REFRAME Full Stack Developer

REFRAME Full Stack Developer

The Full Stack Developer will be an employee in the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering (BAE) jointly administered by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) and the College of Engineering at NC State University. The department actively contributes to the academic, research, and extension missions of the University.

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This position supports the REFRAME project, a multi‑year, externally funded research initiative led by NC State University. The project aims to deliver a modular, AI‑enabled, open‑source platform for feedstock‑agnostic evaluation of future biomass. It will integrate legacy open‑source models, novel surrogates, shared metadata schemas, and a large language model (LLM) to enhance accessibility for varied stakeholders.

Leveraging well‑characterized agricultural and food processing residues, REFRAME will generate insights into historically underfunded circular biomass streams and provide deployment‑ready tools for end‑to‑end scenario analysis, counterfactual modeling, and decision support across the value chain. The full‑stack developer will play a key role in the front‑end and back‑end development of the digital backbone of this platform in close collaboration with faculty, research staff, and external partners.

• Front‑End (Client‑Side) Development:
  Create visually appealing, responsive, and intuitive user interfaces (UI) and ensure excellent user experience (UX).
• Back‑End (Server‑Side) Development:
  Write clean, functional code for server‑side application logic, and ensure high performance and scalability.
• Database Management:
  Design, create, and manage databases, write efficient queries, and ensure data integrity and security.
• API Development:
  Develop and integrate Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to ensure seamless communication between the front‑end, back‑end, and external services.
• Troubleshooting & Debugging:
  Identify, diagnose, and fix bugs and performance bottlenecks throughout the application stack. Ensure identified vulnerabilities are resolved in a timely manner.

• Server Management:
  Configure and manage servers for development, staging/QA, and production environments.
• Source Code Control:
  Use and support version control through Git Hub Enterprise.
• Manage CI/CD Pipeline:
  Participate in the continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) process.

• Work closely with stakeholders, designers, product managers, and other developers to understand requirements and deliver technical solutions.
• Ensure complete code and solution documentation through inline comments, Git Hub docs, and/or other tools.

• Other duties as assigned.

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or similar field and 1‑2 years of experience OR
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a similar field, and at least 2‑4 years experience in a similar role OR
• An equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Experience in front and back end computer development and as a full stack developer.

• Strong knowledge of HTML & CSS, including responsive design principles.
• Experience with at least one modern framework/library (React.js, Angular, or Next.js).

• Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs or Graph
  
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• Basic understanding of web servers (e.g., Apache,…