Web Developer

Date Posted: 03/17/2025
Req ID: 42198
Faculty/Division: University of Toronto Communications
Department: University of Toronto Communications
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)
Position Number: 00032544

Description:

About us:

University of Toronto Communications is dedicated to promoting, enhancing, and protecting the U of T’s reputation through broader stakeholder engagement with the University’s mission, both internally and externally. Our award-winning team consists of best-in-class experts in media relations, news and magazine writing, video production, social media, digital design and development, communications planning, and brand marketing.

Your opportunity:

Are you a skilled and innovative web developer looking to make a significant impact on a high-performing team? Then University of Toronto Communications (UTC) wants to hear from you!

As a member of UTC’s Content Innovation team, you will be responsible for supporting the development, maintenance and enhancement of some of U of T’s most important digital properties, including our main website, utoronto.ca. Content Innovation is a creative, collaborative and user-focused team consisting of a digital designer, content strategist and a fellow web developer.

Reporting to the Director, Content Innovation, the Web Developer will be responsible for planning, building, and maintaining websites, customizing them according to objectives or user feedback, and troubleshooting and resolving website performance issues. They will play a key role in ensuring web functionality meets accessibility standards and conducting usability testing for web applications. The Web Developer will also be responsible for writing complex technical code, designing, testing, and modifying programming code, and creating technical documentation and user support guides.

Your responsibilities will include:

•    Designing, testing, and modifying programming code.
•    Analyzing user needs and business processes to create programming solutions.
•    Analyzing and writing programming code structures based on user requirements.
•    Analyzing and making recommendations for programming enhancements.
•    Building and maintaining websites. Customizing websites according to objectives or user feedback.
•    Planning components of projects.
•    Creating complex and technical documentation and user support guides.
•    Serving as a resource to others by providing (non-supervisory) job related guidance.

Essential Qualifications:

•    Bachelor's Degree or acceptable combination of equivalent experience.
•    Minimum four years of relevant experience working with multi-server, enterprise-level web infrastructures.
•    Strong proficiency with modern web development frameworks including but not limited to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
•    Strong experience working with Drupal 9+ (creating themes, modules .and customizing Drupal sites).
•    Experience with PHP and back-end development.
•    Familiarity with Git for version control.
•    Knowledge of current AODA legislation and ability to apply AA/AAA standards to existing code.
•    Strong proficiency in current web design trends and practices and persistent web-database integration.
•    Ability to collaborate with both technical and non-technical team members.
•    Understanding of responsive design principles and cross-browser compatibility.
•    Problem-solving skills with a strong attention to detail.

Assets (Nonessential):

•    Experience with WordPress development, including theme and plugin creation.
•    Familiarity with front-end build tools like Gulp.
•    Experience with jQuery for interactive web features.
•    Understanding of SASS for efficient and modular CSS.
•    Basic knowledge of Node.js for server-side scripting and automation.

To be successful in this role you will be:

•    Communicator
•    Goal oriented
•    Organized
•    Problem solver
•    Team player

NOTE: This is a thirteen (13)  month term position from June 16, 2025 to July 17, 2026.

Closing Date: 04/04/2025, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW 
Appointment Type: Budget - Term 
Schedule: Full-Time NOTE: This is a thirteen (13)  month term position from June 16, 2025 to July 17, 2026.
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
USW Pay Band 12 -- $79,874. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $102,147. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol. 
Job Category: Communication/Media/Public Relations
Recruiter: Blythe Campbell

Lived Experience Statement
Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the posted position.