Front-end developer AI

Naturalis Biodiversity Center

Leiden

Hybrid

EUR 42,050 - 54,650

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Gross monthly salary €3,768 to €4,897

End-of-year bonus of 3.4%

27 days of leave plus 1 extra day

Travel allowance

Pension scheme

Work-life balance options

Development opportunities

Knowledge events

Laptop and phone allowance

Discounts on software and health insurance

Fun team outings

State-of-the-art work environment

Job summary

A national biodiversity research institute in Leiden is seeking a Front-end Developer AI to build innovative applications that support biodiversity research. The role involves developing user-centric front-ends, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, and maintaining application functionality. Ideal candidates have substantial front-end development experience and familiarity with CI/CD practices. The position offers a competitive salary, work-life balance, and various development opportunities.

Qualifications

Several years of experience as a front-end developer or in a similar role.
Experience with scrum and modern CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

Co-design, build, and maintain AI frontend applications.
Convert UX/UI designs into interactive web applications.
Support end users and product owners.

Skills

Collaboration

Complex information analysis

User interface design

Front-end development

Experience with CI/CD practices

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in ICT or Computer Science

Tools

Gitlab

Docker

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

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Senior P&O medewerker at Naturalis Biodiversity Center

Ready to use AI to make a real impact on the planet? As front-end developer at Naturalis, you'll build large-scale AI applications that reveal the secrets of biodiversity. Your work supports citizen science and helps track nature across the Netherlands.

As front-end developer

You play a key role in co-designing, building, maintaining and improvement of AI frontend applications
You have ample opportunity to experiment and innovate. Automation of your own work? Your ideas are welcome!
You get plenty of room to connect with colleagues in Naturalis and in our partner organisations, nationally and internationally

This is what you'll be doing

You develop the front-ends of our AI applications for multiple user groups. This includes developing the visual tooling to explore large scale datasets (including the display of relevant metadata), annotate the data, and provide visual integrations with specific biodiversity research infrastructures. Of course you also support end users and product owners in the best possible manner. And together with your team members you run, maintain and improve the applications in the teams’ portfolio.

You’ll play a key role in the user centric approach Naturalis wants to establish. Helping the product owner with gathering user feedback and monitoring user behaviour is part of this role. In collaboration with the designer, you transform UX/UI designs into interactive web applications. And with the back-end developers, you integrate the front and back ends. You also establish design standards and guidelines. And do you enjoy presenting your work not only within your scrum team, but also within Naturalis and with our partners? Go for it!

Here's what we have to offer

A gross monthly salary of € 3,768.- to € 4,897.- for a full-time contract (36 hours).
End-of-year bonus of 3.4% of your gross annual salary and 8% holiday pay.
Time off thanks to 27 days of leave per year with full-time employment. Plus 1 extra day that you can use for a holiday that is important to you.
Travel allowance. Are you travelling by public transport, bicycle or on foot? Then you get €0.21 per kilometer. For commuting by car you get €0.125 per kilometer..
Pension scheme via PFZW, where Naturalis pays 60% of your premium.
A focus on your work-life balance. You can work partly from home and schedule your workday between 07.00 and 19.00.
Plenty of development opportunities. We support your growth and give you unlimited access to the online training platform Goodhabitz as well as creating a personalized development plan together.
Fascinating knowledge events. These help you stay up to date on the latest developments in both your own field and outside it, such as our lectures and gatherings on various (scientific) topics. You can also attend – or take part in – the fascinating internal information session Naturalis Draait Door.
A laptop and phone allowance.
Nice extras such as discounts on software and hardware for private use, collective health insurance plans, and a bicycle scheme. You’ll also enjoy discounts in our museum restaurant and unlimited free access to our award-winning museum for you and your family.
Fun team outings. We also get together for drinks every month, organise an annual BBQ and a fantastic New Year's party. Not your scene? That's fine too, of course. All team activities are voluntary.
A unique work environment in a state-of-the-art building where you will feel proud to work every single day – we guarantee it!

The world lies at your feet! Literally. Whatever your role may be, you contribute to the preservation of our planet on a daily basis. Naturalis Biodiversity Center …

is the national research and knowledge institute and a key player in biodiversity data and infrastructures;
houses one of the largest natural history collections in the world.
welcomes 500,000 museum visitors per year.
collaborates with universities, expertise centres and museums around the world.
has a staff of diverse colleagues in various functions and with many different nationalities, with whom you will work together in an informal atmosphere.

This is your team

Contributions that really matter for biodiversity. You can do that within the Application Development and Management department, where you work together with 22 enthusiastic IT colleagues. What characterizes us? The diversity. We count different job functions - from junior to lead -, multiple nationalities and we work on the most diverse applications. We work in product teams that have stepwise improvement in their DNA. And we are innovative: we work platform-independently and are at the forefront of using new technologies. Whenever possible, we use open source technology and make the software we develop available as open source as well.

The product team you will be a member of consists of machine learning engineers and software developers. Your team is responsible for managing, maintaining, improving and renewing the applications in the teams’ portfolio. In addition, your team also works on new applications. You make sure that the applications are safe, stable, scalable and user-friendly and work closely with colleagues from other departments and internal and external stakeholders.

What you bring to the table

A collaborative attitude and an open mindset, allowing you to adapt smoothly when working with colleagues, whether they are your teammates, project leaders or collection managers. You know how to analyse and interpret complex information, can listen well and are not afraid to ask questions. You want to improve your skills in planning and prioritizing, so that changes and releases are available in a timely manner. You analyse incidents thoroughly and you actively try to find solutions.

Furthermore you have:

Bachelor-level or Master-level in a relevant field, such as ICT or Computer Science.
Several years of experience as a front-end developer or in a similar role.
Experience with scrum and modern CI/CD practices (Gitlab, Docker, Ansible, Terraform).

Become our new front-end developer

Upload your CV and motivation letter via the application button Sunday the 14th of September 2025 CEST at the latest..
Want to know more about the position before you apply? Call Wilfred Gerritsen, head of the Application Development and Management department via 06 – 227 07 176 or send an email to wilfred.gerritsen@naturalis.nl.
For more information about the application procedure, you can send an email to our colleagues in the P&O department via sollicitaties@naturalis.nl.

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