Senior Software Developer

Job Family:

Software Development & Support

Travel Required:

Up to 10%

Clearance Required:

Ability to Obtain Public Trust

We are seeking a highly skilled, dynamic developer with full stack expertise using Python and JavaScript technologies. The developer will support web and mobile applications used by researchers and clinicians at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This opportunity is a full-time position with Guidehouse and can be remote or on-site at NIH in Rockville, MD.
The Senior Software Developer will collaborate closely with PhD-level scientists and subject matter experts to translate complex scientific workflows into reliable, scalable services and to design user interfaces that make complex scientific data and workflows accessible and actionable.  Responsibilities include designing and implementing APIs, data processing pipelines, and computational services, developing reusable React components, integrating with APIs, ensuring performance and usability at scale, contributing to system architecture, writing well-tested, maintainable code, and mentoring other developers. Experience with scientific computing libraries, data-intensive workloads, or distributed systems is highly desirable. Applications developed by the team are used in clinical and research settings and development is driven by continued use and iterative feedback from researchers and clinical staff as well as subject matter experts and software development team members. Strong communication skills for this position are essential as the Developer may need to frequently converse with non-computational subject matter experts.

What You Will Do:

The role will be responsible for creating and maintaining applications and will entail:

• Participate in a highly integrated software development team working in an agile environment, documenting code, testing code, and tracking tasks

• Develop new applications as well as extend existing applications; develop new features and customizations that harmonize with existing codebases

• Find creative solutions to scale the performance of existing analysis pipelines to meet the demands of rapidly growing datasets

• Collaborate between the project team and internal teams to support enterprise infrastructure to deploy and maintain software

• Experiment with new technologies and systems as well as prototype solutions for potential integration into existing infrastructure

• Review and address security vulnerabilities in collaboration with our security and infrastructure teams

What You Will Need:

B.S. in computer science or related field

Key technologies: React, TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, Docker, AWS (e.g., ECS/EKS, S3, RDS), CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions

Experience/Skills:

• SIX (6+) years of Full stack web application development and maintenance experience, including development in Python and React

• Three (3+) years of experience working with databases

• Experience building containerized applications using Docker

• Experience using GitHub actions

• TWO (2+) years of experience with Git and code deployments to multiple environments and involving reviewing the contributions of multiple team members

• Experience deploying and operating software on AWS

• Experience mentoring other developers and reviewing and providing feedback on other developer’s work

• Experience developing and using RESTful web services and JSON or XML objects for communication

• Experience communicating with end users on software development projects; being comfortable explaining complex computational terms using simple language for a non-computational audience

• Demonstrated experience extending the functionality of existing software; ability to learn an existing body of code and extend it

• Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse. Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred.

What Would Be Nice To Have:

• M.S. in computer science or related field

• Knowledge of terraform

• Familiarity with SCRUM/Agile development

• Familiarity with Swagger/OpenAPI

• Experience visualizing complex or large-scale data sets

• Experience reviewing and responding to security vulnerability reports

• Background in bioinformatics, genomics, or computational biology<