Job Description

This position is open to Alaska Residents only. Please check our residency definition to determine if you qualify.

What You Will Be Doing

Join OIT as a Senior Full Stack Web Developer and help build and support systems used by thousands of Alaskans every day. In this role, you will:

• Lead and mentor on full-stack development and enterprise infrastructure projects.
• Work closely with customers and project stakeholders to gather requirements, clarify business needs, and translate them into technical specifications.
• Perform system analysis, evaluating existing architectures and recommending improvements for scalability, maintainability, security, and performance.
• Design and document application architectures, including service interfaces, data flows, and integration patterns across complex enterprise environments.
• Apply database design principles to model, structure, and optimize data used by critical applications and backend systems.
• Convert technical designs into code, tests, documentation, deployment artifacts, and fully functional components across the stack.
• Build and maintain development, test, and production environments, ensuring smooth promotion of software and adherence to state standards.

If you thrive in requirements discovery, architecture planning, and hands-on development across the full stack—and you enjoy solving complex challenges in enterprise systems—we’d like to meet you.

Our Organization, Mission, and Culture

Our Vision: One government, empowered by innovative technical collaboration.
Our Mission: Simplify processes, boost efficiency, and protect Alaskans’ data by delivering secure, improved government services through teamwork and modern solutions.

Why You’ll Love This Job

• Impact That Matters: Your work directly improves the digital services relied upon by Alaskans statewide.
• Innovation Every Day: Be part of a team committed to creativity, efficiency, and solving complex problems.
• Collaboration at Scale: Work alongside experts in Datacenter, Cloud Infrastructure, Networking, Identity Services, Security, and more.
• Continuous Growth: Learn and apply cutting-edge technologies across enterprise systems.

The Benefits of Joining Our Team

Work with talented professionals who embrace the dynamic challenges of statewide IT systems. Opportunities for technical training, professional development, and advancement within OIT and the State of Alaska. Competitive salary and a robust benefits package including employer-contributed retirement, medical/dental/vision coverage, and group insurance options like life, disability, and pet insurance. Flexible, supportive work culture that values work/life balance: Hybrid telework options, Flex time arrangements to earn additional leave, Schedule adjustments for special situations.

The Working Environment You Can Expect

This position may work from Anchorage (619 E Ship Creek Ave) or Juneau (333 Willoughby Ave), both located near restaurants, coffee shops, and recreation areas. When onsite, your work environment is a professional technology office with modern tools and collaboration spaces.

Who We Are Looking For

We are interested in candidates who possess some or all of the following position specific competencies:

• Object Technology: Knowledge of the principles, methods, tools, and techniques that use object-oriented languages, analysis, and design methodologies.
• Computer Languages: Knowledge of computer languages and their applications to enable a system to perform specific functions.
• Database Management Systems: Knowledge of the uses of database management systems and software to control the organization, storage, retrieval, security, and integrity of data.

Minimum Qualifications

Competency Based Minimum Qualifications Instructions This job class uses competency based minimum qualifications. Please ensure your application (through work history, volunteer experience (duties summary), training, education, licenses, certifications, etc.) supports how you have gained the knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors (competencies) and that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.

Additional Required Information

Please read the below information carefully. This applies to your application submission. THIS RECRUITMENT IS FOR ALASKA RESIDENTS ONLY Please be sure to check our residency definition to determine if you qualify.

Contact Information

Ryan Kersten
Email: ryan.kersten@alaska.gov