NHLBI BioData Catalyst Senior Full Stack Engineer
About The Position
GDIT is seeking a Sr. Full Stack Engineer to support the National Institute of Health (NIH), National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) custom software portfolio. The Full Stack Engineer will deliver innovative solutions for improving the effectiveness, reach, and content of these existing software solutions, while reducing their technical debt. This role requires an understanding of how to improve existing code bases; while ensuring they continue to deliver value to organizations, as well as creating new code bases. The Full Stack Engineer Senior will have a strong understanding of industry trends and using Agile methodologies for development and deployment processes and can propose and advocate for improvements to the codebase. You will provide team and developer guidance to improve overall productivity.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Information Systems/Technology, Engineering/Engineering Technology or related field.
- 7+ years of relevant experience.
- Experience using Java, JavaScript, and SQL.
- Experience with Material UI/React.
- Experience with Jenkins or GitHub Actions (CI/CD).
- Experience working with and improving existing code bases.
- Experience working in an Agile software development environment.
- Experience leveraging Azure cloud services and with Azure DB as a service (Cosmos, SQL Server).
- Ability to obtain and maintain a NIH's Public Trust.
Nice To Haves
- Prior experience with the NHLBI BioData Catalyst environment; active NIH badge is a plus
- Experience developing scientific systems that search for data in large datasets which include biological, genomic and/or proteomic data.
- Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) and JUnit.
Responsibilities
- Working across the software life cycle, with an emphasis on design and development. Systems may include scientific applications that search for data in large datasets which include biological, genomic and/or proteomic data.
- Contributing to all parts of the application and testing stack.
- Working collaboratively with the team to best realize system requirements, and when appropriate, providing custom implementations to create a compelling experience for system users.
- Facilitating and explaining high-leverage decisions about architecture and software development.
- Supporting a development team’s activities for writing clean, maintainable, testable, and extensible code.
- Contributing to all aspects of the Software Development Lifecycle (e.g. Requirements, Design, Development, and Testing)
- Collaborating with the team on Agile activities, including estimation, iterative planning and retrospectives.
- Managing code and other artifacts using GitHub.
Benefits
- 401K with company match.
- Customizable health benefits packages.
- Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career.
- Challenging work that makes a real impact on the world around you.
- Full-flex work week.
- variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
- dental plan options
- a vision plan
- a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.
- variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
- 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness
- an additional 10 paid holidays per year.
- Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.
- short and long-term disability benefits
- life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
