Senior Front 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
- Candidates with backend development experience are highly valued for their ability to support broader team objectives
- Proficiency in HTML, CSS, and TypeScript
- Extensive experience with React
- Striving to make our products accessible for everyone #a11y
- Proven ability to manage workload and priorities independently
- Effective communication and collaboration skills, capable of working closely with cross-functional teams
- Basic familiarity with backend development environments, including an understanding of server-side languages and database management
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks
- Familiarity with the Linux environment
Desirable
- Experience in optimizing the performance of web applications
- Experience with other frontend technologies like Web Components, NextJS, Styled Components or Tailwind
- Experience with Python development
- Understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes
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 Frontend Software Engineer, you will be an integral part of our Dimensions web application team
- Your role will focus on developing user-friendly and responsive frontend interfaces that seamlessly integrate with the backend infrastructure, contributing to the development of functionalities of the Dimensions platform
- 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
- Develop user-friendly, responsive and accessible frontend interfaces
- Collaborate with UX/UI designers to translate designs into functional user interfaces
- Integrate APIs and backend services with the frontend applications, understanding backend constraints and capabilities
- Write clean, scalable, and efficient code with emphasis on security and data protection
- Conduct unit and end-to-end testing of frontend components to ensure robustness and reliability
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to the continuous improvement of our development practices
- Assist with backend development tasks to ensure seamless integration and functionality
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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