Senior Software Developer; C++

Overview

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for a Sr. Software Developer in Bioinformatics and Big Data to support our work for the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), an institute of the National Institutes of Health. This opportunity is full time and onsite at the NIH-NCBI in Bethesda, MD and/or remote work.

NCBI seeks a software developer to help deliver biological sequence annotation and data curation infrastructure for the nation’s foremost sequence and biomedical literature repositories. NCBI’s annotation pipelines serve diverse expert communities and drive discoveries in medical health, public health, basic research, and computational biology.

On a technical level, NCBI’s range of applications and environments (node, Python, Django, C++, petabyte-scale big data, multiple cloud providers) support a large user base. We embrace FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) and are on the cutting edge of civic tech and cloud computing.

This role requires collaboration with subject-matter experts, user researchers, designers, product managers, scientists, security and Dev Ops engineers, and other developers to build robust, flexible solutions for production applications, APIs, and services.

We offer a competitive benefits package including medical, dental and vision coverage, a 401k plan with employer contribution, paid holidays, vacation, and tuition reimbursement. If you enjoy working in a high-performing, professional service and technology-focused organization, please apply today!

• Responsible for the development, implementation, testing, and continued maintenance of NCBI bioinformatics software and information retrieval systems
• Work with a diverse group of scientists, bioinformaticians and other developers across the center to implement efficient bioinformatics algorithms
• Learn new technologies, keep up with internal systems, and share knowledge with the team

• 5+ years of experience handling large amounts of data or working in a distributed computing environment
• Programming experience in a Linux environment
• Proficiency in C++
• Experience with MS SQL server and relational database design and optimization
• Fluency in some scripting languages such as BASH, csh, Perl, or Python

• 5+ years of working with genetic and biological data
• Experience with Mongo
  
  DB or other No
  
  SQL database technology
• Experience with Docker or other containerization mechanisms
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, unit testing, integration and regression testing
• Experience using Git Hub
• Experience with Cloud technologies a strong plus

We offer a competitive benefits package including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401k plan with employer contribution, paid holidays, vacation, and tuition reimbursement.

The targeted salary range for this position is $115,000 - $150,000, commensurate with experience and location.