Duties & Responsibilities

Duties and Responsibilities

• Build robust, performant, user-facing web applications in Python/Django supporting millions of daily users
• Develop, create, and ship new functionality for user interaction and scientific data visualization, using modern APIs and frameworks
• Work as an integral part of an agile product team to deliver an unbelievably great user experience
• Deliver responsive, accessible, mobile-friendly code of high quality (automated test/build/deploy)

Requirements

Qualifications

• Requires at least 5 years of Software Development experience 
• BS in Computer Science or scientific field (engineering, physics), or equivalent experience
• Proficient with one of the current languages: Python, Kotlin, Java, JavaScript, C , C#, Ruby, etc.
• Experience in the design and development of sophisticated, modern web applications and services
• Familiarity with relational databases
• Should be self-initiated, intuitive, and possesses technical and business acumen

Highly Desired

• Experience developing Django web applications and services
• Working experience with JavaScript Frameworks such as Angular and ReactJS
• Experience using web services and RESTful APIs
• Familiarity with search engines and backends (Lucene, Solr)
• Semantic markup and modern web layout techniques
• Selenium testing
• Proficient understanding of Git version control system 
• Experience with agile development processes
• Excellent teamwork, communication and collaboration skills