Software Engineer for e-governance applications
GRNET S.A., Greece
Job Description
Description
GRNET National Infrastructures for Research and Technology, provides networking and cloud computing services to academic and research institutions, to educational bodies at all levels, and to agencies of the public, broader public and private sector. It is responsible for promoting and disseminating network and computing technologies and applications, as well as for promoting and implementing Greece’s Digital Transformation goals. Thus, GRNET leverages the educational and research activity in the country, towards the development of applied and technological research in the fields of telecommunication networks and computing services.
GRNET holds a key role as the coordinator of all e-infrastructures in Education and Research. With twenty-plus years’ experience in the fields of advanced network, cloud computing and IT infrastructures and services, and significant international presence, GRNET shall advise the Ministry of Digital Governance on issues relating to the design of advanced information systems and infrastructures.
GRNET develops synergies with other agencies which provide digital services in the Greek public sector, by sharing best practices and know-how on advanced information systems and it represents the national research and technological community within the European Union’s Research Infrastructures. GRNET contributes to the country’s Digital Transformation via in-depth analysis, technological studies, standard solutions and specialized know-how, serving at the same time hundreds of thousands of users on a daily basis in the strategic fields of Public Administration, Education, Research, Health and Culture. GRNET is also the National Research and Education Network (NREN).
In order to reach its goals, GRNET undertakes projects, initiatives and other activities related to information technology, digital technology, communication, e-governance, new and open technologies, including new big data technologies, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and in general, to the promotion, dissemination and transfer of know-how regarding network and computing technologies and their applications, to research and development, education and to the promotion of Digital Transformation.
We are currently looking for passionate Software Engineers to help us push the Digital Transformation of the Public Sector into the future and support the Ministries and Public Bodies with advanced technological solutions. Our first and immediate step in our short-term plans (next 3 years) is to develop and deploy a modular infrastructure that connects existing Information Systems owned by Public Administration Bodies and allows the operation and monitoring of public services. Long-term plans (5-7 years) involve the expansion of this infrastructure to cover more needs of the Public Administration Bodies, high-level Administratives of the public sector and citizens.
As a Software Engineer, you’ll analyze, design, develop and integrate a number of services and solutions. You will be part of a talented team of software engineers that demonstrate superb technical competency, delivering mission critical services and applications. The team members are professionals, with a mindset to innovate, automate, streamline, and provide value to GRNET and to the users of the offered services.
Requirements
- Design and develop distributed, fault-tolerant and scalable applications and services.
- Translate UI design and UX guidelines into actual products.
- Consume backend services adhering to security and quality guidelines
- Experience in software development with open source software and solutions
- Experience in developing and maintaining software systems in production (using Node.js, Python, Java or PHP)
- Background knowledge of Relational Databases (Postgres, MySQL, SQL server, Oracle) and familiarity with NOSQL storage (MongoDB, Redis, Elastic, etc.)
- Familiar with CI/CD tools, application bundling and modern methods for web apps deployment
Your Profile
- Experience in API development
- Creative problem-solving skills.
- A firm grasp of multi-threading, object-oriented design and asynchronous programming
- Skills in testing (unit/integration)
- Ability to manage the software development lifecycle with emphasis on continuous integration and deployment.
- Project and time management skills.
- Able to collaborate with multiple people and teams based on a policy of openness. There are no heroes in our teams and we try to spread our knowledge as much as we can.
- Bring your technical opinion to the table: It matters.
Knowledge/Experience on the following will be considered a plus:
- Knowledge of modern frontend frameworks
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience with remote working