[Hiring] Senior Java Developer @1000 European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Mar 26, 2025 - 1000 European Molecular Biology Laboratory is hiring a remote Senior Java Developer. 💸 Salary: grade 5 or 6, monthly salary at £3,229 or £3,612 after tax. 📍Location: UK.
Role Description
We are seeking to recruit a senior software developer to work within the ITS Operations team at EMBL-EBI. As well as being a hands-on developer, you will help drive the evolution of the software-defined file archive (FIRE) and the job dispatcher software products.
You will be working in the ITS Operations team which is one of five teams in the IT & Technical Services (ITS) section. Our team provides the rich and varied services and expertise underpinning all the work EMBL-EBI. The team is responsible for the development, continuous improvement, scaling and effective operation of some of the most heavily used developmental and production resources underpinning the EMBL-EBI public-facing scientific services.
Key tasks of this role include:
- Designing and implementing new features
- Maintaining existing features
- Identifying and developing appropriate test automation
- Identifying improvements and implementing changes to help both services grow in quality and user experience
- Writing, testing, and reviewing code to ensure the service delivers as expected
- Building appropriate automated testing
- Planning long-term development and organizing the product roadmaps and backlogs
- Collaborating with the team and aligning activities with stakeholders
- Contributing to internal and user-facing documentation
- Assisting teams using FIRE or Job Dispatcher to troubleshoot L3 support issues
- Contributing to discussion and developing and extending internal tools to streamline and automate CI/CD workflows
- Seeking ways to maintain and improve the overall performance of the services
- Assisting in generating forecast reports and capacity planning strategies to support QoS
- Keeping up to date with software engineering best practices and sharing these with the team
Qualifications
- IT-related degree or equivalent experience
- Ability to write clean, maintainable, and testable code following industry best practices
- Experience with RESTful API development and microservices architecture
- Demonstrable experience developing in Java
- Experience developing and maintaining Angular-based user-interfaces
- Strong knowledge of version control systems, especially Git
- Ability to use the Spring framework (Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data)
- Strong understanding of relational databases and experience with database management systems like MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Oracle
- Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitLab CI, Jenkins, or CircleCI
- Exposure to agile development practices, including sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Requirements
- Perform code reviews, ensure adherence to coding standards, and mentor junior developers
- Implement unit testing and integration testing to ensure code reliability
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
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Salary
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grade 5 or 6, monthly salary at £3,229 or £3,612 after tax
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Remote
Location
UK
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Job Type
full-time
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Posted
Mar 26, 2025
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| 📍 | Be aware of the location restriction for this remote position: UK |
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