Nova Federal is seeking a Full Stack Web Development Intern to create a web-based tool for exploring diagnostics produced by earth system modeling experiment runs to support a federal client in Greenbelt, MD. In this role the intern will lead the design and development of an intuitive dashboard using responsive bokeh plots generated by in-house experiment workflow. Bokeh graph components and other metadata will be stored in a PostgreSQL database. Intern will be responsible for developing a robust Django backend to retrieve and display information from the database.

Required Qualifications

• Pursuing a degree in computer science or a similar technical field.
• Experience creating and working with relational databases.
• Front-end design and development experience
• Ability to work and communicate within a diverse team of scientists and engineers.
• Extensive experience writing object-oriented Python.
• Accustomed to modern software engineering practices.
• This position requires U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Residence in order to gain access to sensitive government IT and physical locations.

Desired Qualifications 

• Django or Flask backend expertise.
• Demonstrated frontend design expertise with one or more modern tools (Bootstrap, React, Angular, jQuery, etc.).
• Bokeh web-embedding or similar data visualization experience.
• PostgresSQL development or similar experience.
• Familiarity with high performance/cloud computing.

EOE, including disability/vets

Physical Requirements: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and use hands to touch, handle or feel objects, tools or controls. The employee frequently is required to talk and hear and occasionally required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.