Department: MED-Preventive Medicine
Salary/Grade: ITS/79

Job Summary:

Develops, codes, tests, and debugs new software or enhancements to existing software. Typically works with senior staff but may coordinate smaller or less complex projects independently. Designs and implements basic technical solutions ensuring that business needs and requirements are met. Performs basic system integration tasks. Provides estimation for assigned tasks.

Specific Responsibilities:

Strategic Planning

• Participates in the development of new goals and strategies based on interactions with primary user.
• Develops plans for software deployment on heterogeneous systems.
• Collaborates with user to develop work flow and best practices.
• Partners with user in designing features for technology.

Administration

• Creates and maintains code documentation.
• Grants system access to new user.
• Evaluates feature/upgrade/change requests and recommends action.
• Participates in interview process for new hires.
• Identifies database and software performance issues, and makes adjustments

Development

• Researches and develops new algorithms and statistical techniques designed for analyzing data based on customer needs.
• Develops and maintains software infrastructure, via patches, bundles, releases and maintenance packs.
• Codes software applications adhering to designs supporting internal business requirements or external user.
• Designs databases and data structures.
• Prioritizes tasks within project.
• Meets with business analyst/stakeholder to determine requirements.

Performance

• Completes day-to-day product engineering tasks, contributing to the definition of relevant best practices in the areas of mobile development, deployment, testing (unit and systems), and iterative refinement.
• Writes maintainable code with extensive test coverage, working in a professional software engineering environment (with source control, dev/stage/prod release cycle, continuous deployment).
• Stays up to date on the latest industry standard implementation details regarding relevant technologies.
• Completes assigned tasks while ensuring quality, security and compliance requirements are met.

Miscellaneous

Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Successful completion of a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's or higher degree in a major such as computer science, information technology, or related; OR appropriate combination of education and experience.
• 2 years relevant experience required.

Infrastructure (extends across applications)

• Linux Operating System
• NoSQL (MongoDB, CouchDB)
• React.js, Tailwind, Couchbase

Programming Languages and Frameworks

• CSS
• HTML 5
• Java
• JavaScript
• JQuery
• Node.js
• Python
• N1QL/SQL++

Analytical

• data modeling
• database design/ data structure
• problem solving
• Troubleshooting

Project

• agile environment
• Code documentation
• collaboration and teamwork
• iterative & incremental development

Minimum Competencies: (Skills, knowledge, and abilities.)

• Experience with Java, Angular, React.js
• Experience working with remote data via REST and JSON
• Experience with third-party libraries and APIs
• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.
• Good knowledge of MVC/MVVM/MVP patterns.
• Strong knowledge of relational databases and ability to write performant queries using SQL
• Familiar with Coroutin/Rxjava, Retrofit and other libraries
• Experience writing unit, integration, and UI automated tests.
• Understand use of GRADLE and MAVEN in context of package management and application production
• Experience with optimizing hardware resources, data modeling, and query optimization using a NoSQL database
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work in a collaborative team while having ownership over new and existing projects

Preferred Competencies: (Skills, knowledge, and abilities)

• Experience building and maintaining iOS and/or web applications
• Experience in pixel perfect UI design implementation
• Experience with Couchbase
• Experience building data pipelines for research infrastructure
• Experience with maintaining open-source projects 3.

Target hiring range for this position will be between $77,958-$97,447 per year. Offered salary will be determined by the applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

Benefits:
At Northwestern, we are proud to provide meaningful, competitive, high-quality health care plans, retirement benefits, tuition discounts and more! Visit us at https://www.northwestern.edu/hr/benefits/index.html to learn more.

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