Full Stack Developer - Remote - all genders

Are you a full stack developer with at least 2 years of professional experience Do you know your way around user interfaces as well as APIs and data integrations Are you interested in a position where your work positively affects people all around the world Then this job might be for you!

Open Knowledge Maps is a young and growing organisation in the field of scientific knowledge discovery. We are building a visual interface that dramatically increases the visibility of research findings for science and society alike. We are a nonprofit organisation and we believe that a better way to explore and discover scientific knowledge will benefit us all.

As a full stack developer you have a major role in delivering relevant scientific knowledge to our users through our free and open services and youll work on our codebase that has been made openly available under a permissive open source licence.

Tasks

Once you join us you will be:

• Enabling the integration of our services in 3rd party systems
• Developing features for functional and performant user interfaces which include a search interface and an interactive visualisation client built with React
• Developing and maintaining a PHPmiddleware between the visualisation client and our backend PythonAPI
• Collaborating with product designers and backend developers on new features quality improvements of existing features and data wrangling
• Testing and errorproofing user interfaces and backend APIs and reacting to problems arising in live systems
• Improving code sustainability and reducing technical debt of the overall system architecture

Requirements

Your profile:

Requirements:

• Minimum 2 years of professional experience as a full stack developer
• Strong skills and expertise with fundamental frontend technologies Javascript/HTML/CSS
• Experience with at least one reactive framework such as React or Vue.js
• Proficiency with serverside languages such as PHP or Python
• Experience with software development lifecycles from specification to review processes
• Experience with development workflow tools such as Git webpack Ansible and Docker
• Fluent English

Nice to haves:

• Experience with React Redux and D3
• Experience with RESTful APIs and microservices containerized with Docker
• Handson experience with a variety of data structures and formats from string manipulation with regex tabular data in data frames to nested and hierarchical data in tree structures
• Experience with Flask and Pandas is a plus
• Expertise in R is a plus

Your competences:

• Ability and drive to solve complex integration issues
• Strong problemsolving skills and attention to detail
• Adaptability willingness to learn
• Good communication documentation and collaboration skills
• High motivation and willingness to take responsibility

Benefits

We offer:

• Friendly motivated and inclusive team embedded in the international open science community
• Working on a positive impactgenerating product with a charitable cause
• The impact of your work will be directly experienced by a global user base of students researchers and professionals with various backgrounds
• Room for growth in your role and learning new technologies
• Flexible working hours and working location (within Austria) presence in the office only selectively required
• Nice office in central location in Vienna