Software Engineer, Overton

Salary not provided

PHP

Python

Elasticsearch

Postgres

Junior and Mid level

London

Remote from UK

Overton connects research with policy

Open for applications

Overton connects research with policy

21-100 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEducationLearningBusiness IntelligenceMachine LearningGovernmentsSaaSAPIScience

Open for applications

Salary not provided

PHP

Python

Elasticsearch

Postgres

Junior and Mid level

London

Remote from UK

21-100 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEducationLearningBusiness IntelligenceMachine LearningGovernmentsSaaSAPIScience

Company mission

Our goal is to enhance the links between research and policy, to ensure that the necessary data and insights get across to the people making decisions. We want to empower these decision-makers to recognise and use good evidence, and help experts understand how to influence and affect change.

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Who you are

We’re looking for a developer with at least 2-3 years of experience working with SaaS applications in PHP. Ideally you’d also have one or two from (most important to least):
Any experience with Laravel or Craft CMS
Javascript for front-end work (vanilla is fine, experience of frameworks is a bonus - we use React)
Any experience with Python (we’re using this more and more)
Experience working with and maintaining large (multi-terabyte) databases
Knowledge of Elasticsearch and/or Postgresql

Desirable

A background or experience working in academic publishing, scientific research or government
Experience running web scraping projects at scale
Experience with data processing pipelines
Experience building and consuming REST APIs
Experience of graph databases or processing
While experience helps we’re not expecting you to know everything: your ability to learn is more important to us!

What the job involves

We’re looking to hire an enthusiastic and talented mid-weight PHP developer to join our tech team and help us further develop our data processing pipeline and web platforms
We deploy daily and you’ll be making changes customers can see from day one. Some key projects on our roadmap this year include; migrating key sections of our app from legacy code to Laravel and React, working with our data team to integrate machine learning models into our data pipeline and front end
You’ll be joining us at an exciting stage of development and there’ll be lots of opportunity to try out new ideas, for professional development and to learn about developing a new product inside a start-up environment
We work on a number of different projects and products, with our key technology stack being PHP, Python, Postgres and Elasticsearch. For our primary product, Overton, we scrape and process a large number of documents from the web, index them and allow users to search them through the web app
The majority of our code is written in PHP but some parts of the data pipeline are written in Python which is what we use for our data science work. We need you to be familiar with PHP already, but can help you learn anything you’re missing

Salary benchmarks

Our take

Overton has built one of the world’s largest searchable indexes of policy documents, think tank publications, working papers and guidelines in a bid to help universities and other research teams measure how their work influences policy-making decisions.

The company is still in its early stages, having been founded in 2019, but it's got an ambitious long term goal of making government policy making, or rather the evidence behind it, more transparent.

Given the fact that Overton has built a pioneering product, and is targeting sales from well-funded universities, NGOs and government agencies, its prospects are pretty bright. The company is focused on refining its software to ensure source coverage, and introducing new features.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

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Company benefits

Hybrid and flexible working
A supportive, friendly work environment within a company that cares about its staff and its impact on the world (we are accredited by the Living Wage Foundation and the FSB Good Business Charter and we’re Net Zero!)
Enhanced employer pension contribution of 6%
28 days leave plus 8 bank holidays (36 total), pro rata for part time
3 months' of maternity leave paid at 90% of base salary and a return-to-work bonus payment, after 6 months' service
3 months' of shared parental leave paid at 90% of base salary (less any time already taken as paid maternity/paternity leave) and a return-to-work bonus payment, after 6 months' service
6 weeks' of paternity leave paid at 90% of base salary, after 6 months' service
With no minimum length of service, 2 weeks' paternity leave paid at 90% of base salary and the option to take an additional 4 weeks' unpaid leave
We’ll provide a new Mac, PC or Linux laptop along with a stipend for other equipment
The chance to have a real, customer facing impact on the product and team from your first week here
Private health insurance with Bupa

Company values

Having a positive impact on the world through our product and our company operations
Being friendly and helpful
Being honest and transparent

Company HQ

London, UK

Leadership

Euan Adie

(CEO)

Prior to Overton, Euan founded Altmetric, a company that tracks the attention paid to scholarly works online. Altmetric was acquired by Digital Science in 2015.

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