Benchling Developer

BCforward is seeking a highly motivated Benchling Developer to support their pharmaceutical client’s facilities in Indianapolis and/or Boston. Expected Duration: Long Term Location: Indianapolis, IN or Boston, MA; hybrid Job Description The candidate will be responsible for gathering and prioritizing requirements from highly intelligent scientists. This developer will need to differentiate requirements that are critical and non-critical. Must have excellent analysis skills and ability to understand system inter-dependencies to ensure minimal impacts when implementing system changes. Services and Deliverables: • Develop new notebook templates, components and tools to improve coverage of experimental workflows in Benchling. • Translate scientific requirements into viable IT solutions. • Communicate with scientists to clearly define experimental workflow data requirements. • Develop dashboards that provide clarity into the status and quality of experimental workflows. • Train scientists on the use of Benchling along with the developed workflows and system requirements. • Provide technical support and troubleshooting capabilities for scientists. • Build data connections between systems such as Benchling, Biologica, Research data and data visualization and analysis platforms. Required Skills: • Good communication skills and desire to learn - learning agility • Strong problem-solving abilities • Benchling • Lab automation experience a plus • Programming skills: • Python • JavaScript, CSS, HTML • Databases (relational DB minimally, with knowledge of relational schemas and normalization) • SQL Minimum Skills to start immediately contributing: • Django or Flask • Gunicorn (Green Unicorn\Python) and NGINX • Testing in Python • RESTful services • git and GitHub Preferred Experience/Knowledge in the following to be highly effective: • Django-rest-framework • Docker • AWS • Jenkins and CI/CD • Pandas, Numpy, SciPy, etc. • Biology • Bioinformatics • Python packaging • React + Redux Would be nice additions to the skills above: • Airflow • React • Machine Learning • OLAP (Redshift, Netezza) • Hadoop, Spark Additional Skills /Preferences: • LIMS experience • Postgres • Ability to listen and gather requirements from scientists • Ability to communicate ideas clearly • Creative, detail-oriented and organized