Careers

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We firmly believe that employees are the intellectual and building assets of the organization. With attractive compensation packages, positive and productive work environments and challenging assignments to offer.

Whether you are looking for the next step in your career, or a short-term job, we can connect you with a great career opportunity that’s just right for you.

Requisition Number: 28256

Position Title: Software Developer, Systems software

Location:  Multi openings / work in Eagan, MN & various locations throughout U.S to research, design, develop & test software 

Requirements:

• Requires Masters+3 years relevant experience or Bachelor’s+5 years progressive experience.  

• Required experience must include 3 years using Java  

Will accept foreign educational equivalent of degree & requires travel/relocation to unanticipated locations throughout U.S. 

Requisition Number: 21809

Position Title: Senior Software Developer, Linux and Cloud experience, full time position

Location: Bethesda, MD MARYLAND United States

Duration: On-going 

Duties & Responsibilities

•The Senior Software Developer will work on solutions to support continued development of Client’s dbGaP database.

•This database is the world premier archive of assembled and annotated sequence data and is a part of international collaboration that includes archives in Europe and Japan.

•SeqDB makes biological sequence data submitted by the scientific community available to researchers worldwide, enhancing reproducibility and allowing for new discoveries

•SeqDB is a large resource, comprised of over 1.6 billion records and 6 trillion DNA basepairs, and handles requests at rates of up to 50,000/second.

•The future development of SeqDB will involve re-architecting of the backend sequence databases, including exploration of Cloud-based strategies for sequence access.

•Client serves over 4 million daily users in search of clinical, genetic and other information that directly impacts biomedical research and public health and is the world's top 3 most-visited site in the science category.

The Senior Software Developer will be responsible for the development, implementation, testing, and continued maintenance of Client’s dbGaP database and bioinformatics pipelines

•Work with a diverse group of Scientists, Bioinformaticians and other Developers across the center to implement efficient bioinformatics algorithms and solutions for data storage and delivery

•Facilitate development of cloud-ready tools and pipelines to support sustainable scalability and enable use by collaborators and scientists in the field

•Learn new technologies, keep up with the internal systems, and share your knowledge with the team

•Provide expertise to assist other developers in design and development of new solutions

Required skills include:

•5+ years of experience handling large amounts of data or working in a distributed computing environment

•PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCE IN A LINUX ENVIRONMENT

•EXPERIENCE WITH CLOUD TECHNOLOGIES:

•AWS: EC2, S3, LAMBDA

•GCP: GKE, GOOGLE STORE, CLOUD FUNCTIONS

•Proficiency in at least one of programming languages: Java, C, C++

•Fluency in some scripting languages such as BASH, csh, Perl, or Python

•Ability to work with common structured documents (at least one of XML, JSON)

•Experience with CI/CD pipelines, unit tests, integration and regression testing

•Solid communication skills both oral and written

•Please be aware that samples of code will be asked for

Desired skills include:

•Experience with working with genetic and biological data

•Experience with relational databases

•Experience with no-SQL databases such as Cassandra

•Experience with open source projects and involvement in open source communities such as GitHub, etc.

•Experience managing production workflow of an online public database

•Experience with RESTful API design

•Adept at Agile techniques and practices

Requisition Number:42022

Position Title: Senior Full Stack Developer (React, NodeJS, SQL)

Location: Bethesda MARYLAND United States

Duration:On-going 

Duties & Responsibilities

•The Senior Full Stack Developer (React / NodeJS / SQL) will work at the Client’s on the next version of Bookshelf Content Management System (CMS) to support scientific book content submissions into a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences literature at the Client location.

•Work in an Agile product team of in-house and remote developers, Product Owner, stakeholders, DevOps and UI/UX designer on Bookshelf CMS UI, data processing flows, user authentication, admin tools and data migration from the previous version of the CMS.

•Review the work of remote development team, build, deploy and test the application on-premises, coordinate with in-house Client developers to define, document and implement APIs for integration with internal production systems.

•Maintain and support XML content processing software used in production, learn new technologies, keep up with the internal systems, and share your knowledge with the team.

Required Skills:

•BS in Computer Science or scientific field (engineering, physics), or equivalent experience

•3+ years of Full stack Web applications development using React / NodeJS / SQL (MS SQL, Postgres)

•Experience with relational database modeling, ORM, data migration

•Development experience in a Linux environment

•Scripting (shell, Python)

•Git, SVN

•Excellent verbal and written communication skills, team player, quick learner

Desired:

•Electronic publishing industry experience

•XML development experience (schema design, content validation, bulk processing tools, XSLT transforms)

•Experience working with remote development teams

•Windows C# / .Net development experience

•Experience with Python / Django web development framework

•Experience with microservices architecture and RESTful API design

•Experience with Cloud technologies: AWS, EC2, S3, RDS

•Experience with CI/CD pipelines, unit tests, integration and UI regression testing (Selenium)