Open position for a software engineer
Fundación Galileo Galilei - INAF, Fundación Canaria is announcing an open position as a software engineer which will join the Information Technology group.
Workplaces:
- Fundación Galileo Galilei - INAF, Fundacón Canaria (FGG) Headquarters, San Antonio - Breña Baja (S.C. de Tenerife)
- Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG), Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (ORM), Garafía (S.C. de Tenerife)
Job description:
Fundación Galileo Galilei is an equal opportunity collaboration committed to diversity in the workplace,
and we welcome applications from all qualified candidates. The FGG is a Spanish non-profit organization,
whose aim is to promote astrophysical research by managing the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo.
We need to expand the IT staff to guarantee the optimal observational operativity. The software engineer should
help to maintain the actual systems, participate with the refurbishment of the old/deprecated software
and develop new software aimed to improve the performance of the observations.
Functions:
- Design and code applications following the standards used at the TNG
- Maintain and modify existing software applications
- Collaborate with the staff and report to the team leader
- Diagnose problems of the actual applications and fix them
- Ensure a good performance of the equipment and the software
- Integrate new software with the existing sytems
- Help to setup and configure HA deployments
Minumum required qualification:
- University grade in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technologies or equivalent
- Driving license for vehicles (level B)
Essential experience and knowledge:
- Good skills and knowledge of GNU/Linux OS
- Good knowledge of OOP principles
- Good experience in Python and/or Java
- Development of service oriented architecture
- Knowledge of relational and noSQL databases
- Good virtualization techniques understanding (kvm, qemu, docker, kubernetes)
- Good network understanding
- Spoken and written English
- Spoken and written Spanish
Merits to value:
- Previous experience of at least 2 years as a software engineer
- Data science and machine learning techniques
- Knowledge/experience of development of REST API
- Knowledge of IoT technologies
- Knowledge of Italian language
Contract information:
- Permanent contract with full time employment of 37.5 hours/week
- The first 6 months are considered a probationary period
- Gross salary starting from 22000 € per year
People interested in applying for this position are invited to send an email before the 28 th of July 2025 with subject "Software engineer" to jobs@tng.iac.es.
The application should include:
- A Curriculum Vitae
- A motivation letter for applying to this call