Software Engineer (Full-Stack) - Essex Management

Emmes • Rockville, WA

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

This position supports "Essex, an Emmes Company". Essex is a biomedical informatics and health information technology-focused consultancy founded in 2009 and headquartered in Rockville, MD. The Essex team comprises experts with extensive experience in strategically developing and managing complex health and biomedical information programs for clients in the Federal Government, research academia, and private sectors. This is an engineering role that works as part of the software engineering team towards the development and deployment of enterprise and informatics software systems to support cancer clinical trials and research. The role provides a strong career growth opportunity in an innovative technology environment working in one of our nation's premier research organizations.

Requirements

• Strong communication skills (oral and written).
• Experience coding in C#/.NET, Python, Java, or comparable programming languages.
• Experience building enterprise software systems that run in Azure Cloud environment using technologies such as Azure Container Apps (or AKS), Azure Functions, Azure Queue Storage (or Service Bus Queues), Azure Service Bus Topics (or Event Grid), Azure Blob Storage, Azure API Management, Azure Cosmos DB (Table API), Azure AI Search, Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server, Azure Cosmos DB (Gremlin API), Azure Cosmos DB (MongoDB API), Azure Bicep (or Azure CDK).
• Experience developing software systems with a backing relational and/or NoSQL databases using ORM libraries such as SQLAlchemy.
• Experience developing microservices with RESTful API and /or grpc to exchange data via JSON, XML, and other data exchange formats.
• Experience working in an agile development environment with methodologies such as SCRUM or Kanban.
• Experience using Git, GitHub, and GitHub Actions.
• 6 years of software development experience in one or more programming languages and with data structures/algorithms.
• Azure Fundamentals or Associate certification.
• Possession of a Bachelor or Graduate degree in a technical field such as Computer Science from an accredited college or university (according to CHEA).

Nice To Haves

• Experience with AI-assisted engineering practices and tools such as GitHub Copilot, Codex, or Claude Code, as well as conducting efficient and accurate code reviews of AI-generated code.
• Two or more years of experience building enterprise software systems that run in a Production Azure Cloud environment.
• Experience with container and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes are a plus.
• 2+ years of working with a CI/CD pipeline using Git, GitHub, and GitHub Actions (or similar tools).
• Experience integrating with Okta and additional 3rd party systems
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and AWS is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage individual task priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Develop scalable, reliable, and performant enterprise-level software systems and services for our clients, using an Object-Oriented programming language and software libraries/framework.
• Write well-tested and maintainable code leveraging unit, integration, and BDD tests.
• Contribute to project documentation, including architecture diagrams, sequence diagrams, API documentation, and technical SOPs.
• Participate in SCRUM Sprint planning, standup, review, and retrospective meetings.
• Work in a collaborative cross-functional team environment to move features (JIRA tasks) across all tiers in a CI/CD Agile SCRUM environment.
• Be a proactive part of the software engineering team, looking to make improvements to our engineering practices.
• Shadow senior team members during interviews.
• Contribute to mentoring junior members of the team.

Benefits

• Human intelligence meets cutting-edge technology
• Over 47 years of scientific excellence
• Groundbreaking research in cell and gene therapy, vaccines, infectious diseases, ophthalmology, rare diseases, and neuroscience
• Modernizing clinical trials and accelerating the development of life-changing therapies
• Culture built on integrity, collaboration, and innovation
• Perseverance and accountability
• Career where work advances global health
• Scientific excellence meets real-world impact

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level