C/C++ Software Developer

Ariadne; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Excellent benefits package

No telecommuting

Job summary

Ariadne seeks a talented C++ Programmer to develop and maintain a fast, scalable indexing engine and a web content delivery framework. The systems process terabytes of biomedical data and support over 1 million users daily on hundreds of Linux servers at NIH in Bethesda, MD.

Required are strong C/C++ skills, STL, OO design, and team collaboration; experience with XML/XSLT, scripting, and cross-platform development is advantageous. No telecommuting; competitive benefits apply.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of related software development experience
• hands-on C and C++ development experience, STL
• OO knowledge and programming experience in C++
• flexibility and ability to learn and use new technologies
• ability to work well in a team environment as well as independently and get things done

Responsibilities

• Design and development of business-logic and presentation components for NIH web portal
• System performance optimization
• Development of algorithms for analyzing large volumes of biological data
• Design and support of databases for storing genomic and other biological information

Skills

C++

C

STL

OO design

Python

Perl

Shell scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Master's degree in Computer Science

Tools

XML/XSLT

Python

Perl

Linux

Windows

Job description

Ariadne seeks a talented C++ Programmer to develop and maintain an indexing engine and a web content delivery framework. The engine processes and makes searchable terabytes of rapidly growing biomedical information. The web portal system handles over 10 million hits from 1 million unique users every day. Both are high-performance, multi-threaded, distributed software systems running on hundreds of Linux-based servers at National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, MD.

Required:

• 5+ years of related software development experience
• hands-on C and C++ development experience, STL
• OO knowledge and programming experience in C++
• flexibility and ability to learn and use new technologies
• ability to work well in a team environment as well as independently and get things done

Extremely beneficial:

• XML/XSLT knowledge and experience
• experience designing/building any application framework
• multi-threaded programming experience
• cross-platform Linux/Unix, Windows programming experience
• experience in writing Unix shell, Python or Perl scripts
• information retrieval and text indexing experience

Beneficial:

• experience with any Web application development frameworks
• background in biology or bioinformatics
• distributed systems
• network programming

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar is required
• Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent is preferred

Additional Information:

• Competitive salary depends on skills and experience.
• Excellent benefits package
• No telecommuting.

Several positions are available that have following responsibilities: design and development of business-logic and presentation components for NIH web portal, system performance optimization, development of algorithms for analyzing large volumes of biological data, design and support of databases for storing genomic and other biological information.