Bioinformatics Software Engineer

Overview:

The job's main responsibility is to collaborate with biologists, bioinformaticians, and software engineers to develop and maintain bioinformatics and clinical information applications.

Responsibilities:

• Support the maintenance and test of existing applications

• Provide trouble shooting and update of existing applications

EDUCATION

• Degree in computer science, engineering or related discipline

• Background in biology preferred

• Strong knowledge of Object Oriented Programming concepts using an MVC web framework

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES:

• Ability to hand-code HTML, layered and responsive CSS, and efficient JavaScript

• Develop and evolve wire-frames and example designs to continuously changing requirements

• Relational database experience (example: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server)

• Ability to read and write a variety of structured/semi-structured formats (example: XML, JSON, CSV, TSV)

• Understand the consumption and production of web services (example: REST, SOAP, AMQP)

• Navigate file systems and modify configurations for web services on Linux-based systems

• Working knowledge of code repository best practices and distributed version control (example: git/Subversion)

• Ability to collaborate with System Architects, fellow Developers and Graphic Designers