New position open—Application Developer (Data Analysis)

By Team eBird 5 May 2016
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With more than 300 million records, eBird is one of the largest biodiversity databases in the world. We have a new application developer position open that focuses on making use of these data, developing software and data products to ensure these data are available and appropriately used to the maximum extent by researchers and conservationists. This includes implementing the STEM workflow that produces maps of bird distribution every week of the year — while sometimes thought of as “animated maps” these data rich resources provide a wealth of information for researchers and conservationists. Key responsibilities for this position are to develop, test, code and maintain the data resources for data intensive analysis processes run on high performance computing systems. Applicants should be familiar with software development tools including R, Hadoop, Eclipse-based IDEs, team code repositories and open source libraries. Software produced by the Information Science and Technology Program generally uses R, Java, JSP, JavaScript, with an Oracle backend. This position is part of the analysis team in Information Science and will work with a broad and dynamic team of biologists, statisticians, computer scientists, application developers, and database administrators within a collaborative development environment. Find our more about this position and other open positions including Android Application Developer, Data Services DeveloperWeb Service Developer and IT Team Lead (Systems Administrator) in our list of Jobs at eBird.