2 software developers at INES/ICOS Carbon Portal

ICOS Carbon Portal (hosted by Lund University) is part of ICOS (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.

We are looking for two software developers to expand our development team.

At the Carbon Portal we use the following technologies (prior experience not required) :

• Back end development: Scala, Akka
• Metadata management: RDF, OWL, SPARQL, RDF4J, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
• Deployment environments: Linux, docker, lxd
• CMS for ICOS websites: Drupal, wordpress
• Document management system: NextCloud
• Front end development: Typescript/Javascript, React JS, ScalaJS[JT1]
• Scripting and scientific data access: Python, Scala-CLI, Bash

Work duties

You will maintain and further develop back-end and/or front-end systems underlying the core Carbon Portal services. We are a group of 18 scientists and developers, but you will work in a small team with 4 other developers and an operations engineer. 

Qualifications

• Several years of experience or a university degree in computer science
• Professional experience with Java, Scala, or similar languages
• At least basic knowledge of HTTP protocol, Linux, SQL
• Willingness to start working on existing mature codebases
• Ability and desire to learn in general and from your peers in particular
• 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
• Familiarity with SPARQL, RDF, OWL, triple stores
• 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.

Even if You don’t meet all the requirements, but you feel You would be a great fit to our team? Don’t hesitate to apply!

Terms of employment
Both positions are fulltime permanent positions with preferred start date as soon as possible. A probationary period of 6 months will be applied.  

Instructions on how to apply
A full applications shall include

• a cover letter stating the reasons why you are interested in the position and in what way the employment corresponds to your qualifications.
• a CV,
• degree certificate or equivalent, and other documents you wish to be considered (grade transcripts, contact information for your references, letters of recommendation, etc.).

Lund University applies individual salary setting. Please state salary requirements in your application.

Welcome to apply!