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The Health On the Net (HON) Foundation in Geneva is searching for a:

Developer

Location: Geneva Switzerland
Type: fulltime

HON is offering at wide range of services to citizens, medical professionals and health care providers. The HON Web development team makes HON services available to millions of users in order to access health websites respecting a set of quality criteria: the HONcode. The team combines software development, system administration expertise in Unix to run multilingual services available in 102 countries. We are looking from a software developer to contribute to major development in a multidisciplinary team.

Key responsibilities

manage a large scale crawling robot and search engine dedicated to health sites
support NLP team on software development aspects, from research to production
act as software support on many projects (CMS, log analysis etc.)

Desired experience and skills

engineer or bachelor degree in Computer Science with at least 2 years of experiences, or provable very strong programming achievements;
applied Agile methodology experience & continuous testing/integration;
programming language: Perl in large structured project and J2EE (web application);
javascript (JQuery) & css;
Search engine et web crawling experience is a plus;
knowledge in Solr/lucene;
any open source contribution is a plus.

You are responsible and organized; creative and proactive.

You are fluent in French with a very good knowledge of written and spoken English, the German is a plus.

Post to be filled immediately. Please submit your CV, letter of motivation, and salary expectations to