Union der deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften e.V.akademienunion.de
Research Software Developer
- Location
- Heidelberg
- Remote
- Hybrid
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Experience
- Mid-Level
- Field
- Software, Data & IT
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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
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