Bioinformatics Software Engineeer

Job ID: EBI_01228
Job date: 2018-05-24
End Date: 2018-06-24

Company : EMBL 

Country : United Kingdom 

Role : Technician 


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Job Description:
We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, highly motivated Bioinformatics Software Engineer to work at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) located at the Wellcome Genome Campus near Cambridge in the UK.

You will be working in the highly dynamic Web Production Team led by Rodrigo Lopez, across a number of activities aimed at providing and improving access to bioinformatics core services including text search and biological sequence analysis tools. You will be experienced with software development technologies and best practices (i.e. Agile/DevOps). Prior knowledge of bioinformatics data and tools as is experience with visualisation frameworks based on SVG/JavaScript is highly desirable.

The Web Production team provides robust and reliable services to the community. You will be working with 11 highly skilled professionals that provide robust services and support a fast growing audience of scientists from around the world. You will be highly visible and participate regularly in internal and external training and dissemination events such as seminars, workshops and conferences at the international level.

Qualifications and Experience:

You will have a Master’s or higher degree in computer science, software development or have equivalent qualifications. You will be required to document your experience in full-stack web applications development (i.e. back-end and front-end tiers, including web-based clients, programmatic access APIs, and data access layers). Java, Python, C and C++ technologies and frameworks (e.g. Spring) are widely used within the organization, so experience with these is required as well as with CI/CD methodologies.

The ability to work within a team is critical to this position and excellent English communication skills, verbal and written are essential. You will be required to communicate technical documents, take part in the daily Scrum, as well as provide user orientated communication with external and internal users of the systems. An ability to work to tight deadlines is essential.

Required:

  • Expert knowledge of Java and Spring (MVC, Security, Integration) and related technologies
  • Experience in Web Services technologies (REST, SOAP, AWS, CWL, etc.) and API driven development and PaaS solutions
  • A good knowledge of modern front-end technologies such as AngularJS
  • Use of version control (e.g. Git, subversion) and experience of gitlab CI/CD methodologies
  • Experience using high performance computing frameworks such as Hadoop, Condor, Apache Spark or IBM/LSF.
  • Experience with running and troubleshooting web application servers (e.g. Java web containers such as Tomcat)
  • Experience in communicating and working with expert users (e.g. in a science community) in a co-development model.


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Additional Info:
Location: Hinxton

Salary: Grade 5 or 6.

Hours: Full Time

Contract Type: Fixed-Term/Contract

Placed on: 22nd May 2018

Closes: 24th June 2018

Job Ref: EBI_01228

Contract Duration: 3 years

Grading: 5 or 6 -

The EMBL-EBI is part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and it is a world-leading bioinformatics centre providing biological data to the scientific community with expertise in data storage, analysis and representation. EMBL-EBI provides freely available data from life science experiments, performs basic research in computational biology and offers an extensive user training programme, supporting researchers in the academic and industrial sectors.

You will be able to pay attention to detail but also meet deadlines. You will also demonstrate innovation and a willingness to take on new challenges and a passion for code development and making software that can be used. You have the knowledge and experience to make technical decisions with minimal supervision.

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