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In this role, you will enhance the MediaDive web application, work on data standardization integration, and design user-friendly tools for microbiological research.
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Your role in the team
- As a developer for MediaDive, you will be responsible for maintaining, expanding, and modernizing the web application, APIs, and underlying database infrastructure.
- Together with the DSMZ team of biologists and software engineers, as well as partners within the NFDI4Microbiota consortium, you will develop new features and align services with the needs of the microbiological research community.
- Further development of the MediaDive web application, backend, and RESTful API.
- Expanding data standardization, ontology integration, and FAIRness of cultivation data within the framework of the NFDI4Microbiota project.
- Coordinate the development of MediaDive with other resources of the DSMZ Digital Diversity platform and external NFDI services.
- Developing user-friendly tools for recipe calculation, media prediction, and data visualization.
Our expectations of you
Education
- Master's degree (or equivalent) in computer science, bioinformatics, or a related field.
Qualifications
- Strong programming skills in backend and frontend web development.
- Interest in microbiological data, data standardization (FAIR principles), and ontologies is beneficial.
- Accuracy, quality orientation, and a structured approach to work.
- Intrinsic motivation and team spirit.
- Fluent in English / knowledge of German is beneficial.
- Willingness to undertake occasional business travel (e.g., to NFDI4Microbiota consortium meetings).
Experience
- Experience with document and relational databases.
- Experience with version control (Git), Linux environments, and containerization (Docker).
What we offer
- The position is classified at salary grade TV-L E 13 and is part of the NFDI4Microbiota project.
- It is initially limited to 2 years and is offered as full time (39.8 hours per week).
- The position is based in Braunschweig and is not suitable for fully remote work.
- An interdisciplinary working environment with frequent exchange of experience.
- Participation in building a national research data infrastructure (NFDI).
- Motivated colleagues and a pleasant working atmosphere in a scientific field.
- Further development and support of scientific data services at the DSMZ.
- Plenty of room for creativity & challenging topics.
- Opportunities for further education and training.
- An employer certified by audit berufundfamilie®, offering flexible ways to balance work and family life.
- The position is located in Braunschweig and requires a substantial amount of on-site work.
- Mobile office work is possible for up to 3 days per week.
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About your employer
Das Leibniz-Institut DSMZ – Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen ist die weltweit vielfältigste Sammlung für biologischen Ressourcen (Bakterien, Archaea, Protisten, Hefen, Pilze, Bakteriophagen, Pflanzenviren, genomische bakterielle DNA sowie menschliche und tierische Zellkulturen). An der DSMZ werden Mikroorganismen sowie Zellkulturen gesammelt, erforscht und archiviert.
- 1969
- Established Company
- Science, Research
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