Providence, RI
Software Engineer - Web Backend
You will be working closely with our cloud applications development team, as well as multiple external development groups, launching robust customer-facing pipelines and applications on our cloud platform. As a member of the cloud development group, you will be bringing software engineering best practices to the team, managing deliverables and timelines, providing architecture design, and coordinating with external development teams that also contribute to the code base. Your focus will be on back-end development on our python flask application.
This position reports to the Senior Director of Software Engineering.
- Responsible for adding new APIs in support of new features
- Responsible for software improvements to the efficiency of the application
- Translate product requirements into technical requirements and software architecture
- Participate in code reviews, release management, project planning, and other agile software development activities
- Coordinate with 3rd party off-shore development teams
- Coordinate with internal development teams
- Collaborate with the cloud applications team to ensure successful integration of our bioinformatics applications
- Coordinate with the cloud frontend team on all API integrations with the backend
- Contribute to documentation for each project, including internal and external release notes
- Proficient with python as used in a backend flask application
- Familiar with REST interactions between frontend and backend servers
- Demonstrated experience working on customer-facing web products
- Experience writing SQL queries
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience with docker containers running in a cloud environment
- Strong interpersonal skills with ability to effectively work in a team environment and build strong relationships
- Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited four-year college or university
- 5+ years of relevant work experience
