Web Developer IV

🇺🇸 Hybrid - Tuscaloosa, Alabama 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $63K 💻 Software Engineering 🗓️ October 24th, 2026

Javascript React Wordpress

Edtech.com's Summary

University of Alabama is hiring a Web Developer IV. The developer serves as the platform and deployment lead for the Division of Strategic Communications, writing and maintaining the front-end and back-end code behind the university’s enterprise-level websites and web applications. The role reports to the Associate Director of University Web Strategy and works with developers, strategists, and designers.

Highlights

Author and maintain the continuous integration and deployment infrastructure, including GitHub Actions workflows, self-hosted runners, and build tooling that deliver WordPress, React and Next.js, and static sites to on-premises and managed hosting.
Write and maintain production PHP and JavaScript across the division’s web properties, including custom WordPress plugins, components for the university’s digital design system, theme templates, and internal web applications.
Maintain the WordPress portfolio across on-premises multisite and managed single-site environments, and administer hosting platform accounts and environments.
Own the deployment path and hosting platform layer, deciding patch and update scheduling, rollback and hotfix response, release readiness, and approval of administrative access requests.
Instrument and monitor site performance, uptime, and load, diagnose issues that span code, platform, and network layers, and provide guidance and training to other developers.
Bachelor’s degree plus six years of web development experience, or a master’s degree plus four years.
Required skills include production PHP in WordPress (plugins, blocks, theme templates), modern JavaScript with React and Next.js, HTML and CSS, command line and Git workflows, npm and Node.js build tooling, DNS fundamentals, and WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility.
Preferred experience includes platform engineering or systems administration, self-hosted GitHub Actions runners, Pantheon or similar managed WordPress hosting, WordPress multisite, static site generators such as Astro, Hugo, or Eleventy, Storybook, and caching layers such as Redis or Varnish.
Pay grade starting at $62,800 with a $81,700 midpoint, on a Monday through Friday 8:00am to 5:00pm schedule; remote work is allowed subject to university policy, with a once-per-month in-person divisional staff meeting.