Senior Software Engineer

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of IT Experience
• Good interpersonal skills and communication with all levels of management
• Able to multitask, prioritize, and manage time efficiently
• Strong analytical and effective problem-solving skills
• Proficiency in popular coding languages, including Python, Java, and frameworks or systems such as AngularJS and Git
• At least 5+ years of full-stack development experience in AWS Cloud environments, such as Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS, CloudFormation, EC2, ALB, IAM, and SQS
• Fundamental understanding of cloud computing concepts and fundamentals (serverless, scalability, high availability, and durability)
• Experience with integrating Kubernetes or other containerized ecosystems
• Experience with microservices
• Working experience with CI / CD Tools & DevOps Culture
• Bachelor’s degree in CS, engineering, software engineering, or a related field
• Hands-on agile scrum methodology experience is a must
• Certifications:
• Cloud Practitioner (must-have)
• Solution Architect (good to have)
• AWS Developer (good to have)
• DevOps (good to have)

Responsibilities

• Stays current on industry and technological advances and best practices for assigned areas and is able to articulate this knowledge, including languages, frameworks, techniques, industry trends
• Work with customers and other architects to propose and implement the technology that meets the business needs
• Participates in the full application life cycle from technical design to development and from testing to support
• Drive automation at all stages of software development, release, operations, and maintenance
• Manage CI/CD tools and processes, provide technical guidance, and educate Development teams on CI/CD and automation toolsets and processes
• Design and build key architectural components and integrations
• Evaluate, recommend, improve, and build existing code base to maximize efficiencies
• Integrate third-party APIs and web services
• Work with DevOps to manage environments and release quality solutions
• Produce detailed design documentation, unit test plans, and well-documented code artifacts

This position will be primarily based in the Washington D.C. office. ACS employees work a hybrid work schedule, consisting of working onsite, three days per week. ACS employees are in the office on Tuesday and Wednesday with the third in-office day scheduled in consultation with the manager. While always welcome to work in the office, employees may work the other two days of the week from a location of their choice. New employees are immediately eligible for this hybrid work arrangement. ACS offers relocation assistance, if applicable.

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Company information

The American Chemical Society is a congressionally chartered independent membership organization that represents professionals at all degree levels and in all fields of the chemical sciences. With more than 150,000 members, ACS is the world’s largest scientific society and one of the world’s leading sources of authoritative scientific information. A nonprofit organization, ACS is at the forefront of the evolving chemistry enterprise and the premier professional home for chemists, chemical engineers and related professions around the globe. ACS is dynamic and visionary, committed to “Improving all people’s lives through the transforming power of chemistry.” This vision ─ developed and adopted by the ACS Board of Directors after broad consultation with the membership ─ fully complements the ACS Mission statement, which is “to advance the broader chemistry enterprise and its practitioners for the benefit of Earth and all its people.” Together, these two statements represent our ultimate reason for being and provide a strategic framework for our efforts. ACS publishes numerous scientific journals and databases, convenes major research conferences and provides educational, science policy and career programs in chemistry. We also give more than $22 million every year in grants for research in petroleum and related fields. We also play a leadership role in educating and communicating with policymakers and the general public about the importance of chemistry in our lives.

Company Specialties:
non-profit, chemistry, scientific society, and publishing