Software Engineer

EMBL-EBI - European Bioinformatics Institute

Hinxton, United Kingdom

We are looking for a Software engineer with strong record in software development and interested in developing services for one of the most internationally used data resources in biological science, UniProt. Our team is very dynamic and interdisciplinary comprising talented and enthusiastic software engineers and bioinformaticians working closely together with biologists and scientists. The UniProt resource is one of the most internationally used protein databases serving a large and diverse research community in genomics, proteins and proteomics.

As part of your daily work, you will be designing and developing software and APIs for the UniProt data services and website, providing protein information to the scientific community and computational biologists. You will also be working in the design, maintenance and monitoring of the website cloud infrastructure. Scalability will be an important feature of your clear, concise, well tested and documented code. You will also be interested in applying analytic engines and technical approaches to distributed processing of big data. The ability to work towards tight deadlines is essential.

You have

A degree in Computer Science or related discipline;
Software Engineer with at least 3 years of professional experience in software development in web back-end development;
Experience in web cloud infrastructure;
Experience in Agile processes;
Good communication skills;
Experience in Java development;
Experience in developing RESTful services;
Experience in developing application using SpringBoot;
Experience in developing web infrastructure (Solr, kubernetes);
Experience in git and basic Unix Commands.