BACKGROUND

We are looking for a software developer to join the Swiss-Prot group at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) in Geneva, Switzerland.
The SIB is an academic not-for-profit foundation whose mission is to promote research, the development of databanks and computer technologies, teaching and service activities in the field of bioinformatics, in Switzerland with international collaborations.

RESPONSIBILITIES

We offer a full-time position in a dynamic and interdisciplinary group of software engineers, bioinformaticians and biologists (http://expasy.org/people/swissprot.html). The successful candidate will be responsible for maintaining and extending the new official UniProt web site (http://beta.uniprot.org) and the RDF distribution of the UniProt database (http://dev.isb-sib.ch/projects/uniprot-rdf/).

REQUIREMENTS

Applicants must be fluent in Java and English, have experience with building and setting up web applications, and be able to demonstrate an interest in the life sciences domain, semantic web standards, search engine design and interacting with users e.g. via usability tests. The project involves working with various open source libraries and tools, including Lucene, Struts, Tomcat, etc.

TERMS

Contract: long term position
Starting date: as soon as possible
Place of work: Geneva, Switzerland

The position is open to Swiss citizens, valid working permit holders or citizens of the European Union.

HOW TO APPLY

Applicants should submit until August 31st, 2007 a cover letter, a curriculum vita with pointers to any relevant work, and a brief review of the beta.uniprot.org site to:

HR "Web Developer"
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
1 rue Michel-Servet
1211 Geneva 4
Switzerland

or by e-mail: laure.verbregue[at]isb-sib.ch
(mention "Web Developer" in the e-mail subject line)

DEADLINE

August 31st, 2007

Original job ad: http://www.isb-sib.ch/infos/careers_070625.htm