Staff Software Engineer, Academia

$186-237.5k

+Stock Options

React

AWS

TypeScript

JavaScript

Python

Elasticsearch

Redis

Linux

Node.js

Sidekiq

Postgres

Ruby

Terraform

Jenkins

Ansible

Redshift

Jest

Rspec

RDS

Rails

Ruby on Rails

Unix

REST API

Datadog

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

2 days a week in office

A platform for academics to share research papers

Open for applications

A platform for academics to share research papers

101-200 employees

B2CMarketplaceEducationPublishingAnalytics

Open for applications

$186-237.5k

+Stock Options

React

AWS

TypeScript

JavaScript

Python

Elasticsearch

Redis

Linux

Node.js

Sidekiq

Postgres

Ruby

Terraform

Jenkins

Ansible

Redshift

Jest

Rspec

RDS

Rails

Ruby on Rails

Unix

REST API

Datadog

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

2 days a week in office

101-200 employees

B2CMarketplaceEducationPublishingAnalytics

Company mission

Academia.edu is on a mission to accelerate the world's research. Their goal is to speed up research in every domain - finding a solution to climate change; finding cures for diseases; evolving artificial intelligence.

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Company

Role

Who you are

Our ideal candidates are great at what they do and mission-driven. They have experience working across the entire web stack and are excited about owning product and engineering initiatives. Experience scaling web applications to handle an increasing user base into the millions is especially desirable
Good coding habits are a must
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
7+yrs. professional software development experience designing and building large scalable systems, consumer-facing web apps, or web platforms in a Unix/Linux environment
Experience as a technical team lead, influencing the work of multiple teams on projects
Experience as the technical owner of key projects
Experience architecting, building, and testing large-scale production-level code
Proven record solving complex product development problems.Able to build well-structured, easily maintainable, well-documented code
Professional 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 database modeling, data manipulation, and querying
Rest API coding in a scripting language
Web Front-end coding experience, e.g., JavaScript, Typescript, React.js, a plus

What the job involves

Technical lead for designing, building, and testing major software components, systems, features, and products
Collaborate with Product and Design to build innovative software products and solutions
Responsible for meeting team Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)
Collaborate with Product and Design teams to deliver innovative solutions
Own team Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) for timely, high-quality outcomes.Influence and mentor multiple teams as a technical leader
Architect, build, and test large-scale production-level code
Solve complex product development problems and adhere to best practices
Understands business objectives and the necessary processes to achieve them
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 fast and scalable peer review system that identifies and distributes high-quality academic works
Services that help academic authors understand the impact of their scholarship via text parsing and computation of bibliometrics
Algorithmic approaches to identification of academic content and disambiguation of authorships in order to make every paper ever written available for free
A paper recommendation engine that helps users discover the most relevant research
Search Engine Optimizations to improve the discoverability of our corpus of 55M+ PDFs

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 balk at their use of the .edu domain usually reserved for academic institutions (they registered before its use became restricted).

Perhaps to overcome these obstacles, and to give them an edge over the increasing preference for competitors like ResearchGate and Google Scholar, Academia.edu have taken some interesting steps. One was to develop a mobile app for the platform. Another was the early 2020 acquisition of entrepreneurial training and toolkit platform The Start-Up Gate. This latter decision could signal an exciting new developmental direction for Academia.edu - but thus far, the motivation remains unclear.

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 (1.4)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Feb 2022

$23m

SERIES D

Mar 2019

$16m

SERIES C

Total funding: $56.2m

Company benefits

21 days of paid vacation and 11 paid holidays per year
8 weeks of paid bonding parental leave plus 8 weeks of birth parent leave
6 weeks of fully-paid sabbatical leave for every four years you work here
Book stipend
Catered lunch
Stock options
Work from home opportunities
Health insurance
401k
FSA
Activities
Commuter benefits

Company values

Mission Oriented
Kindness

Company HQ

Financial District, San Francisco, CA

Articles

Academia.edu Raises $16M, Launches Mobile App for Researchers

The end of Academia.edu: how business takes over, again

Start-up Gate was acquired by Academia.edu

Academia.edu Raises $23M in Series D Funding

Some Problems of Citizens’ Assemblies

Leadership

Richard Price

(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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