Job Description

TITLE: SOFTWARE ENGINEER

We are seeking talented, curious, and self-motivated software engineers to help build the most advanced production-scale synthetic biology platform on the planet. Client X manufactures sustainable plant-derived ingredients using fermentation-based technology to help accelerate the move away from petrochemicals in our food, cosmetics and medicines. Our ingredients are used by more than 250 million consumers in over 2,000 of the worlds’ leading brands.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and maintain web-based application written in Python.
• Collaborate with scientists to transform an understanding of their workflow into designs and implementations of appropriate data models and user interfaces.
• Effectively communicate with research scientists.
• Apply best practices of software development throughout your work, while staying abreast of advances in the practice.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of professional programming experience
• Strong coding skills in either Python or a similar language. Ideally deep experience in multiple languages. In addition to Python, Client X has codebases in F#, R and PHP (phasing out, but still have some important legacy code).
• Experience with full-stack web application development, including coding skills in JavaScript, CSS and HTML. Relational database design and coding experience. We use PostgreSQL and SQL Server, though we also treat plasmids and chromosomes as datastores.
• Experience developing software in a Unix environment. Dev tools are chosen at the developer’s discretion, but most of the software development and all production deployment is on Linux (Ubuntu).
• Fluent Linux command-line skills.
• Interest and ability to communicate with scientists

Company Description

About The Rockridge Group: TRG is a privately held Limited Liability Company committed to connecting businesses with job seekers. We deliver high quality contingent personnel to our clients using our 3-step collaborative engagement model: Collaborate. We partner with you to understand the unique needs of your business before we propose a solution. Strategize. Based on your goals and staffing challenges, we develop high impact solutions designed for your industry. Engage. We work with your team before, during, and after every engagement to deliver 100% satisfaction. With over ten (10) years experience in the resource solutions sector, principals Greg Donner [link to bio] and Ronald Lom [link to bio] leverage the power of strategic partnership to create a powerful staffing model that improves your quality of hire.