Salary: EUR 30.000 - 50.000
Date Posted: 6 giorni fa
Company Overview: VITO is the science-to-technology partner for companies, governments, and society looking for solid advice and solutions in their sustainability transition. With a multidisciplinary approach and unique testing and scale-up infrastructure, we accelerate innovative routes to resilient ecosystems, a circular and regenerative economy, and a healthy living environment. Our 1,300 researchers work together in various expertise teams to transform scientific insights into practical technologies. At VITO, we mobilise the power of science and technology to valorise and implement sustainable solutions worldwide, ensuring a livable future for at least another 1,000 years.
About the Environmental Intelligence Unit: Within the Environmental Intelligence unit, about 350 motivated employees are committed to monitoring our 'Planetary Boundaries' and 'Human Boundaries'. Together, we work on monitoring, researching, and analysing our environment (land, climate, air, water ...) and our health. We combine data and advanced technologies to develop and share valuable information, insights, and models with governments, other research institutions, and companies.
Position Overview: For our big data services development team, we are looking for a dynamic and highly motivated software engineer for the expansion of the team. Our ideal candidate is a driver in an ecosystem of earth observation and our openEO based big data platforms and ensures agile development of our distributed processing engine, to deliver performant operational services. Our main product is the Copernicus Dataspace Ecosystem openEO service, which offers large scale satellite data processing capabilities to a global audience. It is the primary cloud-based processing service within the EU Copernicus program.
Role Responsibilities: Develop efficient features, services, algorithms, models, and proof of concepts.Create production-grade open-source software components. Ensure decent automated test coverage of delivered components.Work together with architects, subject matter experts, and product owners.Provide support on customer issues.Together with the team, take responsibility over the operational platforms.Must Have: Experience in Scala and Python, and in Agile software development.Experience using Continuous Integration and testing frameworks (e.g., Jenkins).Nice to Have: Experience in Apache Spark (the main distributed processing environment).Experience with open-source development flows.Experience in cloud-native deployments is a plus.Proven experience in Kubernetes is an asset.Offer: We work 'activity-based'; our activities bring us to our location. Our headquarters is in Mol. Hybrid/Part-time working from home or a satellite office in Antwerp-Berchem, Genk, Kortrijk, Leuven, or Ostend is possible. A competitive salary with a range of benefits, including allowances, insurance, and a modular package of holidays. Innovation is our asset, so we provide our employees the opportunity to take additional training courses and stay up-to-date in their field. You will always have the opportunity to broaden your knowledge and discover new technologies. You will have the opportunity to be part of an organization with an international reputation, known for its cutting-edge technological research and scientific consultancy. With us, you will contribute directly to sustainable developments at local, national, and global levels through your innovative applications. You provide answers to contemporary societal challenges. Moreover, we highly value a good work-life balance at VITO! This is achieved by adopting a flexible attitude depending on your specific needs.
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