CALIBRE Systems, Inc., an employee-owned management consulting and digital transformation company, is looking for a SENIOR PYTHON DEVELOPER to support our client at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in Bethesda, MD. NCBI is part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) whose wide range of applications serve more users and more data than any other US Government Agency. NCBI provides free access to petabytes of biomedical and genomic information with scientists all over the world using NCBI products, including PubMed, ClinicalTrials.gov, GenBank, RefSeq, and ClinVar.
We are seeking a Senior Python Developer who will work as a member of the Human Genotype and Phenotype (dbGaP) Software Development team and support our efforts to modernize and enhance our existing application code and develop new solutions for the dbGaP product offering.
Principal responsibilities include the following:
- Contribute to the design, development and maintenance of the dbGaP product line
- Deliver fully-tested, production-ready, cloud-ready or cloud-hosted applications in Python
- Design web-based solutions; writing, and testing code, automating tests and deployments
- Provide end to end solutions by analyzing requirements, designing, and implementing solutions
- Collaborate with other technology teams to ensure integrated end-to-end design and implementation
- Enforce existing process guidelines by driving new processes, guidelines, team rules, and best practices
- Learn new technologies and software development and delivery practices
Required Skills
Required Experience
- Bachelor's degree and/or its equivalent
- Minimum 8-10+ years’ related experience
- Strong application development background with 3+ years of experience developing in Django Python Web Framework.
- Solid understanding of Django Rest Framework and experience with building and operating a modern REST API.
- Significant experience working with ORM technologies like Django ORM or SQLAlchemy
- Experience as a Python developer using packages such as pandas, NumPy etc.
- Experience with Celery and RabbitMQ
- Experience using the different services provided by cloud service providers, especially AWS or GCP
- Proficient in Agile Software Development methodology, processes, and practices
- Experience with test automation using Pytest, mocks and Selenium
- Hands-on experience with Jira, Git, TeamCity, or other CI/CD tools
- Familiarity with secure coding guidelines and standards
- Effective communication skills
- Comfortable working with Linux command line tools and bash shell
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience using Apache Airflow
- Experience using container and orchestration solutions, particularly Docker, Kubernetes or OpenShift
- Experience with GitLab CI
- Behavior-driven development (BDD) / automated testing and deployment
- Ability to implement web applications using modern JavaScript frameworks
- Familiarity with tools and processes that evaluate and improve software security
- Experience in processing large amounts of data
- Experience in maintaining C++ applications
Other Information:
- This position will begin with working remotely until it has been determined by the NIH that workers can return to the NIH campus. Any telework thereafter will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
- Position contingent on obtaining an NIH Public Trust and NIH badging.
- Vaccination Status: All CALIBRE employees also agree to follow any additional health and safety mitigation policies that may be required at the workplace.