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Applications Programmer 5 (0653U), QB3 Institute - 37831 About Berkeley

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Departmental Overview

The California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) is a cooperative effort between the state of California, private industry, venture capital, and the University of California campuses at Berkeley, San Francisco, and Santa Cruz. In order to stimulate discovery at the intersection of the physical and biological sciences, QB3 promotes multidisciplinary research at world-class facilities, creates innovative educational programs, and fosters industry partnerships. The Institute's more than 180 researchers decipher the complex systems involved in living systems and discover ground-breaking applications for that basic knowledge in the areas of health, energy, and the environment.

Application Review Date

The minimum posting duration of this position is 14 calendar days. The department will not initiate the application review process before August 4, 2022. For full consideration please submit application materials by August 15, 2022.

Responsibilities

• Designs the most complex user system interfaces and bioinformatics application prototypes.
• Designs, develops, modifies, and evaluates programs for functional areas that are highly complex and have broad impact across the field of cancer genomics, and integrate with existing code and libraries.
• Regularly leads analysis and code review of external contributions to the open source project, and integrates code into the JBrowse project.
• Develops and executes complex test plans.
• Plays a leadership role in Open Source Software development.
• Responds to user requests for requirements analysis, help with installation and troubleshooting, and fixes bugs in response to user requests.
• Independently determines methods and procedures on new assignments.
• Leads a team of applications programming professionals.
• Interacts with all levels of internal personnel.

Required Qualifications

• Requires expert knowledge of algorithms and software development.
• Must have knowledge relating to the design and development of diverse and complex applications programs, especially JavaScript front-end development and UNIX applications programming.
• Requires thorough knowledge of other areas of IT, including devops and basic system administration.
• Requires expert skills associated with programming design, modification and implementation.
• Has skills and experience to recommend changes in development, maintenance, and applications program standards.
• Requires high level interpersonal skills in order to work with both technical and non-technical personnel at various levels in the organization.
• Must be able to communicate technical information (including domain-specific bioinformatics information) in a clear and concise manner.
• Requires ability to understand scientific needs and how scientific systems can support those needs.
• Must be self-motivated, work independently or as part of a team, able to learn quickly, meet deadlines and demonstrate problem solving skills.
• Must demonstrate expertise in web applications, web programming language and object-oriented programming concepts.

Education

• Bachelors degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/training.

Salary & Benefits

• This is a full-time (40 hours/week), career position, and eligible for full UC benefits.
• This is an exempt, monthly paid position. The annual salary is commensurate with experience within the range of $105,600.00 - $159,500.00.
• For information on the comprehensive benefits package offered by the University visit: https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/compensation-and-benefits/index.html

How to Apply

Please submit your cover letter and resume as a single attachment when applying. Please upload the document in the Resume section, then skip the (optional) Cover Letter upload section.

Referral Source info
This job is part of the Employee Referral Program. If a UC Berkeley employee is referring you, please ensure you select the Referral Source of 'UCB Employee' and then enter the employee's Name and Berkeley email address in the Specific Referral Source field. Please enter only one name and email.
Other Information

This is a remote-friendly position, eligible for 100% remote capability.

Conviction History Background

This is a designated position requiring fingerprinting and a background check due to the nature of the job responsibilities. Berkeley does hire people with conviction histories and reviews information received in the context of the job responsibilities. The University reserves the right to make employment contingent upon successful completion of the background check.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. For more information about your rights as an applicant see:

https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/migrated_files/employers/poster_screen_reader_optimized.pdf
For the complete University of California nondiscrimination and affirmative action policy see:
http://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000376/NondiscrimAffirmAct



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