Ariadne seeks a talented C/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.

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Required:

• 5+ years of related software development experience
• hands-on C/C++ development experience, STL
• OO knowledge and programming experience in C++
• hands-on Web development experience on Linux/Unix, CGI, HTML/CSS, JavaScript
• flexibility and ability to learn and use new technologies
• ability to work well in a team environment as well as independently and get things done

Extremely beneficial:

• database design/development experience, SQL
• experience in writing Unix shell or Perl scripts
• XML/XSLT knowledge and experience
• multi-threaded programming experience
• experience designing/building any application framework
• cross-platform Linux/Unix, Windows programming experience
• information retrieval and text indexing experience

Beneficial:

• experience with any Web application development frameworks
• background in biology or bioinformatics
• distributed systems
• network programming

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar is required
• Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent is preferred

Additional Information:

Ariadne offers a competitive salary and an excellent benefits package including
PPO health insurance with 100% company paid premiums, 401K program with
matching, paid time off and holiday pay, life insurance, flexible spending and
disability coverage. We promote an excellent work life balance with a 40-hours
workweek and a chance to work alongside accomplished scientists at NIH.

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.

Ariadne is an equal opportunity employer.

Thank you for your interest in our C/C++ Developer position!

We look forward to reviewing your application.

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