Context And Mission
Within the Earth Sciences Department of Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), led by Prof Francisco Doblas-Reyes, the Computational Earth Sciences group is looking for a student to realize an internship as Python and Web developer within the Data and Diagnostic Team and contribute to the development and maintenance of web applications for operational services. Mentioned services provide interactive visualization dashboards giving access to users to graphical and numerical products such as forecast maps, time-series, evaluation plots and skill scores. Those dashboards are developed with Dash and Plotly (), a Python interactive visualization framework. Operational services also include a back-end part of data collection (download and formatting) and processing.
Key Duties
- Design and develop software packages within Agile methodologies
- Design new features of an interactive web dashboard
- Develop new features and unit tests of the web dashboard
- Contribute to the documentation
Requirements
- Education
- Be a student in a Computer Science or Engineering related discipline
- Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
- Excellent development skills in Python
- Excellent web programming skills
- Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
- Use of version control in a distributed team like Git will be valued
- Previous knowledge of the Dash/Plotly will be valued
- Notions of UI/UX will be valued
- Competences
- Excellent problem-solving skills with a proactive approach
- Willingness and capacity to learn about new technologies and procedures
- Capacity to work and communicate in an international and interdisciplinary working environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to take initiative, prioritise and work under set deadlines and under pressure
- Ability to work both independently and within a team
- Fluency in English
Conditions
- The position will be located at BSC within the Earth Sciences Department
- We offer a full-time contract a good working environment, a highly stimulating environment with state-of-the-art infrastructure, adaptable working hours, extensive training plan, restaurant tickets, private health insurance, support to the relocation procedures
- Duration: Open-ended contract due to technical and scientific activities linked to the project and budget duration
- Holidays: 22 days of holidays + 6 personal days + 24th and 31st of December per our collective agreement
- Salary: we offer a competitive salary commensurate with the qualifications and experience of the candidate and according to the cost of living in Barcelona
- Starting date: ASAP