Python Job: Senior Python Engineer

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.

About the opportunity:

To empower scientists and radically improve how science is published, evaluated and disseminated to researchers, innovators, and the public, we have built our own state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence Review Assistant (AIRA). At the heart of AIRA, resides a process that evaluates the quality of a submitted article. This process is vital to ensure high quality articles are published in our platform.

We are now looking for a passionate Senior Software Engineer, skilled in Python, to join our growing team and help us evolve AIRA and the article evaluation process.

Key Responsibilities:

As a Senior Python Engineer, you will be responsible for optimizing or re-designing AIRA's quality process to support our next generation of product features and data initiatives. You will be expanding and optimizing our quality pipeline architecture as well as the service layer that supports it. You will be defining the architecture and implementing the solution in Python following the best practices.

The ideal candidate is an experienced Python developer that enjoys defining an architecture and building solutions from the ground up, with strong background in API development, relational databases, algorithms and data strictures. You will work together with other software engineers, data engineers, machine learning engineers and data scientists.

Requirements:

• Strong experience in API development and experience with at least one Python framework to create APIs (e.g. Django, Flask, FastAPI)
• Strong experience with relational databases
• Experience with background tasks
• Experience with Docker (build custom Docker images for deployment)
• Deep understanding of system design, data structures and algorithms
• Up to date with the latest trends in Python
• Fluent English

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.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• Employee assistance program

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: Remote