Research Software Developer

50 % | Salary Grade E 13 TV-L | Fixed-Term until 2032

Position Details

Scope: 50 % Salary: Grade E 13 TV-L (German public sector pay scale) Duration: Fixed-term, project-funded until 31 December 2032 (extension possible) Start date: As soon as possible Unit: Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, research project „Hindu Temple Legends in South India“

About the Project

The project ‘Hindu Temple Legends in South India’ is a long-term research project of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities within the framework of the Academies Programme of the German federal and state governments. It explores the temple legends of the South Indian city of Kanchipuram in their different forms of transmission and makes them accessible in a digital environment. At the core of the project is the production of digital editions of Sanskrit and Tamil texts, which are linked with a documentation of temple architecture, iconography, rituals and oral traditions and made accessible via the project’s digital platform KANCHI (implemented as an eXist-db web app).

The main base of the project is the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, with a branch office functioning in Pondicherry, India, in cooperation with the École française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO).

Responsibilities

Development and maintenance of web applications using eXist-db
Modelling, processing, and transformation of TEI-XML data
Design and implementation of REST interfaces
Web development with Python (Flask), Bootstrap, and jQuery following current web standards (HTML5, CSS)
Development of transformation pipelines using XSLT and XQuery
Scripting and automation with Python and Bash
Integration with Linked Open Data infrastructures
Documentation of code and development decisions to academic standards