Full Stack Developer – Health + Life Science Alliance Data Space (w/m/d)

wanted of the next possible date at Heidelberg Medical Faculty for the Health + Life Science Alliance.

About the Health + Life Science Alliance Data Space:

Expanding beyond the existing scientific collaborations: The Health and Life Science Alliance is building an inter‑institutional data space to facilitate data sharing, joint data analyses, and seamless integration with existing projects and data ecosystems with the ultimate aim to enable research in medicine in life sciences. Our platform will empower researchers to collaborate across institutions, utilizing cloud and on‑premise computing and storage resources to drive scientific innovation.

Role Overview:

Dedicated to the continuous improvement of human health, we are seeking a full stack developer to join our newly formed team tasked with designing and implementing the core system for this data space. The system will be primarily built on AWS, with on‑premise compute and storage options to be added later. As a full stack developer, you will build and maintain a secure, cloud‑integrated web platform with modern front‑end, back‑end, and DevOps practices.

About the Health + Life Science Alliance Heidelberg Mannheim

The Health + Life Science Alliance Heidelberg Mannheim strives to promote research and innovation through synergy – by bridging world‑leading life science and biomedical research institutions and by bringing together a highly diverse range of disciplines and a cluster of top researchers. Heidelberg University with its faculties of Medicine, Biosciences, and Engineering Sciences, the University Hospital Heidelberg (UKHD) and the University Hospital Mannheim (UMM), the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), the Max‑Planck‑Institute for Medical Research (MPImR), and the Central Institute for Mental Health (ZI Mannheim) have the common goal to develop the Rhine‑Neckar region into a world‑leading innovation cluster by supporting cutting‑edge research and promoting transfer of knowledge into new diagnostics and therapeutics. The participating research institutions are located at the heart of a highly dynamic urban economic and industrial area embedded in a beautiful region with high quality of life.

Your Tasks

• Frontend Development: Design and implement a high‑performance, accessible web portal using React and TypeScript. Build complex dashboards for project management, data exploration (S3 abstraction), and real‑time compute monitoring.
• Backend Architecture: Develop robust server‑side logic and REST/GraphQL APIs using Node.js (Express/NestJS) to manage user identities, project governance, and the orchestration of cloud resources.
• Cloud Integration: Work closely with Cloud Engineers to integrate the application with AWS services (Cognito for federated IAM, S3 for data storage, and ECS/Fargate for containerized compute).
• Security & Compliance: Implement Privacy by Design principles. Build audit‑logging systems and approval workflows to ensure compliance with GDPR framework.
• Database Management: Maintain and optimise relational data models using PostgreSQL (via Prisma, TypeORM or Sequelize) to track project states, agreements, and resource quotas.
• DevOps: Contribute to CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions/GitLab CI) and containerisation strategies (Docker) to ensure 100% reproducible development and production environments.

Your Profile

• Technical Foundation: Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• Frontend Mastery: 3+ years of experience with React and TypeScript. Comfortable building responsive UIs and using modern state management (Redux/Zustand).
• Backend Expertise: Solid experience in JavaScript and building scalable APIs. Familiarity with database schema design and migration strategies.
• Cloud Literacy: Experience with the AWS ecosystem is highly desirable (specifically Cognito, S3, and Lambda).
• Language: Proficiency in English (working language); German is a plus but not required.

About us

For further information please contact Iwan Grin via e-mail.

Interested?

Applications will be accepted until online