Software Engineer

EMBL-EBI - European Bioinformatics Institute

Hinxton, United Kingdom

We are seeking a talented Software Engineer to join our Protein Function development team at EMBL-EBI. In this role, you'll drive the software design and development for two world-class scientific resources: GlyGen, a leading platform in GlycoScience, and UniProt, one of the most prominent services in the field of biology and biomedicine. This is an exciting role that will help develop world’s leading scientific resources, collaborating with international teams across Europe and the US. You will be based in a dynamic, multidisciplinary environment, working alongside excellent software engineers, bioinformaticians and scientists to advance these critical resources.

Your role

In your role as a software engineer, your main responsibility will be architecting and developing robust software modules and scalable workflows for efficient data exchange, integration and management of the ever-growing volume of scientific information. You will serve as the technical liaison, facilitating communication between these resources.

You have

Good communication skills;
English language skills are essential;
Ideally, you have already gained experience in a multilingual working environment;
Enjoy working in an international environment;
A degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Life Sciences or a related discipline;
At least 2 years professional software development experience in Java;
Experience in Java programming;
Familiar with standard development tools (continuous integration e.g. Jenkins, build management e.g. Maven, and source code management systems e.g. GIT, etc.);
Understanding of good coding practices and approaches (OOP, IoC, automated testing, clean code principles, code review);
Familiarity with SQL and relational database design principles, Unix shell scripting;
Ability to work as part of a team of people with a range of skills and a diversity of backgrounds.