About the Role
Title: Software Engineer
Location: Remote United States
Job Description:
Job Family:
Software Development & Support (Digital)
Travel Required:
Up to 10%
Clearance Required:
None
Guidehouse Digital, Inc. is searching for a Software Engineer to support biomedical and scientific related software development projects at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) in the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This opportunity is a full-time position with Guidehouse and can be either on site in Rockville, MD or remote based on candidate experience.
What You Will Do:
- Software development, design and architecture
- Write clean, maintainable code, with consideration of appropriate style and industry standards, along with documentation
- Deliver assigned tasks in a timely and efficient manner, and take ownership of the product delivery
- Oversee system administration, including deployments and configuration management
- Work closely with scientific subject matter experts, front-end developers, and stakeholders to define technical requirements to ensure functional software
- Other duties as required
What You Will Need:
- Bachelor’s degree
- Minimum FIVE (5) years experience in professional software development
- ONE (1)+ years of full-time working experience using Python.
- Demonstrate ability to write software, e.g. via a GitHub/GitLab account
- Ability to use *nix command line
- Experience working with APIs, integrating with external web services (REST, XML, JSON) or third-party tools
- Ability to communicate and work with a multi-disciplinary team of developers, analysts, and scientific subject matter experts
- Experience with relational databases, e.g., creating an ORM model or defining schemas and optimizing queries.
- Experience with CI/CD processes, e.g., GitHub Actions
- Experience with building applications on Amazon Web Service (AWS)
- Understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle and exposure to Agile or iterative software design practices
- Strong communications skills, both oral and written.
- Excellent analytical, organizational, interpersonal and time management skills.
- Experience with building and orchestrating containers (Docker/Singularity)
What Would Be Nice To Have:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline
- ONE (1)+ years writing JavaScript in a professional setting
- TypeScript and/or React as an advantage