We are looking for a Application Developer to join our development team to perform a variety of programming tasks in support of the research and data teams. This person's main focus will be designing and developing software tools for data extraction and transformation processes, developing/modifying data models, and automate data curation workflows. This will include developing complex python applications and SQL queries for data analysis and extraction, developing and maintaining programs as required for the ETL process, keeping accurate and complete project documentation, performing quality testing and data assurance, and working with project managers and the Data Quality Team (DQT) members to satisfy research needs. The person in this role will need to be adaptable and be able to pick up whatever new skills and expertise are needed to complete large/multiple development projects at hand.

Key Responsibilities:

• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic
• Implementation of security and data protection
• Integration of data storage solutions in the Google cloud

Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, math, or science
• Demonstrated expertise in Python, with working knowledge of at least one Python web framework, such as Django, Flask
• Demonstrated proficiency in SQL, 5+ years hands on experience in relational database, prefer MySQL
• Demonstrated familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries
• Demonstrated ability to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Demonstrated understanding of the threading limitations of Python and multi-process architecture
• Demonstrated understanding of accessibility and security compliance
• Demonstrated knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Demonstrated understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Demonstrated ability to design/create database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Demonstrated strong unit testing and debugging skills
• Demonstrated proficiency using code versioning tools, such as Git, Mercurial or SVN
• Good communication skills
• Cloud hands-on experience, such as AWS, Azure or Google cloud preferred