Research Software Developer II

Position Highlights:

Join a team that accelerates discoveries and drives innovations in cancer research.

• Works collaboratively with multiple stakeholders to gather requirements, analyze system solutions and designs, and develop complex databases and applications for large-scale research data.
• Develop both frontend and backend solutions for mobile and web applications that support groundbreaking science.
• Collaborates with researchers and members of other core facilities to provide software or database solutions to support the research mission.
• Create visualization tools that reveal insights from big data.

The Ideal Candidate:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field with at least 5 years of experience (4 years with Master's).
• Experience in systems administration in Linux environments.
• Experience using Version Control systems (Gitlab, GitHub) and coding standards.
• Experience in healthcare environments
• Experience with AWS and Snowflake
• Any experience with Virtual Machines and Docker containers to deploy applications
• Experience with R and/or Python for data integration with bioinformatics platforms
• Experience with distributed computing
• Understanding of healthcare data especially oncology related data
• Understanding of HIPAA compliance

Responsibilities:

• Develops multiple software application/database projects with minimal guidance using appropriate documentation, code, and software artifacts (database and system design).
• Maintains project progress, timely submission of data, and related reports in a highly efficient ("Agile") development environment.
• Provides database administration and support, system change management requests, monitoring, performance tuning, backup and recovery, software modification, tool implementation, and upgrades.
• Contributes to code review and system audits.
• Understands research data and handles and secures highly confidential and sensitive analysis and documentation.
• Develops program logic, writes own code, finds errors, corrects, and validates output and results.
• Maintains existing software applications
• Follows best practices and standard operating procedures established by the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Shared Resource.
• Analyzes requirements, tests, and integrates application components. Ensures that application improvements are successfully implemented.

Credentials and Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, informatics systems, health informatics, bioinformatics, health informatics, or comparable field is required and a minimum of 3 years of experience in software development life cycle (SDLC) and database design OR Master's degree in computer science, engineering, informatics systems, health informatics, bioinformatics, health informatics, or comparable field is required and a minimum of 1 year experience is required.
  • In lieu of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer science/engineering, bioinformatics, information systems, or health informatics and 3 years of experience in software development life cycle and database design, 7 years of experience in software development life cycle and database design is acceptable.
• Strong programming skills using object-oriented design and ability to integrate programming frameworks
• Advanced experience developing web apps using REST APIs, and Microservices.
• Advanced experience creating data models and writing complex SQL and NoSQL queries for multiple technologies such as: Oracle, MySQL, MS-SQL, or MongoDB.
• Experience using Linux systems
• Experience using Version Control systems (Gitlab, GitHub) and coding standards.

Moffitt Team Members are eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Retirement, Parental Leave and more. Tampa is a thriving metropolitan city, which has become a hub for ground-breaking research, welcoming individuals from around the globe. This diverse city is engulfed with rich culture, year-round activities, amazing cuisine and so much more. We strive for work/life balance.

If you have the vision, passion, and dedication to contribute to our mission,

then we have a place for you.