Senior Software Developer (VDB)

Location: Full-time onsite at NCBI in Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Company

hirify.global is a professional services and technology-focused organization supporting the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the National Institutes of Health.

What you will do

• Develop, implement, test, and maintain the VDB Library, SRA Toolkit, and related projects.
• Build cloud-ready tools and pipelines for the Sequence Read Archive, a petabyte-scale archive of next-generation sequencing data.
• Improve the stability, reliability, performance, and storage efficiency of SRA libraries and tools.
• Work with collaborators and scientists who use biological sequence data for biomedical and public health research.
• Learn and introduce new technologies while sharing knowledge with the team.
• Lead other developers within an Agile development process.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience and demonstrated proficiency in object-oriented programming with C++.
• Programming experience in a Linux environment.
• Experience with cloud technologies, including AWS EC2, S3, and Lambda, or GCP GKE, Google Cloud Storage, and Cloud Functions.
• Fluency in scripting languages such as Bash, Perl, or Python; ability to work with JSON and similar structured document formats.
• Experience with network programming, multithreaded programming, SQL, and relational databases.
• Experience with open-source projects, Agile methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, unit testing, integration testing, and regression testing.

Nice to have

• 5+ years of experience working with genetic and biological data.
• Active involvement in open-source communities such as GitHub.
• Experience with multiplatform development across POSIX and WinAPI.
• Experience with Docker, flex/bison parsing tools, and domain-specific language design and implementation.

Culture & Benefits

• Agile development with daily stand-ups and test-driven development.
• Work with C++11 and Python in Linux-based development environments, with some projects maintained on Windows.
• Use GitHub for source control and TeamCity/Jenkins for CI/CD.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) plan with employer contribution, paid holidays, vacation, and tuition reimbursement.