Position: Software Engineer
Location: Pune
ACS-I India is looking for an experienced Software Engineer with broad relevant experience in maintaining and extending complex applications. You would be part of a team in an Operations and Support function, working with an experienced team of highly motivated individuals, supporting core CAS business functions
About ACS-I India
ACS International India Pvt Ltd. (ACS-I India) is a wholly owned subsidiary of ACS International Ltd, USA and a part of the American Chemical Society. ACS-I India represent products and services provided by ACS divisions, including Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) to the world's most important scientific companies, government organizations, global patent offices and academic institutions to promote research and discovery.
About CAS
Chemical Abstracts Service is a division of the American Chemical Society. It is a source of chemical information. The Company provides products and services, solutions for researchers and professional researchers, and support and training. CAS has provided the most comprehensive repository of research in chemistry and related sciences for over 100 years. The CAS finds, collects and organizes all publicly disclosed substance information and creates the world's most valuable chemistry databases. Scientist and patent professionals across the world rely on this database.
Job Responsibilities
- Software Engineer is responsible for developing Life Sciences content curation and delivery system for the purpose of building life sciences databases that empower CAS proprietary life sciences search technologies. This role encompasses developing and deploying scientific software solutions in the life sciences information space to support transformational initiatives, delivering both short and long-term results to the business.
- Software development of web-based workbenches in support of scientific content curation. Combines strong software development skills with a working knowledge of basic chemistry/physics/biology to develop sophisticated informatics solutions that drive efficiencies in content curation and workflow process. Applies web application development capabilities to contribute to the building of new scientific information management systems supporting in-house custom scientific database curation activities.
Job Requirements
- 4-year degree in computer science, engineering, informatics, or equivalent experience
- Minimum of 7 years of software development experience
- Proficiency in programming languages such as JavaScript/Typescript
- Proficiency in Linux/Unix environments
- Experience with HTML/CSS
- 2+ years of experience in the full software development lifecycle building applications leveraging Angular 14 or later
- Experience working directly with end users
- Experience in the full software development lifecycle implementing applications using Node.js 16 or later is highly desired
- Experience building applications for public cloud environments (AWS preferred) is highly desired
- Experience building containerized applications (Docker, Kubernetes) is highly desired
- Experience with CI/CD. Experience with AWS DevOps tools (CodeCommit, Cloud Development Kit, CDK Pipelines) is highly desired
- Experience with XML is a plus
- Strong communication, organizational savvy, interpersonal skills
- Self-motivated with the ability to work with minimal supervision
Innovates and continuously improves; focuses on areas of highest potential.
