Full Stack Software Engineer - Application Engineering

Requisition Id 14419 

­­Overview:  

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is the United States Department of Energy's largest science and energy laboratory tasked to provide the United States government agencies and departments with technology and expertise to support national and homeland security needs. 

Our diverse capabilities span scientific and engineering disciplines, enabling the Laboratory to explore fundamental science challenges and to carry out the research needed to accelerate the delivery of solutions to the marketplace. 

 

We invite applications for the position of Full Stack Software Engineer in the Application Engineering Group within the Computer Science and Mathematics Division.

The Application Engineering group is tasked with engineering the next generation of scientific software to meet the quality, performance, reliability, trustworthiness, and usability requirements needed to fulfill our mission of scientific discovery. We are committed to the notion that excellence in science requires excellence in software, and actively investigate and adopt techniques and tools that will ensure that software developed by our group is of the highest standard.

 

Major Duties/Responsibilities: 

• Collaborate with and across passionate and agile teams of software professionals to design, develop, test, and deploy advanced technical solutions for distributed systems and workflows.

• Work closely with stakeholders to meet their software requirements and help achieve their scientific goals.
• Develop and maintain front-end web applications, backend servers utilizing a microservices architecture, remote data management services, and databases supporting scientific data analysis projects.
• Participate in the roadmap, vision, and strategy for enhancing software quality.

• Mentor interns and junior team members to help them grow.
• Participate in developing the strategic direction of research software engineering at ORNL.

• Deliver ORNL’s mission by aligning behaviors, priorities, and interactions with our core values of Impact, Integrity, Teamwork, Safety, and Service. Promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility by fostering a respectful workplace – in how we treat one another, work together, and measure success.

 

Basic Qualifications:

•  A minimum of a BS degree in computer science or a related field and a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in developing scalable systems in production outside of degree.
• Experience with modern programming languages, specifically Python and JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Ability to work on both front-end and back-end applications and services.
• Excellent communication and writing skills.
• The ability to work on a team in a dynamic group environment as the team meets daily, practices Continuous Integration, collaborates on the source code and has regular deadlines.
• Motivated self-starter with the ability to work independently and to participate creatively in collaborative teams across the laboratory.
• Ability to function well in a fast-paced research environment, set priorities to accomplish multiple tasks within deadlines, and adapt to ever changing needs.

 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience in designing APIs (REST or GraphQL), microservices.
• Demonstrated experience with React or Vue frameworks
• Demonstrated experience with CSS, HTML, and web technologies