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Software Engineering Technical Lead in Madrid or Remote

Frontiers

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Job Description

We are on a mission to make science open so everyone can live healthy lives on a healthy planet

Who we are

 

Frontiers is the 3rd most-cited and 6th largest research publisher and we publish groundbreaking discoveries by the world's top experts.

 

Scientists empower society and our mission is to accelerate scientific discovery by making science open. We place the researcher at the center of everything we do and enable the research community to develop the solutions we need to live healthy lives on a healthy planet.

 

Join the publishing revolution.

Job Role

We are currently looking for a talented and enthusiastic Technical Lead to join our Software Development Department and take responsibility for an offshore remote Development Team.

The primary focus of the role is to mentor and coach the offshore team to ensure quality is delivered, technical and functional requirements are properly understood, and issues are immediately addressed.

You will have to identify technical improvements for our platform and train the offshore team in modern technologies.

You will also work closely with the Product Manager, Business Analyst, Dev Team and QA Test Engineer, all contributing to performance and quality improvement while focusing on delivering the best user experience.

Frontiers is passionate about technology. Thanks to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) we can offer intelligent and innovative features to support and assist our users in the peer-review process.

We embrace innovation and we make conscientious use of the latest technologies, to take the best from them in our agile software development lifecycle.

You can have a look at our full technology stack by visiting our Technology Radar web page: https://www.frontiersin.io/tech-radar

Who are we looking for:

We are looking for a smart, communicative person with a dynamic mindset that can find their own way in a highly innovative and fast-paced environment to fulfil the role of a Technical Lead and acting as a Scrum Master inside the team to expand our Peer-review Product Development team.

We believe that the right person should have a natural curiosity to learn new things, should be a particularly good at organizing people and work, should enjoy working and collaborating daily with multiple people from multiple teams and should be happy to share knowledge and act as a trainer when needed.
 

Must Have:

  • 4+ years professional experience in software development with .NET

  • Knowledge of Agile/Scrum practices

  • Experience in Team leading positions

  • Experience with the Development of Web Applications (.NET stack)

  • Experience with any messaging platform (e.g. RabbitMQ, Azure Service Bus)

  • Experience with relational and non-relational databases (e.g. MSSQL, MongoDB)

  • Familiarity with cloud technologies (e.g. Azure, AWS, GCP)

  • Excellent written and spoken communication in English

Nice to have:

  • Experience Event-Driven Architecture

  • Experience with Kafka/Kafka Connect/kSQL

  • Experience with Workflow Automation Engines or business process modelling tools (Camunda or similar)

  • Basic knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes

  • Basic understanding of DevOps practices

Benefits

With more than 50 nationalities represented in our global team, you will work regularly with teammates in other countries, and with our community of researchers, editors, and authors from around the globe.

Our mission to create solutions for healthy lives also extends to the working environment we provide for our employees.

This includes:

100% remote working

Employees now have the flexibility to choose where they want to work, with remote working available on a part- or full-time basis (not applicable to some Workplace/IT jobs due to nature of role requiring presence onsite, in the office).

Learning and development

All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning (and Pluralsight for our technology team), an annual personal learning budget, and dedicated L&D time.

Wellbeing

We offer free online yoga classes, an employee assistance plan, access to the Headspace app, and four wellbeing days on top of your annual leave allowance.

Volunteering opportunities

Employees can dedicate three days each year to volunteer for a personal cause or through our volunteering partner platform, Alaya.

Frontiers actively embraces diversity and is a safe and welcoming workplace. Recruitment is free from discrimination – including based on race, national or ethnic origin, age, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or sexual orientation. With over 600 employees from more than 50 different nations, our diversity creates vibrant teams and constantly challenges us to appreciate multiple perspectives.

 

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