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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

CompanyRoyal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Websitegithub.com
Typefull-time
LocationLondon, UK
Salary
Apply viaApplication linkhttps://careers.kew.org/vacancy/biodiversity-informatician-208826.html
Hiring notes
Parsed locationsLondon, UK
RegionsUK
Posted bySymbiote
PostedFeb 7, 2015
SourceView on Hacker News ↗

Original posting

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew — London, UK — Full time Kew is the world-leader in plant diversity science and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. We're looking for software developers to work in the Biodiversity Informatics department, working with data on plant and fungal taxonomy, traits, human uses, specimens etc. Three positions are primarily software development jobs — there's no requirement for any knowledge of botany, but we want to make good, stable software. The first is a junior position, a recent graduate is fine. 1. Biodiversity Informatician: https://careers.kew.org/vacancy/biodiversity-informatician-2... 2. Senior Biodiversity Informatician: https://careers.kew.org/vacancy/senior-biodiversity-informat... 3. Lead Developer — Drupal: https://careers.kew.org/vacancy/lead-developer-drupal-208862... The fourth position is for a researcher: 4. Early Career Research Fellowship — Biodiversity Informatics: https://careers.kew.org/vacancy/early-career-research-fellow... See https://github.com/RBGKew and http://emonocot.org/ for examples of recent development work. All employees start with 30 days leave, flexi-time, a Civil Service pension, and an office in a botanic garden.