[Remote] NHLBI BioData Catalyst Senior Full Stack Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. General Dynamics Information Technology is seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer to support the National Institute of Health's custom software portfolio. The role involves delivering innovative solutions to improve existing software, managing codebases, and guiding team productivity within an Agile environment.
Responsibilities
- Working across the software life cycle, with an emphasis on design and development
- Contributing to all parts of the application and testing stack
- Working collaboratively with the team to best realize system requirements, and when appropriate, providing custom implementations to create a compelling experience for system users
- Facilitating and explaining high-leverage decisions about architecture and software development
- Supporting a development team’s activities for writing clean, maintainable, testable, and extensible code
- Contributing to all aspects of the Software Development Lifecycle (e.g. Requirements, Design, Development, and Testing)
- Collaborating with the team on Agile activities, including estimation, iterative planning and retrospectives
- Managing code and other artifacts using GitHub
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Information Systems/Technology, Engineering/Engineering Technology or related field
- 7+ years of relevant experience
- Experience using Java, JavaScript, and SQL
- Experience with Material UI/React
- Experience with Jenkins or GitHub Actions (CI/CD)
- Experience working with and improving existing code bases
- Experience working in an Agile software development environment
- Experience leveraging Azure cloud services and with Azure DB as a service (Cosmos, SQL Server)
- Ability to obtain and maintain a NIH's Public Trust
- Prior experience with the NHLBI BioData Catalyst environment; active NIH badge is a plus
- Experience developing scientific systems that search for data in large datasets which include biological, genomic and/or proteomic data
- Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) and JUnit
Benefits
- 401K with company match.
- Customizable health benefits packages.
- Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career.
- Full-flex work week.
- Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.
- GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
- GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year.
- Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire.
- The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.
- Short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.
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