[Remote] Software Engineer (Full-Stack) - Essex Management

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Emmes Group is a clinical research organization and technology company that brings people, science, and technology together to advance global health. The Software Engineer will develop and deploy scalable enterprise and informatics software systems supporting cancer clinical trials and research, while contributing to documentation, agile delivery, engineering improvements, and team mentoring.

Responsibilities

• Manage individual task priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
• Develop scalable, reliable, and performant enterprise-level software systems and services for our clients, using an Object-Oriented programming language and software libraries/framework
• Write well-tested and maintainable code leveraging unit, integration, and BDD tests
• Contribute to project documentation, including architecture diagrams, sequence diagrams, API documentation, and technical SOPs
• Participate in SCRUM Sprint planning, standup, review, and retrospective meetings
• Work in a collaborative cross-functional team environment to move features (JIRA tasks) across all tiers in a CI/CD Agile SCRUM environment
• Be a proactive part of the software engineering team, looking to make improvements to our engineering practices
• Shadow senior team members during interviews
• Contribute to mentoring junior members of the team

Skills

• Strong communication skills (oral and written)
• Experience coding in C#/.NET, Python, Java, or comparable programming languages
• Experience building enterprise software systems that run in Azure Cloud environment using technologies such as Azure Container Apps (or AKS), Azure Functions, Azure Queue Storage (or Service Bus Queues), Azure Service Bus Topics (or Event Grid), Azure Blob Storage, Azure API Management, Azure Cosmos DB (Table API), Azure AI Search, Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server, Azure Cosmos DB (Gremlin API), Azure Cosmos DB (MongoDB API), Azure Bicep (or Azure CDK)
• Experience developing software systems with a backing relational and/or NoSQL databases using ORM libraries such as SQLAlchemy
• Experience developing microservices with RESTful API and/or grpc to exchange data via JSON, XML, and other data exchange formats
• Experience working in an agile development environment with methodologies such as SCRUM or Kanban
• Experience using Git, GitHub, and GitHub Actions
• 6 years of software development experience in one or more programming languages and with data structures/algorithms
• Azure Fundamentals or Associate certification
• Possession of a Bachelor or Graduate degree in a technical field such as Computer Science from an accredited college or university (according to CHEA)
• Mostly remote within the US
• There is an expectation despite majority of the work being remote that one can come into the HQ in Rockville, Maryland roughly 10% of the year for new project kicks offs, team building, company town halls etc
• Experience with AI-assisted engineering practices and tools such as GitHub Copilot, Codex, or Claude Code, as well as conducting efficient and accurate code reviews of AI-generated code
• Two or more years of experience building enterprise software systems that run in a Production Azure Cloud environment
• Experience with container and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes are a plus
• 2+ years of working with a CI/CD pipeline using Git, GitHub, and GitHub Actions (or similar tools)
• Experience integrating with Okta and additional 3rd party systems
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and AWS is a plus

Benefits

• Mostly remote within the US.

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