Full Stack Developer

Our Core Values 

Our core values define who we are as an organization and serve as the foundation of our code of ethics. Arbor Research expects all employees to embody and demonstrate in our day-to-day work.

• Collaborative Spirit: We expect each staff member to learn from and teach one another and ask each to exhibit curiosity and respect for the contributions of others.
• Creativity:We strive to cultivate a challenging, stimulating, and supportive environment where our employees are expected to be inquisitive, take the initiative, and demonstrate ingenuity.
• Credibility:Our employees are smart, thoughtful, and objective in their work. We expect them to be technically solid in their area of expertise and for those researching to demonstrate scientific rigor.
• Dedication:Our team achieves success because of our dedication to carrying out high-quality work and delivering trusted results.

Position Summary

The Full Stack Developer position uses client-side, server-side, and database tools and methodologies to develop web applications from concept to finished product, including front-end and back-end. In addition to full-stack web development, this position works with project-specific data structures and relational database design, applying the standardized coding, data architecture, and analytic programming practices used across Arbor Research's funded projects. The developer collaborates with business stakeholders and technical leads to understand needs and translate them into technical requirements, growing toward full ownership of application and data architecture decisions.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Full-Stack Web Development

• Provide programming support for web applications, using Azure-based Microsoft technologies such as ASP.NET, C#, HTML/CSS, JavaScript/jQuery libraries, and relational SQL databases, including Microsoft SQL Server.
• Build data visualizations (charts, graphs, dashboards) using tools similar to D3.js, Plotly, or Tableau.
• Build and maintain APIs using technologies such as ASP.NET Web API or Azure Functions, with guidance from senior staff on authentication and scalability requirements.
• Build responsive, mobile-friendly application interfaces that meet Section 508 / WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standards, consistent with current federal contract requirements.
• Leverage AI (e.g. Claude Code) as both a tool to aid software development and a component for solutions, following organizational guidance and controls.

Data & Database Architecture

• Develop and utilize advanced knowledge of project-specific data structure and organization, study protocol, and research design; analyze user requirements and translate them into implementation design.
• Implement code using relational database theory and technologies, including database design, views, functions, stored procedures, and security controls, with referential integrity in mind.
• Assist in making technical decisions and implementing logic plans for projects of medium complexity for a technical audience, using pseudo code as necessary.
• Work as part of a team to analyze and respond to questions posed by data requesters and funding sources; independently and efficiently accomplish quick-turnaround data requests for funding sources and the public.
• Take initiative in leading new data-related and full-stack development projects as capability grows.

Data Engineering & Cloud

• Support data pipelines, data acquisition, and transformation tasks for funded projects, under the direction of senior staff.
• Support cloud-hosted application and data environments, primarily on Microsoft Azure, building familiarity with AWS as project needs require.

Collaboration & Development

• Work collaboratively with both internal and external research personnel, including co-investigators of varying backgrounds and expertise, to understand needs and implement agreed-upon interface and data requirements.
• Collaborate with analysts and supervisors to ensure accuracy of data analyses and dataset creation, and with other programming staff to maintain and enhance major project products.
• Achieve quality in software development work through well-defined testing and verification procedures; follow the application development staging process; effectively debug their own code and other programmers' code.
• Discuss projects of medium complexity with technical and non-technical audiences; contribute to the discussion and planning of more complex projects.
• Develop and utilize leadership skills; take initiative in mentoring more junior team members as experience grows.
• Display a professional and exemplary work and research ethic.

Additional Duties Completed by Those Serving in a Technical Lead Capacity

• Serve as technical lead programmer for one or more projects.
• Provide technical oversight to programmers with assignments on the project.
• Coordinate with members from other teams to ensure the project requirements are met.
• Formulate a written project plan, which ties the technical tasks to the project scope.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's degree with at least five (5) years of progressively more responsible programming experience, including web application development and either SAS or SQL-based relational database technologies.
• Familiarity with Microsoft ASP.Net coding (including design and debugging).
• Working knowledge of HTML, XML, JSON, CSS, JavaScript/jQuery, and RESTful APIs.
• Working knowledge of T-SQL and relational database structure and referential integrity, including database design, views, functions, stored procedures, and security controls.
• Demonstrated ability to write code that is clearly readable and efficient, and to analyze and translate user requirements into implementation design.
• Exposure to Python or a comparable language for data engineering, automation, or ETL pipeline tasks.
• Basic familiarity with cloud application hosting concepts (Microsoft Azure preferred).
• Excellent understanding of statistical concepts and fluency in analytical approaches for health care outcomes.
• Excellent organizational skills; ability to work as part of a team.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Exposure to Microsoft Azure cloud services and DevOps; familiarity with AWS is a plus.
• Exposure to Plotly.js/D3 client-side charting and mapping frameworks.
• Exposure to content management tools, such as WordPress.
• Exposure to Tableau web-based data visualization software.
• Familiarity with Microsoft SharePoint configuration and information management.
• Experience with SAS (Base, Macro processing, PROC SQL) for statistical/analytic programming.
• Experience with health insurance claims data.
• Exposure to HL7/FHIR standards for clinical and administrative health data transfer.
• Non-profit experience; health research background.
• Experience with formal software development lifecycle processes.