...forwarded for your information; this should be a very interesting post, in an exciting microscopy environment, with lots of new developments going on, and Spencer is very nice person to work with; plus, the added bonus of reputedly the best canteen of Paris (and that's not by Imperial standards, I can confirm it's excellent), Martin -------- Original Message -------- Subject: OMERO developer post Pasteur Paris Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 08:45:52 +0200 From: Spencer Shorte <sshorte@pasteur.fr> To: Martin Spitaler <m.spitaler@imperial.ac.uk> Software developer post at the Imagopole facilities of the Institut Pasteur Paris The Imagopole (http://www.imagopole.org) is a large multi-disciplinary centre for functional analyses of biological systems using optical and electron microscope imaging methods. It serves primarily researchers working on infection, microbiology and immunology at the Institut Pasteur Paris, but is also open at national and international levels for external research needs. With around fifty associate research and engineering staff, rendering advanced technologies for life sciences research to over five hundred users, we have special need for excellence in imaging informatics, and currently are seeking a an experienced software developer to join our team, for an appointment of three years. Specifically, the candidate will join the Imagopole in the context of a newly funded program (Wellcome Trust) aimed to develop OME/OMERO (OME) image database architecture for the benefit of a consortium of partners, including the Institut Pasteur campus. Towards these ends the Open Microscopy Environment Consortium (OME) is in an exciting, well-funded initiative aiming to leverage great functionality for image db management through a community effort for improved and updated Bio-Formats; integration with ImageJ2, CellProfiler, and KNIME. Downstream there are plans for improved support for heterogeneous data, probably via NoSQL; improved data model and ontology support; improved support for distributed compute for large-scale analysis. While OMERO applications are mostly written in Java and Python with some JavaScript and PL/pgSQL the foundations are old-school (PostgreSQL, ZeroC's ICE mixed with a taste of web scale computing; NoSQL, HDF5 and PyTables). So, the candidate must have the technical skills to integrate to this professional team, and the independence to use their skills for local developments in the Institut Pasteur Imagopole. The successful applicant will be based in Paris France, and will interact closely with researchers and software developers based in Scotland, Germany, Italy, and the USA. For more information, see http://openmicroscopy.org. Responsibilities: . Client and server side development; . Rapid prototyping based on new feature requests; . Participation in the entire life cycle of our applications; development, testing and deployment; . Continue development of an existing Java server-based Application Requirements: . Java and/or Python programming experience; . Database-driven application design and data modelling; . Experience with client-server application development; . Experience with SQL; . Excellent object-oriented and aspect-oriented programming skills; . Experience with Java server development; . Experience with Linux, Mac OS X or any proprietary Unix flavour; . Strong collaborative skills with an eye towards efficiency and creativity Expertise in one or more of the following: . C, C++ and/or Python programming experience; . Template design with Django; . Experience developing and deploying Java client-server applications in Linux and/or Windows; . A procedural SQL language (PL/SQL, Transact-SQL, PL/pgSQL, SQL PL); . Oracle or PostgreSQL experience; . ZeroC's ICE; . NoSQL facility; . Experience in an open source development project Interested: Send CV and a letter of intention to: admin-imagopole@pasteur.fr (Attention: Pr. Spencer Shorte)