Senior Back End 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 multiple programming languages and frameworks such as Python, Rust, Lua or Node.js
- Knowledge of microservices and distributed systems
- Proficiency in managing SQL and NoSQL databases
- Experience with cloud services (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and understanding of serverless architectures
- Knowledge of API development and management, including RESTful and GraphQL services
- Understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks
- Ability to work independently as a 'manager of one', managing tasks and projects from inception to completion
- Agile and DevOps methodologies
- An openness and willingness for continued learning and development, to build your AI and technical skills and capabilities
- Strong problem-solving capabilities and ability to work under tight deadlines
Desirable
- Experience with frontend technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and frameworks (React, Angular, Vue.js) is a plus
- Experience writing Python > 3.10 with type hints
- Experience writing APIs on FastAPI
- 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
- Eagerness to learn and grow within a dynamic and innovative team environment
What the job involves
- Join our pioneering technology company, 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 AI Solutions Development team within the Central Technology function
- Your role will focus on building robust, scalable backend systems that support our frontend applications
- This role requires a strong foundation in server-side programming, service-oriented architectures, API engineering, and database management
- Candidates with frontend development skills are highly valued for their ability to support broader team objectives
- Design and develop secure, scalable, and efficient backend services and APIs
- Manage database operations, ensuring data integrity and optimizing performance
- Integrate and maintain cloud-based services and infrastructure
- Collaborate with frontend developers to ensure seamless integration and operation of APIs
- Write clean, maintainable code and develop automated tests to ensure system reliability
- Plan, design and enhance automation frameworks, utilities and tools
- Write automated tests and support with the maintenance of our continuous integration pipeline
- Participate in code reviews, maintain version control, and adhere to best software development practices
- Occasionally 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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