Senior Python Software Developer

Overview

Candidates for this full time Software Developer position should be experienced Python programmers, comfortable with: pair programming, using object-oriented databases, and web standards. Successful applicants will become part of a team of software developers designing and implementing prototype and operational software to create a web-based distributed design and manufacturing environment for optical elements that will serve the research community.

About CNRI

Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) is a not-for-profit organization formed to undertake, foster, and promote research in the public interest. Activities center around strategic development of network-based information technologies, providing leadership and funding for information infrastructure research and development.

CNRI engages in system and technology demonstration projects in order to further the design and implementation of selected infrastructure components for new computing- and communications-based applications. CNRI has ongoing projects in electronic medical records, digital fabrication, app development for mobile devices, next-generation networking, digital object repositories, and many other information management technologies.

Requirements

• Highly motivated and a team player
• A passion for Python
• Value feedback and getting requirements directly from the customer
• Believe in being agile; embrace collaborative design and collective code ownership
• Have a mastery of HTML, DOM, Ajax, JSON, Unicode, HTTP, Apache and most especially Python
• Comfortable with test driven development
• Can provision and manage a new Linux server

Responsibilities

• Contribute and maintain a growing body of Python code
• Be responsible for development and deployment platforms
• Work with other members of the software team doing design, contribution and maintenance to ensure collective ownership and coverage
• Gather requirements by interaction directly with the customer
• Nurture summer interns

Application

Contact: Michael Huff <mhuff@mems-exchange.org>
Applicants must be US citizens or green card holders