Senior Software Engineer, Academia

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$160-220k

+ Stock options

React

TypeScript

JavaScript

Python

Linux

Ruby

Rails

Ruby on Rails

Unix

REST API

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

3 days a week in office (Financial District, San Francisco)

A platform for academics to share research papers

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A platform for academics to share research papers

201-500 employees

B2CMarketplaceEducationPublishingAnalytics

Be an early applicant

$160-220k

+ Stock options

React

TypeScript

JavaScript

Python

Linux

Ruby

Rails

Ruby on Rails

Unix

REST API

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

3 days a week in office (Financial District, San Francisco)

201-500 employees

B2CMarketplaceEducationPublishingAnalytics

Company mission

To accelerate research, advance science, and transform the world.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Strong technical judgment in breaking down complex features into small, safe, deployable increments
Strong collaborative skills and experience working closely with product teams
Knowledge and use of common data structures and algorithms to solve problems
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to build solutions and products
Ability and willingness to learn new languages and technologies as needed
5+ years of professional software development experience designing and building large scalable systems, consumer-facing web apps, or web platforms in a Unix/Linux environment
Professional level of coding proficiency with one of the following; Ruby, Python, or Node.js+Javascript or Node.js+Typescript. Must be willing to learn/work with Ruby on Rails stack
Solid understanding of databases, including data modeling and query optimization
Rest API/back-end coding in a scripting language
Web Front-end coding experience, e.g., JavaScript, Typescript, React.js, a plus
Experience with payment systems (especially Stripe or Braintree) is a plus

What the job involves

Working on features that directly impact our bottom line
Iterating fast with a lot of cross-functional collaboration
Owning their projects end-to-end across the full stack
Deploying small, incremental changes multiple times per day
Maintaining a high bar for reliability of critical systems like payments
You don’t need to know our tech stack, but you must be willing and able to learn and apply it quickly!
Our Tech Stack:
Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq
PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch
React + Typescript
RSpec, Chromatic, Jest, Storybook
CircleCI, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, Datadog
AWS ecosystem (EC2, S3, RDS, Redshift, Aurora, and many others)
You'll be designing and building systems and web applications to make our user base more productive on our platform. Here are some things that we are currently working on:
A/B test tooling that enables fast, easy tests so that we can explore a wider variety of experiments
Features that help academics find new opportunities for funding and improve their grant applications with generative AI
Technical payment system optimizations that decrease accidental subscription loss
Services that help academic authors understand the impact of their scholarship via text parsing and computation of bibliometrics

Our take

Academia.edu is pitched as a social media platform to help researchers and academics share papers for free - with over 185 million registered users and over 30 million visitors per month, it has remained an active and popular platform since its founding in 2008.

The company has had a chequered relationship with the academics it proposes to serve (and the institutions it intends to disrupt). Some claim the new paywalled suite of features runs counter to the free and open-access model; others baulk at its use of the .edu domain usually reserved for academic institutions (they registered before its use became restricted).

To overcome these obstacles, the platform continues to evolve as a key player for researchers. With future plans to launch high-impact open-access journals, develop an advanced paper recommendation system, and increase daily academic engagement. It's an exciting future, however, only time will tell how these new developments will be received.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

4% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.3)

Trustpilot (1.3)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Feb 2022

$23m

SERIES D

Mar 2019

$16m

SERIES C

Total funding: $56.2m

Company benefits

Comprehensive Healthcare Coverage: 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
Generous Time Off: 21 paid vacation days, 12 paid company holidays, and unlimited sick days; paid parental leave and other leaves for life’s needs; 6-week paid sabbatical every 4 years
Flexible Work Arrangements: Flexible daily schedules within a hybrid work environment, annual remote-office budget, and monthly WFH internet stipend
401k plan, and stock options

Company HQ

Financial District, San Francisco, CA

Articles

Academia.edu Raises $23M in Series D Funding

Leadership

Richard Price

(Founder & CEO)

Studied PPE at Oxford, going on to complete a PhD in Philosophy. Founded two other businesses: LiveOut.co.uk, and PeopleRadar.co.uk. For 7 years was a Fellow of All Souls College at Oxford University.

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