Job Description

Your responsibilities

Come and join the Web team at CERN – where it all began: CERN, the birthplace of the World Wide Web and the world’s largest particle physics laboratory! C

CERN has an opening for an Early Career Graduate (Origin) as a full-stack developer in the Web team, part of the Media and Digital Communications (PRD) section in the Education, Communication and Outreach (ECO) group in the International Relations (IR) sector.

As a full-stack developer you will:

– Share the Web team’s work and take part in the design and development sprints for the CERN core websites, web tools, and web applications, in a role combining full-stack development and website management.

– Contribute to the development efforts to migrate from Drupal to WordPress installation.

– Develop and maintain the CERN WordPress Distribution (themes, plugins, APIs, etc.).

– Manage and support CERN’s WordPress websites.

– Collaborate with designers to create intuitive, user-friendly interfaces.

– Participate in the support of the CERN WordPress Community.

The graduate will gain lots of experience by having the unique opportunity to work in a multinational, multidiscipline and diverse environment. They will develop web applications using some of the most popular and modern tools and programming languages. The main prerequisite is a desire to learn, and an enthusiasm to work as part of the Web team.

More information here: https://international-relations.web.cern.ch/eco/sections/media-and-digital-communications

Your profile

Experience with:

– WordPress development, including custom theme and plugin development, WordPress REST API, and modern WordPress development practices. Or knowledge of Drupal to assist with the migration from Drupal to WordPress.
– modern web development: PHP, JavaScript (including modern ES6+), CSS (SASS) and HTML.
– modern front-end frameworks (e.g., React, Vue.js).
– database management systems (MySQL/PostgreSQL) and data migration techniques.
– version control (Git) and development workflows.
– automated testing and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
– configuration management: building/maintaining configuration templates and parameters (OpenShift and OpenStack).
– container-based technologies (e.g. Docker) and deployment workflows.

Further details for the required skills and experience:

https://international-relations.web.cern.ch/opportunities/2024/early-career-graduate-full-stack-web-developer

Fluent in English, the ability to work in French would be an advantage.

Eligibility criteria:

• You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State.
• By the application deadline, you have a maximum of two years of professional experience since graduation in Computer Science or Software Engineering (or a related field) and your highest educational qualification is either a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree.
• You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.
• Applicants without University degree are not eligible.
• Applicants with a PhD are not eligible.

Additional Information

Job closing date: 6 January 2025 at 23h59 CET.

Contract duration: 24 months, with a possible extension up to 36 months maximum.

Target start date: 01-April-2025

Job reference: IR-ECO-PRD-2024-228-GRAE

Field of work: International Relations

What we offer

• A monthly stipend ranging between 5134 and 5647 Swiss Francs (net of tax).
• Coverage by CERN’s comprehensive health scheme (for yourself, your spouse and children), and membership of the CERN Pension Fund.
• Depending on your individual circumstances: installation grant; family, child and infant allowances; payment of travel expenses at the beginning and end of contract.
• 30 days of paid leave per year.
• On-the-job and formal training at CERN as well as in-house language courses for English and/or French.

About us

At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the universe. Using the world’s largest and most complex scientific instruments, they study the basic constituents of matter – fundamental particles that are made to collide together at close to the speed of light. The process gives physicists clues about how particles interact, and provides insights into the fundamental laws of nature. Find out more on http://home.cern.

Diversity has been an integral part of CERN’s mission since its foundation and is an established value of the Organization. Employing a diverse workforce is central to our success.