We are on a mission to make science open so everyone can live healthy lives on a healthy planet
Who we are
Frontiers is an award-winning open science platform and leading open access scholarly publisher.
We are one of the largest and most cited publishers globally. To date, our 200,000 freely available research articles have received more than 1 billion views and downloads and 2 million citations. Our journals span science, health, humanities and social sciences, engineering, and sustainability. And we continue to expand into new academic disciplines so more researchers can publish open access.
Be part of the publishing revolution and help us transform the way research is published, evaluated, and communicated to the world.
Job Role:
Your primary focus will be 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 be identifying technical improvements for our platform and training the offshore team in modern technologies, and 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.
Who are we looking for?
We are looking for a technical, smart, communicative person with a dynamic mindset to join one of our Publishing Platform Product Development teams, who can find their own way in a highly innovative and fast-paced environment to fulfill the role of a Technical Lead for the team.
Requirements
4+ years professional experience in software development with .Net
Knowledge of Agile/Scrum practices
Experience in Team leading positions
Hands-on experience with C# and .Net stack (Asp.Net MVC, Entity Framework)
Experience with relational and non-relational databases (e.g. MSSQL, MongoDB)
Excellent written and spoken communication in English
Nice to have
Experience working on large projects, concerning multiple teams
Experience with RabbitMQ or Kafka
Familiarity with cloud technologies (e.g. Azure, AWS, GCP)
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 Business Support jobs due to nature of role).
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.