Sr. Software Engineer

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Sr. Software Engineer

The University of Miami/UHealth Department of SCCC has an exciting opportunity for a Full Time Sr. Software Engineer to work at the UHealth campus in Miami, FL.

CORE JOB SUMMARY
The Senior Software Engineer designs, modifies, develops, and implements the LINCS Integrated Knowledge Environment (IKE), a web-based platform to federate all LINCS data, signatures, analysis algorithms, data processing pipelines, and other tools in concert with BD2K objectives. The incumbent enables scientists to smoothly perform complex queries and analyses across large, diverse, and disparate datasets.

Core Responsibilities

• Provides technical and project development leadership and oversees overall technical design and implementation.
• Supervises and provides technical guidance to junior engineers and coordinates projects across multiple sites.
• Develops code in collaboration with other software engineers.
• Establishes the release calendar and resolves issues that may impact progress against the calendar.
• Develops requirements for new features in collaboration with scientists and other users.
• Prioritizes new features and issues based on estimated effort, group skill, and other factors.

Department Specific Functions

The Clinical Software Engineer will design, build, and maintain production-grade web applications as part of the Sylvester Data Portal, the center's internal cloud-based biomedical data platform. The candidate will be performing their activities within an interdisciplinary team of research scientists, data engineers and other full-stack developers and will be using state-of-the-art software development practices. The ideal candidate should have a passion for the integration of software development with data science and be comfortable with building production-ready solutions that will be widely adopted across the center's precision medicine initiatives and collaborations.

• Develop and maintain web applications using Node.js and React, ensuring high performance and responsiveness.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including designers and product managers, to define, design, and ship new features.
• Write clean, reusable, and efficient code following industry best practices and coding standards.
• Build and optimize server-side components and APIs for seamless integration with front-end applications.
• Conduct thorough testing and debugging of applications to identify and resolve any issues or bugs.
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality, improve performance, and share knowledge with team members.
• Collaborate with the UI/UX team to implement visually appealing and user-friendly interfaces.
• Act as a content/product owner for software deliverables, ensuring that technical documentation, deployment instructions, and user-facing guides are clear, accurate, and enable adoption.

This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities as necessary.

CORE QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 4 years of relevant experience required

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer, specifically working with Node.js and React, either through professional work or personal projects.
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Strong understanding of web development principles, including client-side and server-side technologies.
• Proficiency in Typescript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, or related web technologies.
• Experience with server-side frameworks and libraries, such as Express.js, Nest.js or Loopback.js.
• Familiarity with front-end frameworks like React, along with React context state management.
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs and experience in integrating them into web applications.
• Proficiency in working with databases, both SQL and No
  
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