C/C++ Software Developer

Ariadne•Bethesda, MD

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Ariadne seeks a talented C++ Programmer to develop and maintain an indexing engine and a web content delivery framework. The engine processes and makes searchable terabytes of rapidly growing biomedical information. The web portal system handles over 10 million hits from 1 million unique users every day. Both are high-performance, multi-threaded, distributed software systems running on hundreds of Linux-based servers at National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, MD.

Requirements

5+ years of related software development experience
hands-on C and C++ development experience
STL OO knowledge and programming experience in C++
hands-on Web development experience on Linux / Unix
CGI, HTML/CSS, JavaScript
flexibility and ability to learn and use new technologies
ability to work well in a team environment as well as independently and get things done

Nice To Haves

database design/development experience, SQL
XML/XSLT knowledge and experience
experience designing/building any application framework
multi-threaded programming experience
cross-platform Linux/Unix, Windows programming experience
experience in writing Unix shell, Python or Perl scripts
information retrieval and text indexing experience
experience with any Web application development frameworks
background in biology or bioinformatics
distributed systems
network programming

Responsibilities

design and development of business-logic and presentation components for NIH web portal
system performance optimization
development of algorithms for analyzing large volumes of biological data
design and support of databases for storing genomic and other biological information