Software Engineer – Data Discovery
European Bioinformatics Institute | EMBL-EBI
Full-time
IT & Technology
Location
cambridge, england, United-Kingdom
Posted
June 14, 2026
Job Description
We are looking for a dynamic Software Engineer to join the EBI Search project (PMID: ), a scalable text search engine providing easy and uniform access to the biological data resources hosted at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI).
EBI Search provides the central discovery infrastructure indexing more than 6 billion data objects across EMBL-EBI and external resources. It enables search and cross-linking across more than 100 biological data domains via web interfaces and RESTful APIs. You will join a team of software developers working together to support scientific research and FAIR data access across multiple disciplines.
Your role
- Integration and indexing of biological data and metadata, and provision of these through user-friendly web interfaces and web services for the international research community;
- Development of new features within an established and evolving codebase;
- Integration of the search platform wi...