Senior API Engineer, Overleaf
AI Solutions Development
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
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Node.js)
- API design and development using REST or GraphQL
- Database design and management
- Version control and collaboration using Git
- Experience with API testing and documentation
- Knowledge of API security best practices
- Understanding of microservices architecture
- Familiarity with API gateways and management tools
- An openness and willingness for continued learning and development, to build your AI and technical skills and capabilities
Desirable
- An understanding of the different kinds of language models and their applications and how to communicate and interact with LLMs through APIs of major libraries (Hugging Face, PyTorch, …)
- A conceptual understanding of the complexities in bringing ML into a product (processing requests, cost estimates, model limitations)
- Some experience in Natural Language Processing and / or Machine Learning
- Background in Python
- Knowledge of the required libraries (Hugging Face Transformers, PyTorch)
- Knowledge in Vertex AI or Sagemaker
What the job involves
- As our Senior API Engineer you will be focussed on developing and maintaining API’s, implementing API security and ensuring that the required API features are implemented
- Develop and maintain APIs for the platform
- Design and manage databases required for API operations
- Create and maintain API documentation
- Implement API security measures and access control
- Implement the required AI features as microservices
- Collaborate with frontend and backend developers to ensure smooth integration of APIs into application
- Optimize integrations for performance, reliability and responsiveness to handle high levels of data retrieval and interaction
- Write unit and end-to-end tests and participate in code reviews
- Monitor API performance and troubleshoot issues related to API functionality, data synchronization and platform changes
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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