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North HollandHybrid36 hours/week<3months
A national center for innovative software solutions in academic research is looking for a developer to contribute to the development of an open-source online platform.
- This platform highlights the impact of research software by aggregating information about the software itself, related research outputs, societal impact, and the people and organizations involved.
- The platform has been adopted by a large number of research organizations nationally and internationally.
- The role is temporary, reflecting the nature of its funding.
What you will do.
- Play a key role in further developing the platform and supporting its growing international community.
- Contribute to the deliverables defined in open science infrastructure projects.
- Extend the platform with new capabilities, including support for open hardware and reproducibility packages.
- Improve content curation workflows.
- Strengthen integrations with external services.
- Collaborate with project partners to translate high-level project objectives and deliverables into concrete implementation plans.
- Engage with the community manager to translate feedback and stakeholder requirements into well-defined feature requests and improvements.
- Work as part of the (international) development team to design and implement new platform features.
- Support the community manager and the training coordinators in developing training materials and resources related to the platform.
- Actively contribute to platform community events and initiatives that increase its visibility and adoption.
What they ask
- Experienced software developer who enjoys working in an international, English-speaking environment and contributing to open science.
- Affinity with academic research, open science, and open source software.
- At least 4 years of relevant work experience, including maintaining a software project, and working with users, stakeholders, and other developers.
- The ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment while taking ownership of your work.
- Strong software development skills, and a strong belief in reusable code, high code quality, version control, automated testing, and other software engineering best practices.
- Experience with the use and design of APIs, such as REST or GraphQL.
- Expertise with programming languages such as Python, Java, or TypeScript, and the ability and willingness to learn new technologies.
- Academic degree or an equivalent level of experience.
Desired.
- Experience with databases.
- Experience with metadata schemas.
- Experience maintaining open science infrastructure.
- Contribution to long-term sustainability and governance strategies for research software platforms.
Practical
- Work at the forefront of cutting-edge international software-enhanced research.
- Be part of a team of intelligent, collaborative, and ambitious people with a passion for academic research.
- Extensive opportunity to further develop your professional and personal capacities.
- Excellent secondary benefits: travel and communication allowance, holiday allowance (8%), 42 holidays (on a full-time basis), a year-end bonus (8.33%), personal development budget, fitness plan, bicycle plan.
- An informal and creative working environment.
- The opportunity to creatively help shape the future of the platform.
- Room for initiative and ideas.
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