Research Software Engineer I

🇺🇸 Gainesville, Florida 🕑 Full-Time 💰 TBD 💻 Software Engineering 🗓️ September 3rd, 2026

Python Node.js PostgreSQL

Edtech.com's Summary

University of Florida is hiring a Research Software Engineer I. This role develops and maintains web-based climate and agricultural applications on AgroClimate.org, including new tools for evaluating weather extremes probabilities. The engineer also maintains disease alert systems for strawberry, blueberry, and citrus crops, and builds and maintains APIs and databases supporting the NASS-DSS platform.

Highlights

Develop and implement new features for the Climate Indicators tool on AgroClimate.org.
Maintain and improve cloud-hosted disease alert systems for strawberry, blueberry, and citrus crops.
Upgrade database connections to work with point weather station and gridded weather data.
Build and maintain the NASS-DSS API and develop new APIs as needed.
Use modern JavaScript frameworks such as Angular and Vue.js for front-end development.
Design RESTful APIs and back-end services in Node.js and Python.
Work with PostgreSQL and MongoDB for schema design and data modeling.
Deploy and maintain applications on AWS and GCP cloud environments.
Bachelor's degree in computer or physical science, statistics, bioinformatics, or a related field with two years of experience, or a related Master's degree.