EpiTrax Outbreak and Exposure Enhancements Developer

About this role

The CDC Foundation seeks a Java developer to enhance Utah's EpiTrax disease surveillance system, focusing on reducing duplicate data entry, automating outbreak tracking, and improving real-time public health response capabilities during high-volume disease events.

What you'll do

• Engineer system enhancements enabling case records to link to multiple outbreaks of the same disease while maintaining data integrity
• Architect automated features that connect cases and contacts to specific outbreaks to reduce manual work and improve surveillance accuracy
• Develop automated task-generation modules to assign and track follow-up actions for public health investigators
• Implement logic to eliminate duplicate data entry across the integrated surveillance system
• Refine and expand data export modules for interoperability with external analysis tools

What they're looking for

• Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) development in Wildfly and Java 17
• MVC design patterns (PrimeFaces, JSF Managed Beans, JPA)
• PostgreSQL database design and management
• XML processing using JAXP
• Git version control
• Agile development methodologies
• System architecture and design
• Data integration and interoperability

Benefits

• $110,000 annual salary
• Health benefits included
• Remote work location
• Position through 12/31/26
• Smoke-free work environment
• Equal employment opportunity employer