Full Stack Developer

About this role

Department

Globus Labs

About the Department

Globus (www.globus.org) is a sustainable, non-profit unit within The University of Chicago delivering solutions to the research community worldwide. Globus develops and provides critical services that support scientific research for governmental, academic, and commercial organizations in a wide range of disciplines including life sciences, physics, and astronomy. We develop and operate commercial-quality, cloud-based software application and platform services used by 10s of thousands of researchers to manage their large–and growing–data management challenges. We have offices located at the NBC Tower in the heart of downtown Chicago and remote employees who work-from-home. Globus, together with Globus Labs, a research group within the University of Chicago, and part of the Data Science and Learning Division at Argonne National Labs, develop and deploy cutting edge technologies to solve new challenges facing the scientific community and enable break-through scientific discoveries.

Job Summary

As a member of the Globus team, the candidate will contribute to the design and development of hybrid agentic middleware. This is a full-stack engineering role focused on building production-quality cloud services that are used by thousands of researchers and serve as critical components in major U.S. cross-agency data and AI for Science initiatives. The candidate will also collaborate with domain scientists to develop and deploy agentic systems that address real-world challenges in materials science, chemistry, biology, X-ray science, and related fields.

The successful candidate will play a key role in both the development and application of agentic middleware, working closely with a multidisciplinary team of software engineers and researchers. Responsibilities include designing and implementing full-stack applications, spanning backend services, APIs, and open-source software, with a primary focus on Python-based...