Who we are
The European Parliament stands for democracy. We help connect it to people.
This entails providing complete and impartial information to citizens and media about the European Parliament, and assisting Members in their communication activities.
The Directorate-General for Communication (DG COMM) strives to reach the right audience with the right message at the right time and in doing so, deliver world-class communication. We are committed communication professionals coming from various professional and academic backgrounds.
The Webmaster Unit of the Directorate for Campaigns ensures the conception and the technical development of projects in the field of web, mobile and video streaming.
Our mission is to deliver high quality software solutions fitted for the business needs of our internal European Parliament clients and our ultimate clients, the European citizens.
We put our expertise at work in order to deliver websites to inform about European Parliament activity and latest news in a useful way, accessible to everyone, in users’ European language. Thus, our websites are multilingual and we target for high performance, accessibility, usability, reliability, security, Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance.
Among our projects, developed in house or externally, there are: Europarl News Website and the in-house made Content Management System (Scribo) for it, President’s Website, Secretary General Website, About Parliament Website, At Your Service Website, European Elections Website, Election Results Website and many others.
Your tasks
We are looking for a Web Developer. We will offer you the opportunities to learn software development technologies and work in a continuous integration environment with exciting every day challenges and lots of diverse and interesting projects. We welcome candidates who show potential to grow in this exciting IT domain.
As a web developer trainee, you would be involved in the following:
- Work closely with senior developers and architects to implement corrective or adaptive maintenance or to develop new projects features;
- Liaise with the analyst colleagues and quality assurance team working towards project objectives;
- Participate in evaluation process for architectural choices;
- Perform technical analyses;
- Contribute to the technical knowledge base.
You are
- You are willing to work as part of a team, in a multicultural environment;
- You are ready to work in an English and French speaking environment;
- You are willing to work on challenging projects;
- You are willing to learn;
- You studied Computer Sciences / Information Technologies / Telecommunication Engineering or equivalent;
- You have Java and/or Javascript or other coding experience;
- You understand the software development life-cycle.
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