Lund University was founded in 1666 and is repeatedly ranked among the world’s top universities. The University has around 47 000 students and more than 8 800 staff based in Lund, Helsingborg and Malmö. We are united in our efforts to understand, explain and improve our world and the human condition.
Lund University welcomes applicants with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We regard gender equality and diversity as a strength and an asset.
Your team
At MAX IV, the Technical Division builds and supports the technologies that enable cutting-edge research, while continuously improving how the facility operates.
Within this division, the Software team develops and maintains the control systems, data acquisition software, and user interfaces that researchers rely on every day. We focus on increasing functionality and reliability across the facility to meet the demands of world-class science. We provide laboratory wide software solutions following international standards in synchrotrons, such as data acquisition, control system, web-based user interfaces, distributed hardware control, scanning tools for running experiments, and metadata harvesting, to meet the continuously evolving research requirements. We work on projects towards FAIR data, providing a storage infrastructure along with analysis tools for researchers to work on their data after their experiments. We also develop and operate services towards the operation of the whole facility, such as proposal and scheduling systems, electronic logging, diagnostic dashboards, and maintenance support systems.
You will join an open and friendly team of 20 developers of diverse backgrounds, where continuous improvement and mentorship is part of our DNA. As part of the Software group, you will work in close collaboration with scientists as well as network, system, software and hardware engineers and scientific software experts. We promote a DevOps style cross functional team and encourage mutual support between all team members.
MAX IV is looking for up to 2 full-stack developers to play a central role in designing, building, and maintaining web-based applications and services that support the daily operations of a world-leading research facility. You’ll work across the entire software stack—from frontend interfaces to backend logic and infrastructure deployment—ensuring robust, scalable, and user-friendly systems. Your responsibilities will include developing new features, improving legacy systems, and managing deployments using tools like Ansible, Helm, and Kubernetes. You’ll collaborate closely with stakeholders to translate operational needs into technical solutions, and contribute to the full software lifecycle, including support and maintenance. This is a hands-on role with real impact, where your code helps enable cutting-edge science.
Being part of the Software group also means participating in different international collaboration projects for software frameworks for controls, data acquisition and data management, across Scandinavian and European countries.
Finally, this is an opportunity to learn and to increase your skills, competence, and experience. At MAX IV you will meet open-minded people from different perspectives who enjoy sharing their expertise.
Your main work tasks will be:
Develop and maintain in-house web-based services and applications, both frontend and backend.
Collaborate with team members and stakeholders to define and implement user-driven solutions.
Contribute to infrastructure tasks, CI/CD workflows and packaging.
Help maintain and improve existing systems, including legacy services and collaborative platforms (e.g. DUO, SciCat, Taranta, ISPyB).
Participate in the software support rotation and assist with operational troubleshooting.
To be successful in this role you need to have the following qualifications:
Formal education in a technical or scientific field.
Minimum 2 years of professional programming experience, with proficiency in Python 3 and/or JavaScript.
Experience with frontend frameworks and/or backend development.
Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and deployment.
Experience working in teams, including reviewing, testing, CI/CD practices.
Comfortable working in a Linux/Unix environment.
Understanding of web application security fundamentals.
Strong communication skills and fluency in English.
Experience in any of these are seen as merits:
Shows evidence of participating in an open source community collaboration.
Experience with systems such as DUO, SciCat, Taranta, ISPyB, or similar.
Has experience of working in an international research-oriented environment.
Ability to write clean and maintainable code
Familiarity with CI/CD workflows and pipelines and packaging.
Familiarity with additional programming languages (e.g. Go, Typescript, Rust, PHP).
Experience with monitoring and logging tools.
Familiarity with RESTful APIs and microservices architecture.
As a person you are first and foremost a team player and can demonstrate your communication and collaborative skills. You are open to peer review and willing to share your own knowledge. We expect you to have the capability to support a user environment that is under continuous development, with a strong focus on reliability while maintaining structure and quality in our code-base.
What we offer
When you join the MAX IV team, you step into a world of front edge science. We make the invisible visible by supporting scientists from all over the world, generating scientific results for the benefit of society. We offer you a multicultural work environment with great opportunities for personal development with respect for a healthy work-life balance.
Probation period may apply.
For further information, please visit:
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/about-lund-university/work-lund-university
www.sweden.se
https://www.maxiv.lu.se/about-us/careers/compensation-benefits/
MAX IV is a Swedish national large-scale research infrastructure hosted by Lund University. It provides scientists from Sweden and abroad, with intense x-rays and state-of-the-art instrumentation for research in areas such as engineering, physics, structural biology, chemistry and nanotechnology. Its 16 beamlines receive up to 2 000 scientists annually, conducting ground-breaking experiments in materials and life sciences using the brilliant X-rays.
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