Desired Skills and Experience

  • Are you a full-stack Open Source oriented developer of web-based solutions?
  • Are you motivated to be a part of a development and operations team anchored at one of Europe’s most ambitious research libraries?
  • Work with your closest colleagues to develop and maintain existing web based services and bring about new ones, ensuring the highest quality experience for our users
  • Apply best practice web virtues, web methodologies and web technologies to our applications
  • Participate on our journey to transform todays infrastructure and solutions exposing predominantly bibliographic objects to also support the rapidly emerging phenomenon’s in Open Science of tomorrow (Research Data, Linked Open Data, etc.)
  • Activate your experience in the collaboration with other teams, and thereby take our web based service to an even higher level
  • Work with - and keep yourself well informed about - trends and developments in Open Source, Search and other library relevant technologies/methodologies.
  • Be a skilled and experienced Ruby programmer that are motivated by challenges at a scale, that require thinking and exploring outside standard manuals and textbooks necessary - experience with Solr is a plus
  • Be passionate about programming and understand the role, potential and limitations of homegrown/-operated software in an organisation - experience with/from research libraries is a plus
  • Take responsibility for the quality, well-being and durability of our collective codebase; not only parts done by you, but the entire base – experience with how to apply web paradigms (e.g. Progressive Enhancement, Single Page Apps, etc) in web applications is a plus.
  • Know how to ensure smooth and automated deployment of  multibranched, flexible development and operational environments, and why this matters to efficient service development and maintenance – experience with automation, Puppet and Docker is a plus
  • Move around natively in a Linux/OpenSource environment and appreciate a short distance between development and operation
  • Have a firm sense of accountability
  • Speak, read and write English fluently – abilities with the Danish language is a plus.
  • A strong teamplayer
  • End user oriented
  • Strategic mindset
  • Analytical

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