Java Developer, Overleaf
Online LaTeX editor
Job no longer available
Online LaTeX editor
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help make science and research faster, more open and more transparent.
Role
Who you are
- A successfully completed degree in computer science or equivalent skills and knowledge acquired in practice are required for this position
- Excellent command of the Java programming language
- A good level of experience with React
- Experience working with Python and AWS
Desirable
- Knowledge and interest in ML methods of annotation and knowledge extraction
- A basic knowledge of life sciences and chemistry
- Experience with NLP and knowledge extraction
- Commitment and reliability are a matter of course for you. In addition, you are characterized by a high degree of teamwork, flexibility and initiative
- English is a must, German is nice-to-have
What the job involves
- Your tasks will be to help in the creation of dictionaries used during annotation.
- QA existing processes and to improve methodology both for the primary step of annotation as well as for the knowledge extraction built upon that
- You can expect a varied, interesting and responsible job in a qualified and committed team
Our take
Dubbed the Google Docs for science, Overleaf enables modern collaborative authoring tools for academics. Its primary product is an online, real-time collaborative editor for papers, theses, technical reports, and so on, written in the LaTeX markup language.
Despite being founded in 2012, it has experienced its largest phase of growth only relatively recently. This is partially due to an increased need for collaborative tools among scientists who are working in globally distributed teams, but also because of Overleaf's growing reputation as a sophisticated platform for academics. It passed the 10 million user mark in 2021 and has continued to grow steadily in popularity.
The company, in its own words, has entered a new era, and describes its goal as becoming the first port of call for scientific writing for researchers, students and enterprises alike. With a product under constant development and a large and enthusiastic community of users, it is well poised to achieve its aim.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Aug 2013
$0.1m
SEED
Total funding: $0.1m
Company benefits
- Remote and flexible working
- You would join a small, dedicated and growing team
- We're substantially (around 80%) open source, so your work will often be on open source
- We're backed by Bethnal Green Ventures (https://bethnalgreenventures.com/) and Digital Science (https://www.digital-science.com/), through which we're part of a wider community of startups in science, health and ed-tech
- Our London office is shared with several other Digital Science companies, so there's lots of interesting people to meet, and clubs and sports activities outside of work
- You can pick your own equipment. MacBook Pro? Lenovo ThinkPad? Notebook and pen? However you like to work, we'll provide what you need
- We provide a training budget; many of our staff choose to attend relevant industry conferences or buy training materials
- We run a biweekly internal seminar series (show and tell) with short talks from staff about their work or personal projects, new technologies and techniques
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Leadership
John Lees-Miller
(CTO)Previously served as a Systems Engineer for Advanced Transport Systems - Ultra PRT, Network and Website Supervisor for Lister Hall Student Association, and as CTO for A Virtual View.
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