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Job Description:
We are looking for a mid and/or senior level Full Stack developer who values exploration, discovery, efficiency, and finding resolutions to complex issues. Our team supports NASA’s Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) located at the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), “home to the nation’s largest organization of scientists, engineers and technologists who build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study Earth, the sun, our solar system and the universe.”
We are looking for a mid and/or senior level Full Stack developer who values exploration, discovery, efficiency, and finding resolutions to complex issues. Our team supports NASA’s Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) located at the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), “home to the nation’s largest organization of scientists, engineers and technologists who build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study Earth, the sun, our solar system and the universe.”
What You’ll Do:
You’ll work closely with our other developers, engineers, operators, and our NASA customers providing development support to NASA’s Global Imagery Browse Services GIBS (https://earthdata.nasa.gov/gibs), an open-source web service and the backend to NASA’s Worldview (https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/), as it finalizes its transition from a Linux-based on-premises system to an Amazon Web Services cloud-computing environment. Your primary responsibilities will include (but not limited to):
Provide software development support that will ingest and process visualization from NASA EOSDIS partners.
Utilize AWS scripts/services to scale and deploy code.
Participate in software requirements, code reviews, and test plan reviews
Ensure clear and thorough code and design documentation.
Collaborating with team members to plan, estimate, and write clear user stories / acceptance criteria, and communicate effectively on Slack, Teams, etc.
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or related IT field from an accredited institution.
Experience with Node.js and Python backend integration
Experience in operational deployment, troubleshooting, and issue resolution preferable in a cloud environment (AWS, EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda).
Experience developing and executing continuous integration tests (e.g. Bamboo, Jest, Ava, Mocha)
Demonstrated experience effectively maintaining a version-controlled code repository using modern tools (e.g. git)
Experience developing with Unix/Linux operating systems
Experience with Docker / containerization software
Good written and communication skills
Demonstrated experience working successfully with a distributed team
U.S. Citizenship required
Ability to obtain required National Agency Check (NAC) clearance
Desired Qualifications:
Experience as entry, mid ( 3-5 years experience), and/or senior ( 5+ years experience) level with Node.js and Python backend integration.
