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Bavarian State Library | Munich, Germany | Backend Developer | Full Time | Onsite

The Bavarian State Library has one of the largest digital library collections in Europe with currently more than 1 million digitzed volumes. We would like to further improve our backend services that support a number of applications that provide ways for our patrons to access our data. We contribute to Open Source where possible and are part of a number of world-wide collaborations in the digital library sector.

We are looking for a software developer with experience in the following areas:

- Java web development with Spring MVC

- Dealing with complex XML datasets

- at least one of PostgreSQL, Graph Databases (we're using Neo4J), search engines (Lucene/Solr), Natural Language Processing

The position full-time and initially limited to two years. Compensation is based on German TV-L guidelines at level E13 (which works out to ~44-63k€, depending on your experience), as are vacation days (30 for the year). We're located right in the centre of Munich (10 minutes to the Englische Garten).

Drop me a line (johannes.baiter@bsb-muenchen.de) if you want to know more about the position (I'm a developer on the team you'd be working in) or apply directly or the head of the digital library department (brantl@bsb-muenchen.de).



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