eb Development Engineer (Volunteer)

AvaCon seeks an experienced web development engineer who will serve as a key leadership team member and an active participant in making strategic decisions affecting AvaCon’s web services. In partnership with the leadership team, this position will lead the architecture, design, coding, and deployment of AvaCon’s web services and infrastructure, including opportunities to work with emerging and immersive virtual/augmented reality technology. The successful candidate will have experience with hands-on development programming and writing clean, testable, and well-designed code, but also be comfortable leading technical discussions and generating new ideas, gathering business and user requirements, and have project management and mentoring experience. The person who fills this position will work closely with the Executive Board and other team members to deliver innovative web services that facilitate the development and growth of the metaverse developer and user community.

Responsibilities:

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• ead the architecture, design, coding, and deployment of AvaCon’s web services and infrastructure, including collaborating on the development of new web services and applications.
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• orm and manage a web services team, including identifying staffing needs for ongoing web development and overseeing the team once formed.
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• onduct business and user requirements analysis to design scaleable, supportable, and secure web services.
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• evelop and implement comprehensive backup and disaster recovery plans, oversee implementation, and perform periodic audits to ensure compliance.
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• rovide reports, statistics, and analytics information to senior leadership, and assist with strategic and tactical decision-making.

inimum qualifications:

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• igh energy and passion for AvaCon’s mission is essential, including the ability to work remotely with a globally distributed team.
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• professional and resourceful style; the ability to work independently and as a team player, to take initiative.
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• Bachelor’s degree in a related field OR an Associates degree in a related field with two (2) years of previous professional experience OR five (5) years of previous professional experience. Â Experience must be in web development, software engineering, system administration, or some combination thereof.
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• xperience implementing and managing source control tools and performing unit testing.
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• dvanced experience building web applications that utilize PHP, Java, .NET, MySQL, JavaScript, or related web development languages or standards.

referred qualifications:

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• xperience in planning, leading, and managing web development projects, including tracking progress and reporting to senior managers/board of directors.
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• emonstrated excellence in organizational and managerial operations, effective at working with others to reach common goals and objectives.
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• ormal education in advanced programming, database concepts, and networking is preferred.
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