Software Engineer โ€“ Data Discovery

1000 European Molecular Biology Laboratory

Full-time IT & Technology
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Location
hinxton, england, United-Kingdom
Posted
June 20, 2026

Job Description

Overview

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 6billion data objects across EMBLโ€‘EBI and external resources, enabling search and crossโ€‘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.

Responsibilities

  • 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 pl...