Senior Software Engineer, Overleaf
Metaphacts
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 degree in computer science or related area
- Deep understanding of software design, architecture and development
- Significant experience as a front-end developer in a software company with a history of successful delivery to customers
- Experience with Web application development (CSS, TypeScript, React, HTML5 and related technologies), functional programming and modeling
- Deep understanding of modern web development stack and tools (webpack, npm, git, continuous integration, issue tracking, etc.)
- Experience in organising data flow via JSON, Rest API, etc
- Experience with modern databases, specifically graph databases is a plus
- Knowledge of Semantic Web technologies (RDF, SPARQL, OWL) is a plus
- Experience in using Linux, virtualization tools and cloud services: AWS, Docker, etc
- Capability and eagerness to learn new technologies and frameworks
- Experience in communication in small teams with agile development methodologies
- Problem solving, analytical and time management skills
- Fluent English-speaking and English-writing skills
What the job involves
- You will be part of our product development team and work together with our product manager, architects and fellow software engineers on further enhancing our product metaphactory
- Together with the team, you will plan the next sprint and discuss proposed solutions to problems involving data management, performance, user experience, algorithms, and user interfaces
- You will take responsibility to solve problems by delivering high-quality code that will be part of our product and will be immediately used by our customers. You will help answer questions from our support and sales teams to guarantee the best customer experience possible
- Designing and implementing software components for our metaphactory platform
- Understanding requirements and creating technical specifications that meet business needs
- Performing code reviews to ensure our quality standards
- Writing technical documentation for developed features
- Providing technical guidance to junior developers, helping them to grow
- Staying up-to-date on technology trends
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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