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We are seeking a full-stack web developer to join the development team to work on our patent/scientific search engine. You will be working on expanding the user-facing side of our search system; as well as greenfield collaborative editing and interactive data-exploration systems. We're a small team and expect you to take a proactive role in determining how (and with what) our systems are built. You will work across all the components of our front-end system, comprising mainly: Linux/EC2, Mysql/Lucene, Java/Spring, Javascript/Backbone and HTML/CSS. **Responsibilities:** * Develop highly interactive web-based services for data exploration and collaboration using massive textual data sets from patents and scientific knowledge. **The ideal candidate:** * Is already a full-stack web developer. * Has an excellent knowledge of modern HTML5/CSS3 * Has experience bringing a modern javascript-heavy webapp to production, and knows how to avoid the common pitfalls with complex javascript apps * Is passionate and has well-reasoned opinions about (web)development * Is proactive and is willing to take the lead on design and implementation of systems without micromanagement **Required Skills:** * HTML/CSS. Applied knowledge of HTML5/CSS3 and a deep understanding of CSS inheritance and how to use it to your advantage. * Javascript. Should be familiar with bringing a moderately complex javascript app to production. We use tools like jasmine, selenium, underscore and backbone * Java/JVM. Our current webapp is built around Java / Spring MVC. We're moving some systems to Scala so experience with additional JVM languages is a plus. * Git. We use git for version control. A github account is highly regarded. * Linux. We develop on osx and deploy on linux. Familiarity with the basic tools is required, any administration skills are a bonus. **About The Lens: Cambia, NICTA** _Our goal is to greatly enhance the public good by creating an open and inclusive innovation system, which melds many disparate information sources, dramatically expanding the availability and discoverability of human knowledge. We think of it as 'Innovation Cartography', maps which allow us to discover otherwise unreachable knowledge. Working on the Lens is a Lifestyle choice. Flexible work hours and a casual, friendly environment in exchange for passion and dedication. Our team is small, highly productive, open- minded about solutions and focused on delivering high-impact public goods. We thrive on humor and good coffee, so a creatively tattooed, fedora-wearing, wryly funny code-master barista would be most welcome._ **NICTA** NICTA (National ICT Australia Ltd) is Australia's Information and Communications Technology Research Centre of Excellence. NICTA develops technologies that generate economic, social and environmental benefits for Australia. NICTA collaborates with industry on joint projects, creates new companies, and provides new talent to the ICT sector through a NICTA-enhanced PhD program. With four laboratories around Australia and over 700 people, NICTA is the largest organisation in Australia dedicated to ICT research. NICTA is funded by the Australian Government through the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy and the Australian Research Council through the ICT Centre of Excellence Program. NICTA is also funded and supported by the Australian Capital Territory, the New South Wales and Victorian Governments, the Australian National University, the University of New South Wales, the University of Melbourne, the University of Queensland, the University of Sydney, Griffith University, Queensland University of Technology and Monash University. **Cambia** Cambia is a globally prominent not-for-profit social enterprise and the leading provider of free patent and intellectual property search and analysis. Cambia's mission is the democratization of problem solving using science and technology. Cambia is the founding partner of the Lens, together with NICTA (National ICT Australia) and QUT (Queensland University of Technology). Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/6411/