Job ID: 304534
Location: Georgia Southern - Remote Work
Full/Part Time: Full Time
Regular/Temporary: Regular
About Us
Georgia Southern University is the state's largest and most comprehensive center of higher learning south of Atlanta, and one of the most dynamic public universities in the Southeast.
Founded in 1906, Georgia Southern has grown from a single-purpose college into a Carnegie Doctoral/R2 institution with 149 degree programs at the bachelor's, master's and doctoral levels, serving 31,600 students from all 50 states, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico and more than 100 nations.
Four distinct campuses extend Georgia Southern's reach across the region: a 900-acre quintessential college campus in Statesboro, anchored by Georgian-style red-brick buildings set among oaks and pines; the Armstrong Campus in Savannah, minutes from historic downtown and a short drive from the beaches of Tybee Island; a modern, purpose-built facility in Hinesville serving local and military-affiliated students; and the East Georgia Campus in Swainsboro, an outdoor oasis nestled on a 385-acre pine forest, offering expanded pathways to higher education for students across southeast Georgia.
Through ten colleges, the Allen E. Paulson College of Engineering and Computing, the College of Arts and Humanities, the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, the College of Education, the College of Science and Mathematics, the Jack N. Averitt College of Graduate Studies, the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, the Parker College of Business, the Waters College of Health Professions and University College, Georgia Southern delivers academic programs backed by real-world experience, research with regional and national impact, and a faculty committed to helping every student go further than they thought possible.
Accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges and holding specialized accreditation across its professional programs, Georgia Southern prepares graduates who are ready to lead, contribute and soar beyond, in Georgia, across the nation and around the world.
For more information, visit GeorgiaSouthern.edu.
Location
Remote
Department Information
Enterprise Application Service
Job Summary
This position works closely with business analysts and functional units to design, develop, document, test, and maintain application programs, systems and interfaces that serve students, faculty, and staff across the University.
This role sits at the center of a multi-year modernization. New services are built in TypeScript on Bun and deployed to Azure Kubernetes Service. At the same time, the University is moving reporting and aggregation off Banner local tables and onto PostgreSQL, retiring a long-lived PHP application, and migrating HR and financial integrations from PeopleSoft to Workday. The developer in this role contributes to new construction and to the safe retirement of what it replaces.
Development on this team is AI-assisted as a matter of daily practice. The incumbent is expected to use those tools fluently and to verify independently what they produce.
Prior experience with Ellucian Banner is not required. Institutional systems knowledge is taught here; modern development practice is what the position is hired for.
This is a fully remote position. The incumbent must reside and work in the states of Georgia, Florida, or South Carolina.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, test and maintain the backend services, integrations and interfaces that connect the University's enterprise systems and move data between them. Systems in scope include the Student Information System (Ellucian Banner), HR and financial platforms, and vendor-managed applications used across the institution
- Analyze functional specifications against actual system behavior, and raise gaps, conflicting requirements and unstated assumptions to business analysts and functional owners before development begins. Consult with business analysts and functional users to clarify work requests, contribute to technical design, and document assigned work
- Modernize and retire legacy components, including scheduled batch processes and long-lived application code, without interrupting the services that depend on them
- Work in both Git and Subversion while remaining repositories are migrated to Git, and contribute to that migration
- Participate in code review as both author and reviewer, and write changes that a peer or an automated check can evaluate and maintain. Apply the same review and testing standards to AI-assisted code as to any other change
- Produce technical and operational documentation, particularly for vendor-managed systems whose documented behavior and actual behavior differ
- Work in systems outside a primary area of familiarity, including pairing with or shadowing the developer who supports a system, and document and share working knowledge of the systems this position supports, so that no system depends on a single person
- Apply secure development practices when handling student and employee data, including FERPA and other data privacy obligations
- Provide extended coverage during defined peak processing periods, most significantly the start of the fall term and registration windows
- Plan and carry out deployments outside business hours where a change would otherwise disrupt students or staff, scheduling those windows in advance in coordination with the team
Required Qualifications
Educational Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree OR four (4) or more years of professional experience building and maintaining production software in active use by others
Proposed Salary
$68,369 - $83,000
This is an exempt position paid on a monthly basis.
Required Documents to Attach
- Resume
- Cover Letter
- Two (2) Professional References
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
ABILITIES
- Consistently exhibit engaging customer service
- Ability to support various constituencies served by the University
- Proven proficiency with computers including Microsoft Office, Google, and/or applications as required for specific position
- Routine use of AI-assisted development tooling in day-to-day development work, and the ability to verify what it produces against the system itself, by querying the data, reading the source, or writing a test, before relying on it
- Demonstrated ability to become productive in an unfamiliar codebase, including where documentation is incomplete, outdated or inaccurate
- Working proficiency with relational databases and SQL, including the ability to write and debug non-trivial queries against a schema the developer did not design, and to review and tune existing queries for correctness and performance
KNOWLEDGE
- Adhere to University policies and procedures to meet Institutional goals and support University's mission for student success
- Experience integrating systems across boundaries the developer does not control, using REST, SOAP, file transfer or comparable interfaces
- Experience deploying containerized applications, and working familiarity with an orchestration platform such as Kubernetes
- Professional experience building and maintaining backend services in a modern typed language. TypeScript preferred; equivalent experience in Go, Java, C# or similar will be considered
SKILLS
- Effective communication (verbal and written), organizational and human relations skills
- Experience building and maintaining scheduled data pipelines, including batch loads and file-based feeds, with attention to idempotency, reconciliation, partial failure and late-arriving data.
- Experience with Git in a peer-reviewed development workflow, including branching, pull requests, and automated checks that gate merges
- Experience analyzing a written requirement against actual system behavior, and raising gaps, conflicts and unstated assumptions before development begins rather than at delivery
Apply Before Date
November 18, 2026
Application review may begin as early as October 13, 2026.
Contact Information
For more information or questions about a job posting, please contact the Department of Human Resources by phone at (912) 478-6947 or by email at hrservice@georgiasouthern.edu.
For technical support, please call the USG Service Desk at (877) 251.2644, or email support@usg.edu.
USG Core Values
The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 25 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards. More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy 8.2.18.1.2 and can be found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section8/C224/#p8.2.18_personnel_conduct.
Additionally, USG supports Freedom of Expression as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/C2653.
Conditions of Employment
Offers of employment are contingent upon completion of background investigation including a criminal background check demonstrating your eligibility for employment with Georgia Southern University, as determined by Georgia Southern University in its sole discretion, confirmation of the credentials and employment history reflected in your application materials and, if applicable, a satisfactory credit check. Applicants may be subject to a pre-employment drug test.
Offers are made expressly subject to the applicable federal and state laws, to the statutes, rules and regulations of this institution and to the Bylaws and Policies of the Board of Regents (BOR) of the University System of Georgia (USG), which are available for your inspection upon request.
Legally authorized to work in the United States for the duration of employment without assistance from the University.
Must be able to perform duties and responsibilities with or without reasonable accommodation.
Georgia Southern University is a Tobacco and Smoke-Free Community.
Internet access.
Ability to comply with university document security measures.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Georgia Southern University provides equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, religion, age, veteran status, political affiliation, or disability. Individuals in need of reasonable accommodations under the America with Disabilities Act to participate in the search process should notify Human Resources: (912) 478-6947.
Other Information
- Must be able to perform duties and responsibilities with or without reasonable accommodation.
- Work generally performed in an office environment.
- Workweek may occasionally extend beyond 40 hours.
- Travel may be required.
- Work week may extends to evenings, weekends and/or holidays.
- May be required to maneuver items weighing up to 25 pounds with or without reasonable accommodation.
- Stand, bend, walk and lift as needed throughout the day.
- Must be able to respond by changing their own schedule without prior notice in many cases.
Background Check
- Standard + Education