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# Software Engineer

- **Company:** EMBL EBI
- **Location:** Hinxton, UK
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** £41,425.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Agile Methodology, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Data as a Services, Distributed Computing Environment, Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, Apache Solr, Unix Commands, Apache Spark, Spring-boot, Backend, Git, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Restful APIs
- **Published:** July 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/software-engineer/embl-ebi-job107727885

## About the Role

* A degree in Computer Science or related discipline
 * Software Engineer with at least 3 years of professional experience in software development in web back-end development
 * Experience in web cloud infrastructure
 * Experience in Agile processes
 * Good communication skills
 * Experience in Java and/or Python development
 * Experience in developing RESTful services
 * Experience in developing application using SpringBoot
 * Experience in developing web infrastructure (Solr, kubernetes)
 * Experience with Key value stores
 * Experience in git and basic Unix Commands

You might also have (Desirable)

 * Experience with large data processing technologies (Apache Spark)

## Description

We are looking for a Software engineer with strong record in software development and interested in developing services for one of the most internationally used data resources in biological science, UniProt. Our team is very dynamic and interdisciplinary comprising talented and enthusiastic software engineers and bioinformaticians working closely together with biologists and scientists., As part of your daily work, you will be designing and developing software and APIs for the UniProt data services and website, providing protein information to the scientific community and computational biologists. You will also be working in the design, maintenance and monitoring of the website cloud infrastructure. Scalability will be an important feature of your clear, concise, well tested and documented code. You will also be interested in applying analytic engines and technical approaches to distributed processing of big data. The ability to work towards tight deadlines is essential.


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