Application Programmer

The Stowers Institute has an opening for an Application Programmer who will work as part of the Application Development team.   

Responsibilities include:

• Designing and developing within a custom Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) using test-driven development (TDD) and continuous integration principles
• Development and maintenance of applications for storing, tracking, and visualizing laboratory requests and data
• Implementing fixes and improvements based on end-user feedback
• Working with the development team using agile/scrum methodologies to develop and deliver software
• Importantly, the developer will be in a user/customer facing role working directly with users and should be comfortable with providing a high-quality customer service experience.

Successful candidates will have strong communication skills and the ability to actively participate in interdisciplinary teams; the ability to prioritize management of projects/time; demonstrate the capability of high performance in independent work as well as in a team setting; maintain a high degree of initiative, accuracy, and attention to detail; and exhibit creative and out-of-the-box thinking skills.

Minimum requirements include:

• Undergraduate degree in computer science or equivalent experience working in the IT or computer science fields
• Experience with Object Oriented PHP7, Javascript
• Experience with PHP and Javascript MVC frameworks
• Relational database design and development (MySQL, etc.)
• Working knowledge of HTML5/CSS

Additional preferred technical skills include experience with:

• Symfony
• Doctrine ORM
• ExtJS
• PHPUnit
• Atlassian products (Jira, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Confluence)