Who are you?
You are an excellent software engineer who likes to design and build open-source solutions, and you have an affinity with the life sciences. You also have experience with building AI-agents and cloud experience (e.g., AWS). You are good at identifying the requirements for a solution design and implementing these in collaboration with the customer. You resonate with The Hyve's mission: improving the world by providing biomedical scientists with excellent tools for analyzing their data.
And we?
The Hyve is an international IT company employing software engineers, solutions architects, and data engineers. We are dedicated to delivering solutions that support scientists in life sciences and healthcare R&D using open-source software, open data, and open standards. Our vision is to enhance the quality and impact of biomedical research by providing biomedical informatics solutions, and we believe that open source is the way to do this.
Currently, we are working on a variety of software stacks, AI-agents and SaaS-solutions. There are specialists in the fields within our teams with a lot of knowledge about the data and how to use the software. We are looking for a generalist with design capabilities and development skills, who can work on different stacks, agents, SaaS platforms, and collaborate.
Your responsibilities
- Write excellent code, tests, and documentation
- Review code from colleagues and community members
- Be an excellent sparring partner for other developers and architects when designing features and estimating workload
- Able to work both independently on a task and in a team on a project
- Quality assurance, and maintenance (monitoring systems performance, vulnerabilities, and maintaining CI pipelines).
Must have
- Experience with several of the following technologies:
- Cloud experience, e.g., Google Cloud Platform, AWS
- Java / Kotlin
- Relational databases, such as Postgres, MySQL, or Oracle
- Spring or comparable framework
- Javascript
- Kubernetes & docker
- Software development and maintenance experience on various levels: defining requirements, designing, implementing, and testing the solution while focusing on the security, performance, and reusability of the solution and user experience
Based in or willing to move to The Netherlands; we work from the office at least two days a week
Nice to have
- Experience with:
- Kafka
- React or Angular
- Resource Description Framework (RDF)
- Clickhouse
- Experience with tools The Hyve supports, e.g., cBioPortal or Open Targets
- Model Context Protocol (MCP)
We offer
- Between 32-hour and 40-hour workweeks
- A competitive salary and profit-sharing plans
- A Personal Development Budget to encourage your personal and professional development
- Travel allowance and a pension
- A great workplace close to Utrecht Central Station (Utrecht, The Netherlands) with entertainment facilities such as a table football and a piano
- Frequent team-building activities such as board games, city trips, karaoke nights, and outdoor sports
- Opportunity to work with renowned research institutes worldwide
- Opportunity to work with the research departments of most of the top 10 pharma companies
Information
For more information, please contact:
Harry van Haaften, Managing Director, +31 30 7009713 or hr@thehyve.nl
How to apply?
Please send your application to: hr@thehyve.nl
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