Front End Developer - Tech Impact Fellowship - Data Innovation Lab (Newark DE)

Data Innovation Lab 

Front-End Developer - 1 Year Fellowship 

• Join an innovative, like-minded team that focuses on your personal growth and accelerating your career! 

• Use your skills and experience for social good 

• Earn $70,000 per year plus a great host of benefits 

• Fellowship program runs from June 2025 to May 2026 

• Application window opens in January 2025 

• Location — University of Delaware’s STAR Campus in Newark, Delaware 

About Us 

Tech Impact's Data Innovation Lab (Tech Impact) exists to engage local and global organizations in an ongoing conversation around the use of advanced data analytics and artificial intelligence to fast-forward research ideas out of the lab and into the marketplace. 

Our mission is to develop novel data and analytics approaches that can disrupt the status quo and fundamentally alter a current issue or problem. Using best practices, diverse industry experience, access to technical and scientific talent, and core technologies, the lab will solve community-based issues while attracting national talent to the region and providing work for the technical and innovative talent of Delaware. 

For more information, visit our website. 

About the Opportunity 

Tech Impact is looking for Front-End Developers to join our team for a 1-year Fellowship Program in New Castle County, Delaware. The Fellowship Program will run from June 2025 to May 2026 and is a hybrid role. Along with our Lead Front-End Developer, our Front-End Developers serve as our primary delivery resource to design and create sustainable and engaging user-facing data narratives across projects. 

The Fellowship is intended for technologists with a deep technical skill set and a strong desire to serve their communities. As a Front-End Developer, you will work with our partners to design, develop, and deploy production-grade solutions to social good problems. You will be expected to collaborate across projects to prototype solutions, deploy products, and create accessible, interpretable tools for the communities we serve. Your work will directly lead to improving the lives of people in communities in Delaware and beyond.? 

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: 

• Lead and contribute to UI/UX design efforts by delivering wireframes, storyboards, prototypes, and mock-ups of data products. Translate UI/UX prototypes into code.  

• Define and iterate through application designs, refining structural and aesthetic decisions based on user testing and client feedback.  

• Author and document reusable code and libraries for routine processes.  

• Staying up to date with modern front-end technologies, such as frameworks/packages 

• Define and ensure adherence to testing and validation standards across projects.  

• Consult clients on best practices and decisions for enhancing their individual tools and developing new ones.  

• Develop user-facing features in adherence with Lab coding and collaboration standards.  

• Optimize applications for maximum speed, scalability, and accessibility.  

• Collaborate with other members of Fellowship in the design, wireframing and final build of production-grade data products.  

• Oversee all technical aspects of implementing elements of graphic design into front-end interfaces.  

• Facilitating ideation and design-thinking exercises with the Data Lab team and project partners. 

More About You 

Our preferred candidate will demonstrate their front-end development experience through a portfolio of their work and any relevant training. 

In addition, we require strong skills, experience, and knowledge in the following: 

• Commitment to leveraging data for social good.  

• Ability to be able to pick up new technologies/skills quickly 

• Experience with front-end JavaScript frameworks such as React, Vue, and Angular. 

• Experience using Node.js/NPM to install and develop new packages and modules. Understanding of ES6+ principles. Typescript experience is a plus.  

In exchange for your hard work and dedication, you will receive a salary of $70,000 per year plus a great host of benefits, including:

• Hybrid workplace (60% remote).

• Medical, dental, vision health benefits - 90% cost paid by Tech Impact.

• Wellness card that pays your co-pays.

• Accidental death and life insurance plan. 

• 401K plan.

• 15 days paid time off.

And that's not all! You will be welcomed into an innovative and supportive environment. If you think you've got the skills to take on this rewarding and challenging role, apply today! 

Application Timeline 

We value your time and strive to ensure a smooth, transparent hiring process. At the Data Lab, we assess candidates in cohort-based application pools, interviewing in three “waves”. Here is an approximate timeline of the current wave and what you can expect if you are successful in the application round:

•  Application is open 12/27-1/31 

• Phone screening interviews beginning of February 

• Mission interview end of February 

• Technical interview beginning of March 

• Admission decision end of March 

Applying for this Role 

• When applying to this role, please submit a cover letter, resume, references, and samples or links to your portfolio site.
• Cover letters are important to us.  You must complete a cover letter describing why you think you are qualified for this role and how your experience makes you an outstanding candidate.  Applications without cover letters will not be considered.
• Please note this is a remote position however candidates will need to be located in one of the following states: AR, CA, CO, DE, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KY, MD, NC, NJ, NV, OH, PA, TN, VA, WA, WI, WV

Employment Policy 

As an equal-opportunity employer, Tech Impact values a diverse, inclusive workforce, and we provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and associates. All qualified applicants for employment will be considered without regard to an individual's race, color, sex, gender identity, gender expression, religion, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, marital status, domestic partnership status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local laws. We also consider qualified applications regardless of criminal histories consistent with legal requirements. 

• ADA Specifications: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position. 

• Requires the ability to use a computer and other office-related equipment. 

• Requires the ability to sit for extended periods of time, stand, stoop, crawl and lift up to 50 lbs. 

• May require local and regional travel. 

Department: Data Lab
This is a full time position