[Employment] EMBL-EBI Software engineer

[Rodrigo Lopez]

Software Engineer

Grade: 6 or 7, depending on experience and qualifications

EMBL site: EMBL-EBI Hinxton

Commencing date: asap

Job description: A central goal of the EBI is to provide a comprehensive 
and reliable set of network services for data retrieval and 
computational analysis of biological data. These services are highly 
visible to the molecular biology research community and require constant 
support and development to remain state-of-the-art. We are currently 
recruiting a software engineer to join our External Services team and 
help develop our range of bioinformatics network services.

For further information about the External Services team, please see our 
website, http://www.ebi.ac.uk/.

Qualifications and experience: The successful candidate must be fluent 
in Perl and Java development as well as being well acquainted with Unix, 
Linux and web servers such as Apache and Tomcat. A university degree in 
a computer science-related subject and at least one year’s practical 
experience is essential (or relevant work experience) as is experience 
in the development and maintenance of web-based bioinformatics 
applications (ideally development and deployment of SOAP/REST-based web 
services). Good communication skills, the ability to work independently 
as part of a wider team and a desire to provide a service for users are 
required.

Contract: An initial contract of 3 years will be offered to the 
successful candidate. This can be renewed, depending on circumstances at 
the time of review.

Closing date: 30 October 2007

Web page: http://www.ebi.ac.uk

EMBL is an inclusive, equal opportunity employer offering attractive 
conditions and benefits appropriate to an international research 
organisation.

Please note that EMBL does not return CVs or attached documents to 
applicants.

General enquiries may be sent to applications from ebi.ac.uk or to the 
following address:

Personnel, EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, CB10 1SD.






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