BROAD INSTITUTE Software Engineer Contract to Permanent Contact: [email protected]
OVERVIEW The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT is founded on two core beliefs: This generation has a historic opportunity and responsibility to transform medicine by using systematic approaches in the biological sciences to dramatically accelerate the understanding and treatment of disease. To fulfill this mission, we need new kinds of research institutions, with a deeply collaborative spirit across disciplines and organizations, and having the capacity to tackle ambitious challenges This position is an opportunity to work within IT/Systems, an organization that is committed to creating the best collaboration experience to accelerate ground-breaking science that transforms medicine. There is currently 1 immediate opening at this time. Compensation is commensurate with experience. OVERALL RESPONSIBILITY Works with Software Engineering team to design, implement, and maintain custom software applications that primarily support Administrative projects. Reports to Principal Software Engineer. Responsibilities include gathering requirements from users, and performing detailed design and implementation of custom workflow applications based on the CakePHP framework. In addition, the ideal candidate will possess excellent time management skills and the ability to work on multiple projects at once. Quality and detail focus is a must. CHARACTERISTIC DUTIES Join and work closely with software engineering team Responsible for the detailed design of modules and multiple object oriented classes Independently designs and implements solutions to complex problems with minimal supervision Effectively communicates the technical approach on assigned task(s) and the result(s) with peers and supervisor Identifies priorities and evaluates different approaches to completing assigned tasks Works with stakeholders to understand software requirements and ensure applications are developed to specification Communicates code risk assessments to supervisor and other team members Maintains, upgrades, fixes and reviews product source code Uses debugger in daily software development QUALIFICATIONS Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related experience At least three years of LAMP-based software development Experience with object-oriented programming with PHP, and UI design with HTML, CSS, and Javascript Experience coding for and testing user interfaces in multiple web browsers Experience working with an MVC framework, preferably CakePHP Knowledge of project management systems such as Redmine, Lighthouse, Trac, or JIRA Experience with version control, particularly Git Working knowledge of database fundamentals and SQL - MySQL preferred Experience with APIs – Google, OAuth, REST/JSON web services.
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