Backend Software Engineer

Backend Software Engineer (Hybrid)

*No Visa Sponsorship is available for this position.

About the Cornell Lab of Ornithology

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is a globally recognized leader in technology data management and largescale citizen science supporting birds and biodiversity conservation. We curate more than a petabyte of digital assets one billion bird sightings and leverage innovative big data analysis tools and machine learning to produce web applications and services to empower a global community of bird and nature enthusiasts researchers conservationists and educators. We rely on a team of highperformance engineers to help navigate intriguing technical challenges to provide datadriven services learning platforms and science communications supporting biodiversity and conservation communities in all corners of the globe. This role will develop technical infrastructure and services that support numerous userfacing applications including eBird Merlin Macaulay Library Birds of the World and BirdCast.

The Opportunity

Are you a techsavvy problem solver who loves birds data and cuttingedge web development We are looking for backend software engineer to help build the next generation of bird conservation tools! In this role youll: Design develop and maintain complex web applications that support bird research conservation and public engagement. Shape our technical future by helping transition to scalable cloudbased systems. Collaborate across teams to integrate and optimize our application infrastructure. Work with Java Spring enterprise GIS SQL (Postgres) and APIs to create seamless highperformance systems.

The primary responsibilities include:

• Design develop and maintain complex webbased applications APIs and related services utilizing Java Spring enterprise GIS systems and SQL (Postgres) for the Center for Avian Population Studies and Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (CLO).
• Participate actively in the design and evolution of our technical infrastructure and hosting platforms including the transition to more scalable agile cloudbased systems.
• Work closely with design and database teams to ensure seamless integration and user experiences.
• Help maintain our application code base troubleshoot and fix bugs and work to support and enhance application performance and system responsiveness.
• Stay up to date on the latest software development and web application best practices and processes.
• Contribute to the overall success of the engineering team.

While position responsibilities vary every member of our community is expected to foster a culture of belonging and a psychologically healthy work environment by communicating across differences; being cooperative collaborative open and welcoming; showing respect compassion and empathy; engaging and supporting others regardless of background or perspective; speaking up when others are being excluded or treated inappropriately; and supporting work/life integration of oneself and others.

What We Need

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in computer science or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Three 3 years of relevant experience working on substantial computer software projects and collaborating with a team of engineers.
• Three 3 years of objectoriented programming and modern web application development techniques building and integrating APIs web services and frontend user interfaces.
• Three 3 years of experience with Java Spring and SQL.
• Experience with relational database table design and with writing and optimizing complex queries.
• Experience with containerization using Kubernetes or Docker.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure platforms and services from major vendors such as AWS (preferred) or Azure.
• Experience with continuous integration deployment and automation technology such as Jenkins.
• Experience running services on Linux.
• Experience with version control systems (e.g. Git and modern development workflows (e.g. Agile Scrum.
• Experience with project management tools such as Jira.
• Proven experience documenting and testing code.
• Strong problemsolving and critical thinking skills and excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively and to build working relationships to solve problems and achieve common goals in a multidisciplinary environment.
• Experience in and/or demonstrated commitment to supporting diversity equity access inclusion and wellbeing.
• Ability to establish realistic goals and deliver work on schedule handle multiple concurrent tasks and priorities and adapt to changing priorities situations and demands.
• High level of integrity and dependability with a strong sense of urgency and resultsorientation and an ability to exercise sound judgment in decision making and in accomplishing tasks that are urgent or of a sensitive or confidential nature.
• Ability to work weekends or evenings when participating in the 24x7 on call duty rotation.

If you have all those things great! We have a few more things that we would prefer you to have but its ok if you dont.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in computer science or related field.
• Experience web frameworks such as React Angular or Nuxt.
• Familiarity with the Linux commandline and experience with shell scripting.
• Experience with highly available high volume transactional web applications.
• Experience with GIS data and server software such as GeoServer.
• Experience managing large volumes of data for replication warehousing and archival storage.
• Prior use and understanding of eBird Merlin BirdCast or other Cornell Lab tools and resources.
• Interest in birds nature conservation and/or natural science.

Application Information:

• A Cover Letter and Resume are required for further consideration for this position. When applying through our system please remember to attach your application materials (Cover Letter and Resume) in PDF format.
• Visa Sponsorship of any kind is not available for this position.
• This position requires working oncampus three 3 days per week.

What We Offer

Rewards and Benefits

• This position is eligible for a hybrid work arrangement. Employees typically perform this role remotely two 2 days per week and oncampus three 3 days per week. The university reserves the right to modify suspend revoke or terminate the hybrid work arrangement at any time.
• Cornell receives national recognition as an awardwinning workplace for our health wellbeing sustainability and diversity initiatives.
• Our benefits programs include comprehensive health care options generous retirement contributions access to wellness programs and employee discounts with local and national retail brands. We invite you to follow this link to get more information about our benefits: this link to learn more about the Total Rewards of Working at Cornell: leave provisions include health and personal leave three weeks of vacation and 13 holidays: Martin Luther King Jr. Day Memorial Day Juneteenth Independence Day Labor Day Thanksgiving and the day after and an end of the year winter break from December 25January 1.
• Cornells impressive educational benefits include tuitionfree Extramural Study and Employee Degree Program tuition aid for external education and Cornell Childrens Tuition Assistance Program.

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