BACKGROUND

REQUIREMENTS

• BS or MS in Computer Science/Software Engineering is required.
• Specific technical skills and experience pre-requisites will be established for each Software Engineer position, and may include some combination of the following:
• - Enterprise Java (Java, Javascript, JSP, Struts, Spring, EJB, MDB, Ajax, Hibernate) and associated tools and containers
• - C/C++ and associated tools
• - Relational Database (Oracle, Postgres, MySQL, and related tools including SQL and PL/SQL)
• - Bioinformatics tools and techniques
• - Scripting languages (Perl, Python, shell) and associated tools
• - Web technologies (HTML, DHTML, XML, CSS, and JavaScript) and Graphics tools (Photoshop, Image Ready, Fireworks or similar).
• - Data Modeling (UML, ER, Ontology-based) and Agile development practices
• - Operating Systems: UNIX and UNIX variants, Windows, Macintosh, and Grid technologies, including Sun Grid Engine
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to collaborate across a multi-disciplinary team, and work independently

PREFERENCES

• Bioinformatics experience or significant experience in other complex scientific domain
• High throughput computing like GRID, CLOUD or Distributed processing
• Experience with Asynchronous and Service Oriented Architectures/Web Services
• XML, SQL, Perl-cgi, C/C++
• Web Server or J2EE Application Server experience, specifically Tomcat or JBoss
• Development in mixed environment of Windows and Linux

COMPENSATION