Full Stack Software Engineer

Offer Description

Company
The Université catholique de Louvain is a French-speaking university located in six different locations including Charleroi. With a multicultural and multilingual environment, UCL is open to the world and hosts students and researchers from around the world. The university is highly ranked internationally and is a major employer in Wallonia and the Brussels region. UCL operates faculties, research institutes, and administration to fulfill the three missions of teaching, research, and service to society.
e-OMIX is a new project launched a UCLouvain and aims at establishing a new bioinformatic hub for sharing and leveraging omics data (collected from different platforms quantifying cellular molecular content) across different laboratories in Brussels and Wallonia for research and clinical purposes.

Role
•         Build bioinformatics pipelines processing single-omics data (mass spectrometry, high-throughput sequencing, etc.)
•         Implement specific cloud-based storage and computation
•         Develop solutions for the exchange and interoperability of large biological datasets (in accordance with HL7 FHIR standards)
•         Develop and deploy specific modules to optimize experimental workflow, such as Quality Control or sample tracing
•         Help with designing automated or semi-automated statistical analyses
Qualifications
•         PhD in computer science, software engineering, or related field, or Master’s degree with 5-year work experience (senior position) or Master’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or related field (junior position)
•         Demonstrable experience with the following tools:
–         Object-oriented programming (Java or C++)
–         Data science, machine learning (Python), and/or statistical computing (R)
–         Databases (PostgreSQL)
–         Responsive Web applications (Spring, Vue.js, Bootstrap…)
–         Professional software development (e.g., unit testing, version control, continuous integration, release cycles, Git, etc.)
–         Cloud architectures
•         Interest in biological or medical research
•         Ability to work both autonomously and within a team
•         Good written and oral communication skills, English proficiency

Additional assets
•         Experience in biology, bioinformatics, health informatics, or in any position involving biological or medical data
•         Experience with Kubernetes or Docker Swarm
•         Knowledge of R Bioconductor package
•         Familiarity with open-source software distribution

We offer:
•         A collaborative work environment: The project is conjointly led by the Computational Biology (CBIO) and Computer Engineering (INGI) units from UCLouvain and will involve other major academic actors.
•         The collaborator will be partly based in the A6K startup incubator in Charleroi, and partly home-based (with occasional travels to UCLouvain’s Brussels or Louvain-La-Neuve campuses)
•         Flexible workhours
•         Reimbursement of travel expenses

Application
Candidates are invited to send their application (resume and cover letter) at jobs@eomix.be by March 1st 2024.

Requirements

Additional Information

Work Location(s)

Number of offers available 1

Company/Institute UCLouvain

Country Belgium

Where to apply

Website https://jobrxiv.org/job/uclouvain-27778-full-stack-software-engineer/?utm_sourc…

Contact

Website https://www.uclouvain.be