Senior Software Developer C++ (Program Principal Engineer )

Black Canyon Consulting; Bethesda (MD); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Black Canyon Consulting in Bethesda, Maryland is seeking a Senior Software Developer C++ (Program Principal Engineer) to support the National Center for Biotechnology Information. This full-time role involves developing and maintaining bioinformatics software systems used by the NIH.

The ideal candidate has strong C++ skills and experience in data management, Linux programming, and scripting. This position offers a collaborative environment and opportunities to work with cutting-edge technologies.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience handling large amounts of data or working in a distributed computing environment.
• Proficiency in C++ and programming experience in a Linux environment.
• Fluency in scripting languages such as BASH, csh, Perl, or Python.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the development, implementation, and maintenance of bioinformatics software.
• Collaborate with scientists and bioinformaticians to implement algorithms.
• Stay updated with new technologies and internal systems.

Skills

C++

Data Management

Linux

MS SQL Server

Scripting (BASH, Perl, Python)

Tools

Docker

GitHub

MongoDB

Job description

Senior Software Developer C++ (Program Principal Engineer)

Bethesda, Maryland

Overview

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for a Senior C++ Software Developer to support our work for the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), an institute of the National Institutes of Health. This opportunity is full time and onsite at the NIH-NCBI in Bethesda, MD and/or remote work.

NCBI, the National Center for Biotechnology Information, the nation’s premier biomedical resource, is seeking a software developer to help deliver biological sequence annotation and data curation infrastructure for the nation’s foremost sequence and biomedical literature repositories. Sites at NCBI, a part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), see four million daily users searching for gene sequence data, biomedical journal citations, and a wide array of other information that directly impacts biomedical research and public health. NCBI’s annotation pipelines not only serve these diverse expert communities – they actually drive new life sciences discoveries, ranging from medical health (viruses and pandemics, genetic diseases, cancer) to public health (food safety monitoring, antimicrobial resistance, viral outbreaks), to basic research topics in computational biology, bioinformatics and microbial diversity, and many more.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the development, implementation, testing, and continued maintenance of NCBI bioinformatics software and information retrieval systems
• Work with a diverse group of scientists, bioinformaticians and other developers across the center to implement efficient bioinformatics algorithms
• Learn new technologies, keep up with internal systems, and share your knowledge with the team

Required qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience handling large amounts of data or working in a distributed computing environment
• Programming experience in a Linux environment
• Proficiency in C++
• Experience with MS SQL server and relational database design and optimization
• Fluency in some scripting languages such as BASH, csh, Perl, or Python

Preferred qualifications:

• 5+ years of working with genetic and biological data
• Experience with MongoDB or other NoSQL database technology
• Experience with Docker or other containerization mechanisms
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, unit testing, integration and regression testing
• Experience using GitHub
• Experience with Cloud technologies a strong plus