Software Engineer (UK only)

anywhere in the UK  ‐ Remote
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Description

Are you a great developer with a knack for making great software and changing your users' lives? Looking to work on fantastic open-source software used by 1000s of scientists worldwide?

The Open Microscopy Environment Consortium (OME, http://openmicroscopy.org) is seeking Software and Devops Engineers to build an international image repository and data-processing tools for the life sciences. We already have lots of great functionality, now we need to scale this up to handle millions of images and petabytes of data across multiple hosts, together with real-time analysis tools, all integrated with other world-leading databases and scientific resources.

We're looking for people to build and operate our infrastructure, to develop our existing applications for handling images and heterogeneous data in real-time, and to improve our data models to work with the increasing amounts of data being generated in the life-sciences.

We work hard, have a great time, and deliver unique, world-leading applications that are changing the way bioscience works. Everything we do is open-source; our tools are playing a vital role in supporting the move towards open-data and open-science. We work in several different domains- from basic research to drug screening to education to publication- and we need your help!

No one on our team does only one thing. Technical skills are important, but a willingness to take the initiative to research and suggest new tools is critical- we'll give you the time and support to learn and extend your skills.

Interested? Show us what you've done, for example your GitHub profile, apps you have created, teams you have been a part of.

Salary: £38,511 - £45,954

Skills & Requirements:
We're recruiting for several positions, if you have some of the following skills and are willing to learn the rest then consider applying:

  • Advanced Java or Python programming experience
  • Experience with client-server application development
  • Experience with Linux, Mac OS X or other Unix flavour
  • Strong collaborative skills with an eye towards efficiency and creativity
  • Relational database experience
  • Familiarity with continuous integration/deployment and testing


  • Pluses:
  • Experience in an open source development project
  • NoSQL and/or message queue experience
  • Experience of virtualisation technologies such as Docker, VMWare, OpenStack
  • Previous work in distributed processing and HPC clusters
  • Knowledge of object request brokers such as ZeroC's Internet Communication Engine (ICE)
  • These are full-time positions in the UK (Dundee, Scotland). Remote working is possible for the right individual, especially for those based in the UK


  • About Open Microscopy Environment Team, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee
    The Open Microscopy Environment (OME) is a multi-site collaborative effort among academic laboratories and a number of commercial entities that produces open tools to support data management for biological light microscopy. Designed to interact with existing commercial software, all OME formats and software are free, and all OME source code is available under the GNU GPL or through commercial license from Glencoe Software (http://glencoesoftware.com).
    Start date
    ASAP
    From
    Open Microscopy Environment Team
    Published at
    30.04.2015
    Contact person:
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    Project ID:
    895327
    Contract type
    Freelance
    Workplace
    100 % remote
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