enterprise-level projects, such as developing websites using our headless CMS and reference architecture.
- If you're still reading, we'd love to meet you!
How You'll Make an Impact
- Plays a lead role in web development for TASB's digital assets, primarily websites, from layout to function.
- Builds websites and proofs of concept that adhere to design specs while also being functionally optimized.
- Proactively assesses situations and formulates necessary and timely solutions to achieve desired results.
- Develops for ADA accessibility compliance.
- Ensures UX/UI designs are technically sound and feasible.
- Oversees and contributes to design system by creating reusable code and libraries for development use.
- Develops new user-facing features that are optimized for maximum speed and scalability.
- Validates user input before passing to back end developers.
- Applies knowledge and administration expertise for related development software, including content management systems.
- Contributes to team projects as technical liaison and collaborator with business areas, Data, and IT partners.
- Coordinates with design, content, project management and other project resources including IT, data, and communications consultants.
- Proactively contributes to requirements gathering, definition, and documentation.
- Solves needs by looking at the big picture and how it relates to the current project.
- Communicates effectively with business stakeholders and executive management.
- Stays up-to-date on a variety of the developer field's concepts, practices, and procedures; expected to stay current with trends.
- Applies expertise in graphic editors and production, color theory, and animation.
- Ensures a proper SDLC is followed.
- Contributes to peer reviews.
- Mentors and teaches others on best practices and concepts.
- Enhances/improves existing processes and procedures as opportunities are recognized.
Skills For Success
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and/or experience.
- 7+ years of related UI Developer experience.
- Experience with client-side JS frameworks (preferably Vue) Node/NPM or Yarn.
- Experience with API's and consuming Data.
- Experience using CI/CD Deployment tools (preferably Azure pipeline/deployment processes).
- Experience with some structured-content-based CMS.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Strong Front-End/UX Dev Skills (HTML/CSS/JS/Bootstrap/JQuery).
- Responsive user-interface experience.
- Knowledge of or experience with C#/.NET development.
- Understanding and experience with Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics Implementations.
- Handlebars/PUG or similar templating language experience preferred.
- ASP Rager Pages preferred.
- Knowledge with Azure services (cognitive search, maps, etc.) preferred.
- Ability to work with databases.
- Knowledge of Kontent.ai experience preferred.
- Modern .NET Application design patterns skills preferred.
The TASB Difference
- Enjoy competitive pay and rich benefit offerings.
- Be part of a collaborative environment where every contribution impacts Texas public schoolchildren.
- Thrive in a culture that promotes bringing your whole self to work every day and emphasizes healthy boundaries and work-life balance.
- Learn and grow individually and together through frequent professional development; diversity, equity, and inclusion panels; wellness seminars; and more.
- Work alongside transparent leaders with an open and consistent feedback approach.
- Celebrate as a team with meaningful (and fun) events and tokens of appreciation throughout the year.
Posting Notices
- The health and safety of our employees and members, is our top priority.
- TASB is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate on the basis of an individual's race, color, disability, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, marital status, veteran status, or any other personal characteristic protected by law.
- This position does not qualify for visa sponsorship.
- Any job offer is contingent upon receipt of results of a satisfactory background check.
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