Overview

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is working with our partner Knowledge3 (knowledge3.ai)  to search for a Junior/Mid Full Stack Software Engineer with DevOps exposure supporting delivery of knowledge-first systems. You will build systems that turn fragmented scientific and enterprise data into structured, reusable knowledge assets that support explainable reasoning, governed analytics, and trustworthy AI. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on building and operating production-ready applications across frontend, backend, and deployment environments. You will support systems built around a question-driven approach, where APIs, data pipelines, and interfaces align to clearly defined query patterns and system behavior.

This is a remote-first role with a preference for U.S.-based candidates working East Coast hours. Work is primarily asynchronous, with periodic coordination across the team.. 

Duties & Responsibilities

Requirements

Overview

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for a Senior Software Developer to support our work for the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), an institute of the National Institutes of Health. This is a full-time position located at the NIH campus in Bethesda, MD and/or remote.

We are looking dor a Software Developer with a focus on Java and Python to become a member of the software development team supporting  the Human Variation product line. The Human Variation product includes systems like the Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Database (dbSNP), database of large scale genomic variants (dbVAR), the Allele Frequency Aggregator (ALFA), and the dbGaP on FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) project.

As a Software Developer, you will apply your skills to the development efforts supporting the goals and initiatives of the product team and organization. This role will work to define development tasks, adhere to delivery schedules, and ensure compliance with the organizations policies and procedures. This work is performed under the guidance of the Technical Program Manager and the team's Technical Lead.

Responsibilities include:

• Build robust, performant, user-facing web applications in Python/Django supporting millions of daily users
• Develop, create, and ship new functionality for user interaction and scientific data backend, using modern APIs and frameworks
• Work as an integral part of an agile product team to deliver an unbelievably great user experience
• Deliver responsive, accessible, mobile-friendly code of high quality (automated test/build/deploy)

Qualifications:

The ideal candidate may or may not be a United States citizen and must have at least a Bachelor or Master of Science degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or Engineering or equivalent work experience.

We are looking for an individual with:

• Strong Java and Python experience integrating applications with large SQL databases
• Experience working with highly available, high traffic web applications
• The ability to work with a detail-oriented team on software development tasks
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• The ability to troubleshoot technical roadblocks and mitigate risks

Required Skills:

• Software development experience in a Linux environment (3+ Years)
• Proficiency in Java, Python, and SQL (3+ years)
• Experience working with SQL databases (3+ years)
• Ability to work with common structured documents (XML, JSON, CSV)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, unit tests, integration, and regression testing
• Experience with version control systems like Git or SVN  
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and team player 

We attract the best people in the business with our competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision coverage, 401k plan with employer contribution, paid holidays, vacation, and tuition reimbursement. If you enjoy being a part of a high performing, professional service and technology focused organization, please apply today!

Duties & Responsibilities

• Develop and document standard operating procedures for a wide range of tasks, such as systems provisioning, installation, upgrading, and migration; host and service monitoring; configuration management; problem troubleshooting; and other aspect of systems administration.
• Manage and configure services, software, and hardware configurations.
• Take direction from the team lead and work independently within a team-environment.
• Mentor junior team members.
• Learn new technologies and skills.
• Develop and maintain custom tools in Python, Perl, Ruby, and Bash to automate managing the UNIX infrastructure.
• Use Puppet to maintain thousands of physical and virtual Linux CentOS systems and associated applications.
• Develop policies and procedures for standard systems administration tasks (packaging, OS installs, patch management).
• Build open-source software from source code.
• Document procedures, systems, services, and software. Provide ad-hoc training where appropriate.
• Provide UNIX support to NCBI's internal developers and researchers.
• Provide technical solutions to a wide range of problems and user requests through an established trouble ticketing system.
• Troubleshoot, research, design, and implement solutions to complex systems problems while accounting for technical limits, overall cost, and security policies.
• Assist with planning and implementation of major OS upgrade, deployments, and architectural changes.

Requirements:

• Willingness to learn new technologies and skills.
• Demonstrate significant experience in Linux Systems Administration (7+ years).
• Comfortable with Unix command line tools.
• Highly versed in Linux administration and best practices.
• Fluent in programming/scripting skills for automation in at least two of Bash, Ruby, Python, and Perl. (Other languages also helpful, but not required.)
• General understanding of Linux internals (system calls, file systems, processes, etc).
• General understanding of TCP/IP and related protocols (HTTP, FTP, NFS, etc…)
• Comfortable working with users of varying levels of IT knowledge.
• Experience with building open-source software from source code.
• Able to work with minimum supervision on assigned tasks, and work with others both within and outside of the team.
• Strong communication skills, especially with regards to documentation.

Bonus Points (not required!):

• Experience in a complex, dynamic, production, public-facing Linux environment.
• Experience with OpenShift, Kubernetes, GKE, or similar technologies.
• Knowledge of cloud technology such as AWS and GCP.
• Experience with automated configuration management, such as Puppet (preferred), Ansible, Chef, bcfg2, CFEngine, etc.
• Experience with version control. (Git is preferred, but not required.)
• Experience supporting large web application environments and development.
• Experience with enterprise network architectures.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, and observability tools.

Overview

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for a Sr. Full Stack Developer  to support our work for the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), an institute of the National Institutes of Health. This opportunity is full time and onsite at the NIH-NCBI in Bethesda, MD and/or remote work.

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).  NCBI is the world’s premier biomedical center hosting over six million daily users that seek research, clinical, genetic, and other information that directly impacts biomedical research and public health – at NCBI you can literally help to accelerate cures for diseases! NCBI’s wide range of applications, platforms (node, python, Django, C++, you name it) and environments (big data [petabytes], machine learning, multiple clouds) serve more users than almost any other US Government Agency according to https://analytics.usa.gov/.

Overview

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC)is searching for a Full-Stack Developer to support the User Services and Collection Division (USCD), part of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. The USCD is responsible for managing the NLM's extensive collection of biomedical literature, health information, and data resources. Its core mandate is to collect, curate, and connect the world to this information. 

The Full-Stack Developer will work on RxNorm. RxNorm is a standardized naming system for U.S. prescription and over-the-counter drugs, providing "normalized" names (ingredient + strength + form) and unique codes to resolve naming confusion between different systems, enabling clear drug identification and data sharing in EHRs and research. It links brand names to generics, helping computers and people understand the same medication unambiguously. 

This opportunity is full-time and involves working with the USCD team in Bethesda, MD.

 Duties & Responsibilities:

Overview

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for a Full-Stack Developer (Python/Django/Angular) to support the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), part of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. This opportunity is full-time and involves working with the NCBI team in Bethesda, MD.

The Full-Stack Developer will work on solutions to support continued development of NCBI’s Sequence Read Archive (SRA) – the world's premier archive of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data, and is a part of an international collaboration that includes archives in Europe and Japan.  SRA makes biological sequence data derived from NGS available to the research community to enhance reproducibility and enable discoveries by analyzing and comparing datasets. SRA is a BigData archive measured in tens of petabytes of stored data. The future development of SRA will make this data more useful for a wide variety of fields: Medical Health (genetic diseases, cancer, etc.), Public Health (food safety monitoring, antimicrobial resistance, viral outbreaks, etc.), microbial diversity, and many more.

NCBI is part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).  NCBI is the world’s premier biomedical center, hosting over six million daily users who seek research, clinical, genetic, and other information that directly impacts biomedical research and public health. At NCBI, you can literally help to accelerate cures for diseases! NCBI’s wide range of applications, platforms (Node, Python, Django, Angular, C++, you name it), and environments (big data [petabytes], machine learning, multiple clouds) serve more users than almost any other US Government Agency, according to https://analytics.usa.gov/. 

Duties & Responsibilities

Requirements

Overview

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for a Full Stack Developer - Python/Django/ReactJS to support our work for the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), an institute of the National Institutes of Health. This opportunity is full time and onsite at the NIH-NCBI in Bethesda, MD and/or remote work.

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).  NCBI is the world’s premier biomedical center hosting over six million daily users that seek research, clinical, genetic, and other information that directly impacts biomedical research and public health – at NCBI you can literally help to accelerate cures for diseases! NCBI’s wide range of applications, platforms (node, python, Django, C++, you name it) and environments (big data [petabytes], machine learning, multiple clouds) serve more users than almost any other US Government Agency according to https://analytics.usa.gov/.

You will join NCBI’s team of web developers and software engineers to build robust, flexible web applications, APIs, and services. This role calls for an expert web developer – with knowledge and experience in modern web development, testing, UI design and usability principles, and ability to work effectively with user researchers, designers, product managers, scientists, security and DevOps engineers

Overview

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for a Full-Stack Developer (Python/Django/Angular) to support the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), part of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. This is a hybrid position. Candidates must be able to work onsite at the NCBI in Bethesda, MD, approximately two days per week.

The Full-Stack Developer will work on solutions to support continued development of NCBI’s Sequence Read Archive (SRA) – the world's premier archive of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data, and is a part of an international collaboration that includes archives in Europe and Japan.  SRA makes biological sequence data derived from NGS available to the research community to enhance reproducibility and enable discoveries by analyzing and comparing datasets. SRA is a BigData archive measured in tens of petabytes of stored data. The future development of SRA will make this data more useful for a wide variety of fields: Medical Health (genetic diseases, cancer, etc.), Public Health (food safety monitoring, antimicrobial resistance, viral outbreaks, etc.), microbial diversity, and many more.

NCBI is part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).  NCBI is the world’s premier biomedical center, hosting over six million daily users who seek research, clinical, genetic, and other information that directly impacts biomedical research and public health. At NCBI, you can literally help to accelerate cures for diseases! NCBI’s wide range of applications, platforms (Node, Python, Django, Angular, C++, you name it), and environments (big data [petabytes], machine learning, multiple clouds) serve more users than almost any other US Government Agency, according to https://analytics.usa.gov/. 

Duties & Responsibilities

Requirements

Overview

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for a Full-Stack Developer to support the User Services and Collection Division (USCD), part of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. The USCD is responsible for managing the NLM's extensive collection of biomedical literature, health information, and data resources. Its core mandate is to collect, curate, and connect the world to this information. 

The Full-Stack Developer will work on DailyMed. DailyMed is a free, official National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Library of Medicine (NLM) resource providing the most current drug labeling (package inserts) for prescription and over-the-counter medicines, medical devices, and gases, directly from the FDA. Managed by the NLM, it serves as a comprehensive, user-friendly database for patients, clinicians, and researchers to access standardized, up-to-date information on dosages, warnings, interactions, and more, supporting public health.

This opportunity is full-time and involves working with the USCD team in Bethesda, MD.

 Duties & Responsibilities:

Overview

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for a Full Stack Developer - Python/Django/ReactJS to support our work for the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), an institute of the National Institutes of Health. This opportunity is full time and onsite at the NIH-NCBI in Bethesda, MD and/or remote work.

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).  NCBI is the world’s premier biomedical center hosting over six million daily users that seek research, clinical, genetic, and other information that directly impacts biomedical research and public health – at NCBI you can literally help to accelerate cures for diseases! NCBI’s wide range of applications, platforms (node, python, Django, C++, you name it) and environments (big data [petabytes], machine learning, multiple clouds) serve more users than almost any other US Government Agency according to https://analytics.usa.gov/.

You will join NCBI’s team of web developers and software engineers to build robust, flexible web applications, APIs, and services. This role calls for an expert web developer – with knowledge and experience in modern web development, testing, UI design and usability principles, and ability to work effectively with user researchers, designers, product managers, scientists, security and DevOps engineers

Overview

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is actively looking for a mid-level Full Stack Developer (C++) to support our work for the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), an institute of the National Institutes of Health. This opportunity is full time and onsite at the NIH-NCBI in Bethesda, MD and/or remote work.

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).  NCBI is the world’s premier biomedical center hosting over six million daily users that seek research, clinical, genetic, and other information that directly impacts biomedical research and public health – at NCBI you can literally help to accelerate cures for diseases! NCBI’s wide range of applications, platforms (node, python, Django, C++, you name it) and environments (big data [petabytes], machine learning, multiple clouds) serve more users than almost any other US Government Agency according to https://analytics.usa.gov/.

You will join NCBI’s team of web developers and software engineers to build robust, flexible web applications, APIs, and services. This role calls for an expert web developer – with knowledge and experience in modern web development, testing, UI design and usability principles, and ability to work effectively with user researchers, designers, product managers, scientists, security and DevOps engineers