Software Engineer
FrontiersMadrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Posted December 9, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
Frontiers is a leading research publisher. Our role is to provide the world’s scientists with a rigorous and efficient publishing experience. Scientists empower society and our mission is to accelerate collaboration and discovery by making science open – enabling researchers to find the solutions we all need for healthy lives on a healthy planet. Powered by custom-built technology, artificial intelligence, and a collaborative peer review, our community journals give experts in more than 1,800 academic fields an open access platform to publish high quality, high impact research. Through our outreach work to build strong partnerships with businesses, policymakers, and educators, we’re leading the transition to open science. For more information, visit: http://www.frontiersin.org
Job Description
We are looking for an enthusiastic.NET Engineer to join our team in evolving Frontiers' publishing platform. The platform is large and complex, combining both modern and legacy technologies. You will work across the stack, developing and maintaining features using.NET, Vue.js, and other technologies. As part of this transformation, you'll help rebuild legacy components with modern solutions, ensuring better performance, maintainability, and integration across the platform.
Requirements
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance web applications using.NET and Vue.js.
- Enhance and support existing solutions built with older versions of.NET and Vue.js.
- Troubleshoot and optimize database performance, including query optimization, indexing strategies, and transaction management in SQL Server and MongoDB.
- Collaborate with product managers, architects, and other cross-functional teams to gather requirements, assess technical feasibility, and determine optimal implementation strategies.
- Collaborate within a multinational, cross-functional team to deliver software solutions aligned with business needs.
- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code while adhering to best practices.
- Ensure the quality of the delivered solutions.
- Optimize applications for performance, scalability, and responsiveness.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical challenges.
- Conduct code reviews.
- Willingness to learn, flexible approach, and staying current with emerging trends in IT to maintain an up-to-date technology stack.
Benefits
- 4 additional wellbeing days in addition to existing annual leave allowance
- Access to learning platforms and dedicated learning & development time
- A range of wellbeing initiatives, including free online yoga classes and an employee assistance plan
- Employees can dedicate three days each year to volunteer
- Additional benefits depending on your location (e.g. pension plan and private medical care)