Front-end Developer - Humanities Cluster KNAW - Amsterdam

If you are a front-end developer with the necessary experience, you love history and you like to work in a research environment, we invite you to respond to this vacancy.

The Digital Infrastructure department at the KNAW Humanities Cluster in Amsterdam is looking for a Front-end Developer.

Job description:
We are looking for new people to strengthen our development teams. We design and build open source software that allows our scholarly colleagues to address new research questions using innovative new methods. This research is typically driven by large, rich and heterogeneous data collections and exploits evolving (European) research infrastructures. We welcome front-end engineers to help expose and explore this rich data (via search, visualization, annotation), to design and build frontends for our data-driven services and to contribute to the research infrastructures in which we participate.

Examples of the kinds of problems we expect you to tackle:

• One of the institutes we work with at the KNAW Humanities Cluster (Huygens Institute – see below for more information about the Humanities Cluster) has a tradition of publishing scholarly text editions. The challenge is to develop a generic presentation platform for text editions that still leaves space to  meet custom user requirements.
• Related to that, design and build interactive software that supports the creation of scholarly text editions.
• Quickly develop small experimental web applications that solve a specific user problem, using the web API's of our backend systems.
• Visualise how aspects of our historic collection data change over time and space.
• Combine existing software components with your own custom code so that it meets the standards and requirements set by international research infrastructures.
• Develop scholarly use cases with our researchers and formulate and communicate the requirements for our backend systems that follow from that.

These problems are often made a bit more difficult by the historical aspect, the diversity, and by questions of scale. But we love a challenge!