Software Engineer - Backend Services

This job was posted by https://illinoisjoblink.illinois.gov : For more information, please see: https://illinoisjoblink.illinois.gov/jobs/12334499 Department Provost Globus Labs - Materials About the Department Globus (www.globus.org) is a sustainable, non-profit business within The University of Chicago delivering solutions to the research community worldwide. Globus develops and provides critical services that support scientific research for governmental, academic, and commercial organizations in a wide range of disciplines including life sciences, physics, and astronomy. We develop, operate, and sell commercial-quality, cloud-based software application and platform services used by 10s of thousands of researchers to manage their large-and growing-data management challenges. We have offices located in the heart of downtown Chicago and remote employees who work-from-home. Globus, together with Globus Labs, a research group within the University of Chicago, and part of the Data Science and Learning Division at Argonne National Labs, develop and deploy cutting edge technologies to solve new challenges facing the scientific community and enable break-through scientific discoveries. Job Summary As a member of the Globus Labs software development team, the focus of this position will be to prototype, develop, and deploy new software services to help scientists and researchers publish, share, and make accessible their data and AI models, as well as to solve problems in domains ranging from materials science, chemistry, catalysis, x-ray science, and more. We\'re looking for highly skilled developers experienced in building and supporting Python backend services and systems that will be used by thousands of researchers in pursuit of open data initiatives supported by the NSF, NIST, DOE, and the Materials Genome Initiative. Responsibilities Contribute to the development of systems to enable publication of large datasets in materials science, chemistry, and other domains. Develop, manage, and deploy data infrastructure services to support various projects. Build and maintain relationships with program managers and other key personnel. Define key directions to keep UChicago at the forefront of AI/ML and national data infrastructure. Champion innovative solutions and drive initiatives that push the boundaries of AI/ML in scientific data publication and community building. Identify and pursue opportunities to create spin-off projects or products from our core research. Take ownership of key projects and see them through from concept to deployment. Collaborate with industry partners to identify real-world applications for our technologies. Propose and lead internal \'startup-like\' projects to explore new directions in data infrastructure. Architecture and Design: Contributes to the definition and documentation of requirements, architecture and design of secure, scalable, asynchronous, data access services, based on expanded knowledge of principles of API design, asynchronous processes, service deployment and delivering highly available services. Software Development: develops, tests, documents, deploys and maintains high-quality software on a cloud-based platform, including REST interfaces, command-line interfaces, and socket-based services; works with other service and client development teams to integrate and design cross-service features. Can apply GitOps principles to create reproducible deployment workflows. Research: Participate in and contribute to research efforts related to the software, including collecting and analyzing data, and writing research papers for journals or conferences, and present research to key external stakeholders. Team Coordination and Professional Development: maintains a wor ing knowledge of relevant software technologies being used in scientific and commercial communities; contributes to project planning and project reporting, and recruitment. Performs code testing on components and works to ensure that appropriate implementation standards are met. Evaluates design alternatives for development cost and solutions using various methods. Investigates, analyzes and resolves day-to-day technical problems using standard procedures. Performs other related work as needed. Minimum Qualifications Education: Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field. Work Experience: Minimum requirements include knowledge and skills developed through 2-5 years of work experience in a related job discipline. Certifications: Preferred Qualifications Education: Bachelor\'s degree in computer science or another relevant computer related field. Advanced degree in computer science or another relevant computer related field strongly preferred. Experience: 3 years of relevant programming experience developing, implementi