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Web Developers (Front-End)

University of Utah
Salt Lake City, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 20 Jul 2026
💰 $84,883/yr($57,266/yr$84,883/yr)

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Open Date 07/20/2026 Requisition Number PRN45683B Job Title Web Developers (Front-End) Working Title Front-End Developer Career Progression Track P00 Track Level P2 - Developing, P1 - Entry Level Pro FLSA Code Computer Employee Patient Sensitive Job Code? No Standard Hours per Week 40 Full Time or Part Time? Full Time Shift Day Work Schedule Summary
Monday – Friday, 8am – 5pm, Hybrid
VP Area President Department 01396 - my529 Location My529 Downtown SLC City Salt Lake City, UT Type of Recruitment External Posting Pay Rate Range $57,266.27 - $84,882.94 DOE Close Date 07/28/2026 Priority Review Date (Note - Posting may close at any time) Job Summary
my529 is hiring a Front-End Engineer to build and maintain responsive high-performance web applications using React JS. This role collaborates with a UX/UI designer, Business Analysts, Quality Assurance and Backend engineers.

my529 is a nonprofit, self-supporting agency that administers a public trust. my529 is the State of Utah’s 529 education savings plan and is consistently ranked as one of the best 529 plans in the nation. my529 mixes the stability of government with a goal-driven business environment. Sound financial management and expanded marketing have created substantial growth over the last several years. Our team of over 90 employees has a clear vision of growth and the teamwork needed to support it. You can learn more about us at www.my529.org.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities:

  • Consistent delivery of quality features within a delivery teams agreed timeline for completion
  • An ongoing focus of representing front end concerns by providing feedback and insight to delivery team members during the lifecycle of a story/feature implementation.
  • Maintaining front end application health and security through vigilant reduction of technical debt while coding, running security scans before deployment. Participating in ongoing secure code training.
  • Balancing reliance on third party libraries with as much functionality as possible from vanilla/proprietary JavaScript.
  • Support fellow front end engineers by employing best practices in code reviews and technical meetings
  • Keeps user concerns forefront while balancing a reasonable engineering effort when considering proposed Requirement Acceptance Criteria and UX mock-ups

Skills & Abilities:

  • Experience creating and maintaining Single Page Applications (SPA) using React JS; A solid understanding of JSX, the React Component Lifecycle & State, the Virtual DOM, Context, Routing, Reusability, and Data Flow
  • Experience with Redux JS Action Creators, Reducers and the Redux Store
  • Experience with Material-UI’s React component library and Material Design concepts
  • Experience creating and maintaining Responsive applications
  • Experience creating unit tests for React components and Redux Reducer classes
  • High degree of comfort & proficiency within Chrome Developer Tools
  • Working understanding of RESTful API’s (JSON) and web services
  • Basic understanding of SQL relational databases
  • Experience working with a team using GIT Source Control, branching/merging/versioning
  • Experience with Agile project management
  • Exposure to secure coding practices
  • Experience maintaining your local work environment in Visual Studio Code on macOS
Minimum Qualifications
EQUIVALENCY STATEMENT: 1 year of higher education can be substituted for 1 year of directly related work experience (Example: bachelor’s degree = 4 years of directly related work experience).

Department may hire employee at one of the following job levels:

Web Developers (Front-End), I: Requires a bachelor’s (or equivalency) with up to 2 years of directly related work experience or a master’s (or equivalency) degree.
Job Code: PY4831
Grade: P15
Expected Pay Range: $57,266.27 – $83,036.10

Web Developers (Front-End), II: Requires a bachelor’s (or equivalency) + 4 years or a master’s (or equivalency) + 2 years of directly related work experience.
Job Code: PY4832
Grade: P17
Expected Pay Range: $69,292.19 – $100,473.68
Preferences
  • Three+ years of front-end web application development
  • Two+ years of React specific experience
  • Proficiency coding in modern JavaScript, CSS an

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