Job Summary

Under general supervision, this position designs, develops, documents, and maintains campus enterprise applications. Primary activities include growing, and building applications for university educational and administrative systems. In addition, this position will support methods to integrate applications with the campus computing infrastructure, which includes authentication, provisioning, and enterprise portal services; utilizing current technologies and DevOps philosophies. Emphasis will be placed on solution design, providing development support for critical systems, managing application builds, updates, integrations, user interface design and web services.

This position is eligible for remote work pursuant to Cal Poly’s Telecommuting and Remote Work Guidelines and the CSU policy requiring that all work be performed within the State of California.

Department Summary

Key Qualifications

• Demonstrated skills developing enterprise applications using Java and its ecosystem (particularly Maven, Spring, Spring Boot, and Grails), as well as frontend frameworks (e.g., Angular, Vue, React, etc.)
• Demonstrated skills implementing applications using cloud hosted services (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP) and using container-based deployments (e.g., Docker, AWS Fargate, Amazon ECS).
• Thorough working knowledge of modern UI design concepts, including model-view-controller (MVC) architecture, and data binding.
• Demonstrated knowledge of HTML, JavaScript / TypeScript, CSS/LESS.
• Demonstrated skills designing secure REST services.
• Demonstrated skills with DevOps application management strategies and techniques; CI/CD workflows and code management standards, and Git-based development.

Education and Experience

Bachelor’s degree and two years of relevant experience. Additional qualifying experience may be substituted for up to two years of the required education on a year-for-year basis.

Salary and Benefits

Anticipated Hiring Range: $93,600 - $107,000 Per Year

Classification Range: $52,464 - $129,504 Per Year

Cal Poly offers a best-in-class benefits program, including health, dental and vision insurance, retirement participation in the Public Employees' Retirement System, and educational benefits for eligible employees. See our benefits website for additional information.

Cal Poly

Cal Poly is a nationally-ranked public university located in San Luis Obispo, California, and known for its Learn by Doing philosophy. Each year more than 20,000 top-tier students come to San Luis Obispo to put knowledge into action, taking their learning outside the classroom as they prepare for careers in engineering, agriculture, science, business, humanities and the built environment. Cal Poly’s hands-on philosophy, small class sizes and close student-faculty mentorships result in graduates ready from day one to impact their communities, California and the world. For more information, visit calpoly.edu.

Diversity Statement

At Cal Poly, we believe that cultivating an environment that embraces and promotes diversity is fundamental to the success of our students, our employees and our community. Bringing people together from different backgrounds, experiences and value systems fosters the innovative and creative thinking that exemplifies Cal Poly's values of free inquiry, cultural and intellectual diversity, mutual respect, civic engagement, and social and environmental responsibility.

Cal Poly's commitment to diversity informs our efforts in recruitment, hiring and retention. Cal Poly is an equal opportunity employer.

Supplemental Information

CSU requires faculty, staff, and students who are accessing campus facilities to be immunized against COVID-19 or declare a medical or religious exemption from doing so. Any candidates advanced in a currently open search process should be prepared to comply with this requirement. The systemwide policy can be found at

Following a conditional offer of employment, a background check (including a criminal records check) must be completed satisfactorily before any candidate may start work with Cal Poly. Failure to satisfactorily complete the background check may result in the withdrawal of the offer of employment. Current employees who are offered positions on campus will be required to undergo a background check for any position where a background check is required by law or that Cal Poly has designated as sensitive.

The person holding this position is considered a 'mandated reporter' under the California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act and is required to comply with the requirements set forth in CSU Executive Order 1083 as a condition of employment.

Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo is not a sponsoring agency for staff positions (i.e. H-1B visas).

Positions are posted for a minimum of 14 calendar days.