Role Overview
The role will work across the technical stack to support scaling and automation of deposition and presentation systems for high volumes of biological image data. You will extend and build on the EMBL-EBI's imaging resources to enable better automation, integrate with high performance computing and storage resources and develop/implement new functionality.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement systems to support rapid deposition, curation and archival of biological image data, including back-end, front-end and supporting infrastructure.
- Develop systems for interactive online exploration of biological image data, working with existing tools, extending these, and developing new solutions as appropriate.
- Act as liaison between the BioImage Archive/EMPIAR and EMBL-EBI's compute/storage infrastructure teams to deploy and manage these systems.
- Coordinate with other service teams on shared development and process implementation.
- Contribute to the broader team activities, including helpdesk support, planning, design review and improvement of the team's software development processes.
Qualifications
- You should have a university degree in computer science, life sciences or a related discipline and have several years' experience in a software development capacity.
- Substantial experience developing full stack applications.
- Extensive hands on experience with Javascript and Python.
- Working with relational databases such as PostGres or MySQL.
- Software development lifecycle, including design, implementation, testing, continuous integration, deployment and version control.
- Working with Linux systems.
Preferred Additional Experience
- Experience designing data systems that operate at scale.
- Experience working with BioImaging data from one or more modalities.
- Experience with NoSQL databases, such as MongoDB.
- Experience with batch scheduling systems such as SLURM.
- Experience with containerisation (e.g. Docker) and container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes).
- Infrastructure as code deployment tools such as Ansible or Terraform.
Contract and Salary
Contract Length: 13-month, project-based, fixed-term contract.
Salary: Grade 5.0 - Monthly salary starting at £3,303 per month after tax but excluding pension and insurance contributions. Plus, generous benefits.
Benefits
- Financial incentives: Monthly family, child and non-resident allowances, annual salary review, pension scheme, death benefit, long-term care, accident-at-work and unemployment insurances.
- Flexible working arrangements - including hybrid working patterns.
- Private medical insurance for you and your immediate family (including all prescriptions and generous dental & optical cover).
- Generous time off: 30 days annual leave per year, in addition public holidays.
- Relocation package including installation grant (if required).
- Campus life: Free shuttle bus to and from work, on site library, subsidised on site gym and cafeteria, casual dress code, extensive sports and social club activities (on campus and remotely).
- Family benefits: On site nursery, 10 days of child sick leave, generous parental leave, holiday clubs on campus and monthly family and child allowances.
- Benefits for non UK residents: Visa exemption, education grant for private schooling, financial support to travel back to your home country every second year and a monthly non-resident allowance.
Diversity & Inclusion
At EMBL, we believe that diverse teams drive innovation and scientific excellence. We encourage applications from candidates of all genders, identities, nationalities and any other diverse backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration regardless of gender, sex, sexual orientation, race, colour, disability, marital status, age or religion.