Software Engineer

Lund University was founded in 1666 and is repeatedly ranked among the world’s top 100 universities. The University has 40 000 students and 7 600 staff based in Lund, Helsingborg and Malmö. We are united in our efforts to understand, explain and improve our world and the human condition.

MAX IV is a Swedish national large-scale research laboratory hosted by Lund University. It provides scientists from Sweden as well as internationally, with state-of-the-art instrumentation for research in areas such as engineering, physics, structural biology, chemistry and nanotechnology. Fully developed it will receive more than 2 000 scientists annually, conducting ground-breaking experiments in materials and life sciences using the brilliant X-ray light.

The MAX IV Controls and IT team (KITS) deliver solutions to the whole MAX IV organisation in the areas of control system hardware, controls software applications, infrastructure and networking, information management and scientific software. This is a dynamic and highly challenging environment and requires close collaboration with the staff in order to understand the needs and be effective in forming solutions. We are around 50 people in total who work in 5 domains in a well organised and agile way. We hold values of lean management, knowledge spread, user autonomy, continuous improvement and flexibility as guiding principles for our work.

As part of the Information Management Systems team you will be in a unique position to help the scientific community collect research data, make data available to researchers world-wide and make an impact on how information is managed within the research environment.

Our team has a broad skill set and considerable opportunity to learn and grow, both as a professional and an individual.

We are looking for self-starters with a passion for learning new technologies. In your new role you will contribute to the development of a new ‘User Office System’ that facilitates researchers apply for beam time at MAX IV. You will also take part in the other activities of the team that includes development and maintenance of web tools, representing the team in various forums internally and externally and assisting various MAX IV departments with their IT needs. We value team players committed to the goals of the team. We also appreciate accountability, ability to listen to different viewpoints and a positive mindset.

Requirements:

- A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related
- A few years experience as a professional full stack developer
- Experience with RDBMS/NoSQL databases and sql
- Education/skills with Linux
- Strong communication skills, fluent in English

Desirable:

- Experience in Nodejs, Javascript, Typescript, ES6, React, PostgreSQL
- Experience in GraphQL, REST
- Experience with Docker, Ansible, git, Continuous Integration, Agile
- Experience in event driven architecture, RabbitMQ
- Experince in migrating data from legacy systems

Probation period may apply.

On call services may apply in the future.

Lund University welcomes applicants with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We regard gender equality and diversity as a strength and an asset. We kindly decline all sales and marketing contacts.

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