Junior/Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

Offer Description

Company

The Université catholique de Louvain is a French-speaking university present in six different locations, including Charleroi. With a multicultural and multilingual environment, UCLouvain is open to the world and hosts students and researchers from around the globe. The university is highly ranked internationally and is a major employer in Wallonia and Brussels. UCLouvain operates faculties, research institutes, and administration to fulfill its 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 leverage omics data (collected from different platforms quantifying cellular molecular content) across different laboratories in Brussels and Wallonia for research and clinical purposes. 

Role

•         Develop solutions for the storage, exchange, and interoperability of large biological datasets.

•         Provide insight on the platform architecture and development.

•         Implement pre-built bioinformatics pipelines processing single- and multiomics data. 

•         Help with designing automated or semi-automated statistical analyses.

•         Develop and deploy specific modules to optimize experimental workflow, such as Quality Control or sample tracing.

•         Supervise and interact with other team members to coordinate project development (junior developer and bioinformaticians).

Requirements

Research Field Engineering » Computer engineering

Education Level Master Degree or equivalent

Skills/Qualifications

Qualifications

•         PhD or master’s degree with at least five years of work experience (senior position), or master’s degree (junior position) in computer science, software engineering, or any related field.

•         Demonstrable experience with the following tools:

–         Object-oriented programming (Python, Java, or C++)

–         Data science, machine learning and/or statistical computing (Python or R) 

–         Databases (PostgreSQL)

–         Responsive Web applications (Spring, Vue.js, Bootstrap, etc.)

–         Cloud architectures

–         Professional software development (e.g., unit testing, version control, continuous integration, release cycles, Git, etc.)

•         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.

•         Containerization (Kubernetes or Docker Swarm) and virtual machines.

•         REST APIs.

•         Health data interoperability standards (HL7 FHIR).

•         Knowledge of R’s Bioconductor environment.

•         Familiarity with open-source software distribution. 

Languages ENGLISH

Level Good

Additional Information

Benefits

Our 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.

•         Hybrid schedule (up to 50% of remote work)

•          On-site work in the A6K startup incubator in Charleroi, with occasional travels to UCLouvain’s Brussels or Louvain-La-Neuve campuses

•         Flexible work hours.

•         Competitive salary.

•         One-year fixed-term contract, with a possibility of extension.

•         Reimbursement of public transportation cost or bike plan.

Additional comments

Candidates are invited to send their application (resume and cover letter, detailing their technical skills and professional experience) by e-mail,

Website for additional job details https://www.eomix.be/

Work Location(s)

Number of offers available 2

Company/Institute UCLouvain

Country Belgium

City Charleroi

Postal Code 6000

Street Square des Martyrs du 18 Août

Where to apply

E-mail jobs@eomix.be

Contact

City Louvain la Neuve

Website https://uclouvain.be/

Street Place du Levant 1