Eclipse RCP Engineer

The client is looking for a senior-level Eclipse RCP engineer with deep desktop UI expertise—someone who has built complex, high-performance scientific desktop applications using SWT/OSGi. The ideal candidate combines strong concurrency and performance engineering skills with UI/UX sensitivity and can translate complex scientific or geoscience workflows into responsive, intuitive desktop experiences. Job Description: Java Backend Developer - Scientific Desktop Engineer Role summary We’re seeking a UI/UX‑focused Senior Eclipse RCP / SWT Engineer to design and build high‑performance Java thick‑client applications using Eclipse RCP, OSGi, SWT, and JFace. You will partner with product, UX, and domain experts to deliver intuitive, robust, and responsive scientific desktop software used by geoscience professionals. The ideal candidate combines deep desktop UI engineering - Desktop / Eclipse Stack ( Eclipse RCP, swt)  with strong multithreading/concurrency and Mathematical Fundamentals/ Physics/ Computer science,—capable of implementing complex, long‑running algorithms off the SWT UI thread while maintaining a smooth, accessible user experience. What you’ll do • Design & build rich desktop UIs with Eclipse RCP (perspectives, views, editors, commands/handlers, extension points) using SWT/JFace and established UI/UX patterns (MVP/MVC, event‑driven design). • Implement OSGi modular architectures (bundles, services, dependency management), ensuring clean isolation between components and well‑defined interfaces. • Engineer context‑aware behaviors across the application: understand and extend how actions (e.g., button press) propagate through Eclipse Command/Handler/Context and OSGi Service Registry to deliver predictable, traceable outcomes. • Build and optimize multi‑threaded features: move long‑running scientific computations off the UI thread using the Eclipse Jobs API, executors, and background tasks; update UI safely via Display.asyncExec/syncExec. • Ensure UI responsiveness & performance for large datasets: job scheduling, progress reporting, cancellation, virtualized tables/viewers, and efficient rendering. • Apply software design patterns and domain‑driven design to keep code modular, testable, and maintainable. • Collaborate with product and UX to translate scientific/geology workflows into usable, high‑signal interfaces; instrument and iterate based on usability feedback. • Write clean, testable code with unit tests (e.g., JUnit), UI tests (e.g., SWTBot), and profiling/diagnostics for memory and performance. • Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and CI/CD build pipelines (Tycho/Maven/Gradle as applicable). • Contribute domain insights to data visualization and computational geometry/mathematics features (e.g., regression, derivatives, geometry operations).