Desired Skills and Experience

  • Are you a Full-Stack Open Source-oriented developer of web-based solutions?
  • Do you want to be part of a development and operations team anchored at one of Europe’s most ambitious research libraries?
  • Work with your immediate 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 today’s infrastructure and solutions exposing predominantly bibliographic objects to also support the rapidly emerging phenomena in the Open Science of tomorrow (Research Data, Linked Open Data, etc.)
  • Utilize your experience in collaboration with other teams to take our web-based service to the next level
  • Work with and keep yourself updated on trends and developments in Open Source, Search and other library-relevant technologies/methodologies.
  • Our expectations
  • Be a skilled and experienced Ruby programmer motivated by big-scale challenges that call for thinking and exploring outside standard manuals and textbooks—experience with Solr is a plus
  • Be passionate about programming and understand the role, potential, and limitations of homegrown/-operated software in an organization—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 multi-branched, 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/Open Source environment and appreciate a short distance between development and operation
  • Have a firm sense of accountability
  • Speak, read and write English fluently—Danish proficiency is a plus.
  • Strong teamplayer
  • End-user-oriented
  • Strategic mindset
  • Analytical

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