Software Engineering and Programming Associate

Are you looking to leverage your full-stack or microservice development experience into a new job?
Are you skilled in NodeJS and familiar with databases (relation, NoSQL, or graph) or message queues?
Are you interested in applying your enthusiasm and capability for software development to support genetic researchers?

The Bioinformatics Research Laboratory at Baylor College of Medicine is seeking a highly capable Software Engineering and Programming Associate to join our team. 
http://genboree.org/site/bioinformatics_research_laboratory

Help us drive innovation and support research by applying your full-stack or microservice development experience. You will contribute software solutions in support of high impact National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded projects, with a focus on implementing web services, automating data processing pipelines, and developing or extending data repositories.

Ideally, you have excellent NodeJS experience, are comfortable developing for the front- and back-end, and are self-motivated to learn about and incorporate new technologies or tools into your software solutions. You have experience working with diverse kinds of databases, with REST APIs, or with message queues such as Kafka, Pulsar, or RabbitMQ.

This position is eligible for a hybrid remote/WFH arrangement.

• Design, implement, test, and debug novel software and tools.
• Maintain, extend, and integrate existing software.
• Collaborate within a development team regarding requirements, timelines, tasks, and interoperability.
• Ensure that project software and tools are developed, tested and delivered on time.
• Create databases and design web API and UI services to support data set analysis and presentation.
• Support end-users and fellow developers by authoring documentation, as well as following collaboration standard practices. 

• Bachelor's degree. Four years of relevant experience may substitute for degree requirement.
• Two years of relevant experience.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Information Technology or a related field.
• Full-stack experience in NodeJS and able to design, implement, and test generic software solutions with an emphasis on reusability, as well as to extend existing systems.
• Knowledge and experience with development, compilation, and deployment in a GNU/Linux server environment is required.
• Some experience with Ruby, including Rails, is a plus.
• Able to present and discuss requirements, specifications, backend and UI designs, create necessary test data, test software, and prepare documentation.
• Able to contribute to and use shared object-oriented code libraries.
• Functional familiarity with standard web technologies such as Ajax, CSS, HTML, REST APIs, JSON.
• Experience authoring web API services and front-ends, such as Vue or web components, is an advantage.
• Experience with document, graph, and relational databases is an advantage, as is experience with message queues.
• Experience with good software engineering practices, with designing and developing software solutions to specifications and according to local standards and practices, with the use of version control systems, and with the use of integrated development environments (IDEs).
• Must have excellent English-language communication skills, interpersonal skills, and be capable of working within a team of biologists and developers.

Baylor College of Medicine requires employees to be fully vaccinated -subject to approved exemptions-against vaccine-preventable diseases including, but not limited to, COVID-19 and influenza.

Baylor College of Medicine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Equal Access Employer.

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