A Software Developer for the Digital Society Lab Unit (DS Lab)

The Digital Society Center of FBK (DigiS – https://digis.fbk.eu/) is a multidisciplinary group of 100+ researchers and technologists working in different areas related to sustainability and quality of life. DigiS embraces the vision that ICT has the potential to be a key transformational technology to improve sustainability and quality of life. In DigiS, this goal is achieved both by performing advanced research in key areas such as AI, Big Data, IoT, 5G, and by exploiting living labs and partnerships with companies to experiment innovative solutions able to meet key societal challenges.

Workplace

The “DS Lab” of FBK-ICT aims at exploiting the research results to improve quality of life and increase sustainability in cities and other communities of people. DS Lab aims in particular at experimenting new modalities of service delivery to citizens, innovative communication modalities between citizens and government and new forms of collaboration and participation.

The application areas for DS Lab include smart mobility, environment sustainability, on-line services, citizen participation and education. DS Lab is currently involved in several research and innovation projects, in collaboration with other research units of FBK, as well as in product maturation and experimentation activities in the cities and territories of the Province of Trento.

More information about the DS Lab is available at http://www.smartcommunitylab.it/

Job Description

The candidate will work in the scope of the projects of the DS Lab, with the role of Software Developer. The role requires working to the design and development of the software platforms and applications produced by DS Lab in the scope of its research and innovation projects, in collaboration with the staff of the development lab of the unit.

Typical tasks will include:

Development of new software components; maintenance and evolution of existing software components and systems
Collaboration to the design of software components
Quality assurance and operation of the software

Job requirements

The ideal candidate should have:

M.Sc. in Computer Engineering o Computer Science (or equivalent degrees);
Experience of development with the server-side technologies and platforms (Java, Python); and with the front-end development (e.g., Angular, Vue);
Oral and written proficiency in English;
Team work attitude, good communication and relational skills.

Additional requirements

Experience with the technologies adopted by the DS Lab:
- Front-end Web development (Angular, Vue, JS, HTML5)
- Server-side technologies (e.g., JEE/Spring, Python/Flask, NodeJS/Express)
- SQL (MySQL, Postgress) and NOSQL databases (MongoDB)
- Python and related technologies (Flask, Pandas, Apache Spark, Jupyter)
- Development tools and technologies (Git, Maven, Gradle, CI)

Employment:

Type of contract: Fixed term contract
Working hours: full time
Start date: February, 2021
Duration: 2 years
Gross annual salary: about 26.500 €
Workplace: Povo, Trento (Italy).
Benefits: flexi-time, company subsidized cafeteria or meal vouchers, internal car park, welcome office support for visa formalities, accommodation etc., supplementary pension and health found, training courses, public transport, sports facilities, language courses fees. Further details at https://www.welfarefbk.info/

Application:

Interested candidates are requested to submit their application by clicking on the bottom "Apply online" in the end of this page. Please make sure that your application contains the following attachments (in pdf format):

- Detailed CV
- Motivational letter

Application deadline: 19 January, 2021
New Application deadline: 29 January, 2021

Please read our Recruitment Regulations before completing your application.

For further information, please contact the Human Resources Services at jobs@fbk.eu.

Business units	Organigramma 2020/ICT/Digital Society
Locations	Science and Technology Hub - Trento