C/C++ Software Developer

Ariadne seeks a talented C++ Programmer to develop and maintain an indexing engine and a web content delivery framework. The engine processes and makes searchable terabytes of rapidly growing biomedical information. The web portal system handles over 10 million hits from 1 million unique users every day. Both are high-performance, multi-threaded, distributed software systems running on hundreds of Linux-based servers at National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, MD.Required5+ years of related software development experiencehands-on C and C++ development experience, STLOO knowledge and programming experience in C++hands-on Web development experience on Linux/Unix, CGI, HTML/CSS, JavaScriptflexibility and ability to learn and use new technologiesability to work well in a team environment as well as independently and get things doneExtremely Beneficialdatabase design/development experience, SQLXML/XSLT knowledge and experienceexperience designing/building any application frameworkmulti-threaded programming experiencecross-platform Linux/Unix, Windows programming experienceexperience in writing Unix shell, Python or Perl scriptsinformation retrieval and text indexing experienceBeneficialexperience with any Web application development frameworksbackground in biology or bioinformaticsdistributed systemsnetwork programmingEducationBachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar is requiredMaster's degree in Computer Science or equivalent is preferredAdditional InformationCompetitive salary depends on skills and experience.Excellent benefits packageNo telecommuting.Several positions are available that have following responsibilities: design and development of business-logic and presentation components for NIH web portal, system performance optimization, development of algorithms for analyzing large volumes of biological data, design and support of databases for storing genomic and other biological information.Thank you for your interest in our C/C++ Software Developer position!We look forward to reviewing your application.Click Apply button now!