Senior Full Stack Developer

Job Category

Staff & Executive – Information Technology

Overview

The School of Arts and Sciences (SAS) is the largest academic unit at Rutgers University and the center of the undergraduate experience on the Rutgers-New Brunswick campus and is comprised of 41 academic departments spanning the liberal arts.

SAS offers more than 100 majors and minors across the life sciences, humanities, social and behavioral sciences, and mathematical and physical sciences with research centers and institutes across the school. With a diverse student body of more than 20,000 students, SAS has a membership of over 1,700 faculty members, more than 500 administrative staff, and 200,000 living alumni.

SAS delivers a wide array of services in support of the teaching, research, and the mission and goals of Rutgers University.

Located in New Jersey, Rutgers University is a premiere, Research 1, public land grant institution that reflects the broad spectrum of backgrounds in the state. The School of Arts and Sciences, the largest and most comprehensive school at Rutgers University, is especially interested in candidates who can advance the goals and values expressed in the SAS Strategic Plan. Applicants are encouraged to include in their cover letter information about how they will further our mission of excellence.

Posting Summary

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is seeking an experienced Senior Full-Stack Developer to join the Programming and Web Development Team within the School of Arts and Sciences IT Group. This role is part of a dynamic software development team building mission-critical, cutting-edge administrative and instructional technology applications.

Among the key duties of the position are the following:

• Works with strong Laravel (PHP) and JavaScript development skills, along with expertise in Docker, PostgreSQL, and cloud infrastructure in Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Plays a key role in developing and maintaining web applications, designing, automating, and managing scalable infrastructure and deployment pipelines, and building AI features.
• Integrates large language models and embeddings.
• Implements retrieval for search and assistance, writing prompts and evaluation tests, adding guardrails and privacy controls, and monitors quality and performance.

FLSA: Exempt

Grade: 06

Minimum Salary

94047.000

Mid Range Salary

118967.000

Maximum Salary

143887.000

Offer Information

The final salary offer may be determined by several factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate’s qualifications, experience, and expertise, and availability of department or grant funds to support the position. We also take into consideration market benchmarks, if and when appropriate, and internal equity to ensure fair compensation relative to the university’s broader compensation structure. We are committed to offering competitive and flexible compensation packages to attract and retain top talent.

Benefits

Rutgers provides a comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees. The specific benefits vary based on the position and may include:

• Medical, prescription drug, and dental coverage
• Paid vacation, holidays, and various leave programs
• Competitive retirement benefits, including defined contribution plans and voluntary tax-deferred savings options
• Employee and dependent educational benefits (when applicable)
• Life insurance coverage
• Employee discount programs

Position Status: Full Time

Standard Hours: 37.50

Daily Work Shift: Day

Union Description: Admin Assembly (MPSC)

Payroll Designation: PeopleSoft

Terms of Appointment: Staff – 12 month

Position Pension Eligibility: ABP

Minimum Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• At least three (3) years in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Systems Administration.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Proven full-stack work with Laravel (PHP) and JavaScript.
• Experience with Docker and cloud platforms, preferably AWS.
• Hands-on work with PostgreSQL or another relational database.
• Strong Linux administration skills on Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu, or similar.
• Proficiency with CI/CD tools such as GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, or CircleCI. Scripting in Python, Bash, or Go.
• Familiarity with TCP/IP, DNS, firewalls, and load balancing.
• Solid grasp of application security best practices.
• Strong problem solving in complex, multi-tier environments.
• Ability to collaborate and communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and produce high-quality results.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of Terraform or Ansible.
• Advanced knowledge of AWS services such as EC2, S3, IAM, RDS, CloudWatch, Lambda, and VPC.
• Strong programming in PHP with Laravel and in JavaScript with Vue.js, React, or Angular. Experience operating high availability, fault tolerant systems and performing incident response in production.
• Familiarity with container orchestration using Kubernetes or Amazon ECS.
• Hands-on with infrastructure as code using Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
• Skilled in database optimization and performance tuning, preferably with PostgreSQL.
• Knowledge of application and network security, including SSL/TLS, firewalls, and identity management.
• Experience building AI features using LLMs, embeddings, and retrieval, including prompt design, evaluation, guardrails, and privacy controls.
• Ability to integrate model APIs and vector stores, and monitor quality and performance.

Equipment Utilized

• The developer will be provided with a high end workstation and 2 monitors.
• The software required for development work as well as a number of robust testing platforms will be provided as needed and will be purchase by the center as needed.

Posting Open Date: 03/13/2026

Regional Campus: Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Home Location Campus: Livingston (RU-New Brunswick)

City

Piscataway

State

NJ

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