Chemical Abstracts Service
TE59P3 Software Engineer
Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, Ohio, 43224
Description CAS uses intuitive technology, unparalleled scientific content, and unmatched human expertise to help companies create groundbreaking innovations that benefit the world. As the scientific information solutions division of the American Chemical Society, CAS manages the largest curated reservoir of scientific knowledge, and for 115 years, has helped innovators mine, assess and apply that information to keep businesses thriving. The CAS team is global, diverse, endlessly curious and strives to make scientific insights accessible to innovators worldwide. CAS is currently seeking an Advanced-level Software Engineer. This position will be located in our headquarters in Columbus, Ohio. Position Summary: The Technology division is responsible for the direction, planning, coordination, and management of the organization's information resources. Technology builds, enhances, and maintains online products and scientific databases; creates and maintains various applications to support research efforts of scientists, information professionals, patent examiners, corporations, and law firms worldwide. The division also provides resources to employees, technical support for products, manages state of the art onsite data center, creates security policies and sets internal standards for best practices in Technology project management. Job Accountabilities: As a DevOps Software Engineer, help an operations team to develop automation and observability for builds, deployments, and ongoing operations, continuing to enhance the existing CI/CD platform for the Enterprise Data Hub and Content Pipelines. Deliver new and enhanced solutions to production environments creating business value, performing installations and upgrades of applications in a complex Big Data ecosystem. Operate large scale cluster-computing environments and complex content-pipeline applications and job-queues, generating new content-builds and streams. Collaborate with teammates and product owners grooming backlogs of epics and stories for upcoming development sprints. Push the limits of strong software engineering by helping to drive automated software testing, advanced change control, and continuous delivery Qualifications: 4-year degree in computer science or engineering, or equivalent experience. Application Delivery and Software Development: at least 5 years of experience. Big Data: intermediate-level experience with the big data technology stack (e.g. Hadoop, Cascading, Spark, Scala, Solr/Lucene, and more). Java Development: intermediate-level experience creating enterprise applications with automated builds, automated deployments, shell-scripting, and operating domains using a Java-based technology stack (e.g. Java, Git, Jenkins, OpenStack, Docker, Maven, and more). AWS experience with ECS, EMR, S3 and other services is a plus. Quality Engineering: intermediate-level experience and knowledge of Automated Testing, Test-driven Development, debugging, troubleshooting, and optimizing code/automation. Leadership: willingness to provide ownership for team deliverables and to adopt CAS Operating Principles related to trust, organizational growth, team building, and team performance. Pair Programming: candidates need to have experience or be willing to pair with others when it makes sense. Clear Communication and Healthy Dialogue: candidates must be comfortable and eager to discuss work items and issues in team settings. Passion for Development: preference for candidates that actively learn on the job and outside of work. We are a team of developers that constantly seek to improve our craft and we expect to work with the same. Cross Functional Skill Development: willing to learn new skills and roles to meet the needs of their team. Technologies and Tools We Use to Build Solutions: Hadoop, Scala, Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Map-Reduce, Solr, Docker, AWS, OpenStack, Jenkins, Maven, Git, Java, Groovy, Python, Jetty, REST, SQL, Linux, Gerrit, Junit, IntelliJ, XML, XSLT, XQuery, Jira, Marklogic CAS offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package, including a generous vacation plan, medical, dental, vision insurance plans, and employee savings and retirement plans. Candidates for this position must be authorized to work in the United States and not require work authorization sponsorship by our company for this position now or in the future. EEO/Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran. Qualifications Behaviors Team Player - Works well as a member of a group Innovative - Consistently introduces new ideas and demonstrates original thinking Dedicated - Devoted to a task or purpose with loyalty or integrity Motivations Self-Starter - Inspired to perform without outside help Education Bachelor of Science of Computer Science (required) Experience 5 years: Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 5 years of related experience. (required) Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)