Software Engineer (Backend) - Essex Management

Emmes Group is a clinical research organization and technology company advancing healthcare through scientific and technology solutions. The Software Engineer (Backend) supports the development and deployment of enterprise and informatics software systems for cancer clinical trials and research, including scalable services, testing, documentation, and Agile collaboration.

Responsibilities:

• Manage individual task priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
• Develop scalable, reliable, and performant enterprise-level software systems and services for our clients, using an Object-Oriented programming language and software libraries/framework
• Write well-tested and maintainable code leveraging unit, integration, and BDD tests
• Contribute to project documentation, including architecture diagrams, sequence diagrams, API documentation, and technical SOPs
• Participate in SCRUM Sprint planning, standup, review, and retrospective meetings
• Work in a collaborative cross-functional team environment to move features (JIRA tasks) across all tiers in a CI/CD Agile SCRUM environment
• Be a proactive part of the software engineering team, looking to make improvements to our engineering practices
• Shadow senior team members during interviews
• Contribute to mentoring junior members of the team

Requirements:

• Strong communication skills (oral and written)

• Experience coding in Python, Java, Ruby, or comparable programming languages

• Experience building enterprise software systems that run in either AWS Cloud or GCP Cloud environments using technologies such as AWS managed services such as ECS, Lambda, SQS, SNS, S3, API Gateway, DynamoDB, OpenSearch, Aurora PostgreSQL, Neptune, DocumentDB, CDK, or Google managed services such as Google Buckets, AppEngine, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, Postgres, and BigQuery

• Experience developing software systems with a backing relational and/or NoSQL databases using ORM libraries such as sqlaclhemy

• Experience developing microservices with RESTful API and/or grpc  to exchange data via JSON, XML, and other data exchange formats

• Experience integrating with Okta and additional 3rd party systems

• Experience working in an agile development environment with methodologies such as SCRUM or Kanban

• Experience using Git, GitHub, and GitHub Actions

• 2+ years of software development experience in one or more programming languages and with data structures/algorithms

• Possession of a Bachelor or Graduate degree in a technical field such as Computer Science from an accredited college or university (according to CHEA)

• Experience with container and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes are 

  a plus

• Experience with AI-assisted engineering practices and tools such as GitHub Copilot, Codex, or Claude Code, as well as conducting efficient and accurate code reviews of AI-generated code

• 2-5 years of experience building enterprise software systems that run in a Production AWS or Google Cloud environment

• 1-2 years of working with a CI/CD pipeline using Git, GitHub, and GitHub Actions  

  (or similar tools)

• Cloud development or architect certification is a plus

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure is a plus

• Mostly remote within the US. (Please be advised that there is an expectation despite majority of the work being remote that one can come into the HQ in Rockville, Maryland roughly 10% of the year for new project kicks offs, team building, company town halls etc.)