Software Engineer

About The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center For Biosustainability

This vacancy is provided by Copenhagen Capacity.

The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability at the Technical University of Denmark is doing exactly this by developing new technologies for engineering microbes, turning them into cell factories, which are designed for efficient production of a specific compound in a commercially competitive way. Today, many pharmaceuticals and chemicals are produced from oil or rare plant material. By using genome-scale modelling, advanced robotics and bioengineering, the Center’s researchers design and construct cell factories capable of converting low-value carbon sources to high-value chemical compounds and proteins in a more sustainable, cost-effective manner than today. In short: by using cell factories, we can go from oil-based chemical industry to a highly sustainable bio-based industry.

Position

The Center for Biosustainability is conducting a search for a talented and enthusiastic Software Engineer to develop experimental design, data collection and learning features for our software platform supporting the genetic engineering of microbial strains. You will join the Software Engineering & Architecture group of our Informatics unit where we are developing an integrated R&D software platform, Lifelike.

Responsibilities

• Develop web user interface components using Angular, Angular-Material, web services and REST APIs
• Develop back-end code in Python, Flask
• Automated testing for our applications
• Apply agile software development practices to develop, collaborate on, and coordinate the development and deployment of software using version control and continuous integration and testing strategies

Current technologies in use are Persistence, caching: PostgreSQL, Redis; Web service: Python 3, Flask, SQLAlchemy, Graphene (GraphQL); Web interface: Angular, Angular-Material, TypeScript, Apollo (GraphQL); Deployment & CI: NGINX, Docker, Jenkins.

Your qualification

• A Master’s degree in Computer Science, Bioinformatics or similar or equivalent work experience in software engineering is required
• Able to write high quality, structured and maintainable code
• Demonstrated experience developing single-page web applications using modern JavaScript frameworks
• Experience in full stack development
• Developing web services in Python
• Competent at writing helpful documentation and appropriate unit tests
• Familiar with Agile software development practices; having worked with an Agile framework such as Scrum or Kanban in a team environment is a big plus
• Able to work with technical and scientific staff with different roles and professional backgrounds
• We value developer community participation. If you have active profiles on GitHub or StackExchange or any significant open source contributions, please include the details in your CV or cover letter

Will be a plus

• Prior knowledge with semantic technologies like RDF and natural language processing and knowledge graphs
• Experience developing enterprise applications using a major development platform
• Prior experience with graph databases
• Prior knowledge of Biology

What we offer

• An interesting and challenging job in an international atmosphere with the focus on research, teaching, innovation and scientific advice for the benefit of the surrounding community
• A meaningful project mission of making a step towards a green sustainable economy
• A multidisciplinary team of biotechnologists, data scientists and software engineers
• A budget for self-development activities, courses and conferences
• Horizontal team structure where everybody has a voice and can make impactful decisions
• Social life; the Center is located on the campus of the Technical University of Denmark and has an in-house gym, a library, a brewing club etc.

Additional details

Communication and all issues related to the position are curated by Copenhagen Capacity.