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[Hiring] Software Engineer @1000 European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Mar 30, 2025 - 1000 European Molecular Biology Laboratory is hiring a remote Software Engineer. 💸 Salary: starting at £3,229 or £3,612 after tax. 📍Location: UK.
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Role Description
We are looking for a software engineer who will join the Technical Transformation team at EBI that has been tasked with modernising the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA), a petabyte-scale public database of genomic sequences, one of the largest scientific data resources in the world.
Your role involves:
- Joining a team of software engineers responsible for the design, development, and operations of high-throughput pipelines necessary to ensure that ENA can support scientists worldwide.
- Working together with ENA’s development and operational teams, EBI’s IT and Technical services teams, and the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC).
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Designing, developing, and refactoring the data persistence modules and associated workflows, utilising various storage types available in the EBI technical infrastructure, including:
- Object stores
- POSIX file systems with different performance characteristics
- Relational and document databases
Qualifications
- At least 6 years professional software development experience using Java and Spring framework.
- Experience using workflow management systems and distributed data processing software (e.g., Hadoop, Spark).
- At least 6 years professional experience with large scale databases (e.g., Oracle, MongoDB).
- Understanding of and willingness to work on frontend development.
- Excellent knowledge of the UNIX command line.
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Experience with modern software development practices, including:
- Continuous integration and deployment
- Application of various software testing principles, processes, and tools
- System monitoring
- Ability to work as part of a team with a range of skills and a diversity of backgrounds.
Requirements
- Experience working in a multidisciplinary scientific environment.
- Experience in handling and processing large files.
- Experience with sequence data and sequence data formats (incl. FASTQ, BAM, CRAM, SRA).
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 to 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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Software Development
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starting at £3,229 or £3,612 after tax
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Location
UK
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Job Type
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Posted
Mar 30, 2025
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