Software developer at INES/ICOS Carbon Portal - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

ICOS Carbon Portal is hosted by the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Sciences and is part of ICOS ERIC, the legal entity of the Integrated Carbon Observation System that provides high quality long-term measurements of greenhouse gas exchange in the domains of atmosphere, ecosystems and ocean.  Carbon Portal offers open access to all ICOS high-quality and standardised greenhouse gas data, as well as scientific and educational products produced by our scientific users. The Carbon Portal is thus a 'one-stop shop' for all ICOS data products. Carbon Portal also (co-)develops web services for the user community that support the scientific exploration of the data.

Work duties

We are looking for a software developer to expand our development team. We are a group of 18 scientists and developers, but you will work in a small team with 3 other developers and an operations engineer. The position will be permanent with a 6-month probation period.

You will maintain and further develop the back-end systems underlying the core Carbon Portal services. You will mainly use:

• Back-end development: Scala, Akka
• Metadata: RDF, OWL, SPARQL, RDF4J, PostgreSQL/PostGIS

We also use:

• Deployment environments: Ubuntu Linux, Docker, LXD
• Data storage: Linux file system, iRODS, EUDAT/CDI B2SAFE
• Front-end: Typescript/Javascript, React JS, ScalaJS

Our work is open-sourced on GitHub and you would mostly work on these two repositories https://github.com/ICOS-Carbon-Portal/meta and https://github.com/ICOS-Carbon-Portal/data. You can see them in production at https://data.icos-cp.eu/. You can also read more about ICOS on our website.

Qualifications

• Several years of programming experience or a degree in computer science
• Experience with Scala, Java, or similar languages
• Familiarity with SPARQL, RDF, OWL, triple stores or desire to learn these technologies
• Basic knowledge of HTTP protocol, Linux, SQL
• Willingness to work on a mature codebase
• Desire to learn and share knowledge with your peers
• Fluent in written and spoken English.

Other merits

• Experience in anything of the following: Ansible, Linux administration, Bash, Python, PHP, public key cryptography and TLS certs, scientific data, binary data formats
• Interest in other non-mainstream programming languages
• Experience with functional programming
• Preference for statically-typed languages
• Link to a public repository with your code contributions

We will place great emphasis on personal suitability. Consideration will also be given to good collaborative skills, drive and independence.

Working conditions and compensation

• Agile development with freedom to organise your work as you see fit
• Flexible working hours, low-stress environment
• Generous vacation and employer’s contribution to your future pension funds
• Health care provider and support available
• Salary will depend on your competence level. We’ll aim at meeting your value on the job market. Salary reviews are performed yearly

Terms of employment

Permanent position with preferred start date of 1 June 2021. A probationary period of 6 months can be applicable.

The scope of the employment is full time.

Contact person is Alex Vermeulen (alex.vermeulen@nateko.lu.se), tel +46 46 222 9298.

Instructions on how to apply

Applications should include a cover letter stating the reasons why you are interested in the position and in what way the employment corresponds to your qualifications. The application should also contain a CV, degree certificate or equivalent. Incomplete applications will not be considered.

Please feel free to add any other documents you wish to be considered (grade transcripts, contact information for your references, letters of recommendation, etc.).

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