Senior Back End Engineer, Overleaf
Dimensions
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
- This role requires a strong foundation in server-side programming, service-oriented architectures, API engineering, and database management
- Candidates with frontend development experience are highly valued for their ability to support broader team objectives
- Proficiency in Python
- Knowledge of microservices and distributed systems
- Proficiency in SQL
- Experience with Python web micro-frameworks (Pyramid and FastAPI), Nginx, PostgreSQL
- Understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Agile and DevOps methodologies
- An openness and willingness for continued learning and development, to build your technical skills and capabilities
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks
- Familiarity with the Linux environment
Desirable
- Experience with frontend technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript//TypeScript) and frameworks (React, Web Components) is a plus
- Knowledge of search engines (Solr, ElasticSearch)
- Some experience with Rust
- Interest in developing user-friendly, responsive and accessible frontend interfaces
What the job involves
- Join Digital Science, and contribute to our vision of creating a more open, efficient, and effective research ecosystem
- As a Senior Backend Software Engineer, you will be an integral part of our Dimensions web application team
- Your role will focus on maintaining and improving the Dimensions Platform, working closely to the frontend application to deliver a robust and scalable system
- This is a great opportunity for someone who is looking to expand their skills and capabilities to encompass more of a rounded engineering career, developing the ability to take on complete end to end tasks
- Design and develop secure, scalable, and efficient backend services and APIs
- Manage database operations, ensuring data integrity and optimizing performance
- Write clean, maintainable code and documentation
- Develop automated tests to ensure system reliability
- Design, write and maintain automation frameworks, utilities and tools
- Participate in code reviews and adhere to best software development practices
- Assist with frontend development tasks to support cross-functional team objectives
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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