Staff Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• Own team 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.

Your skillset:

• 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, implementing, and testing large-scale production-level code.
• Proven record solving complex product development problems.
• Professional coding proficiency with one of the following: Ruby, Python, or Node.js+Javascript or Node.js+Typescript. 
• Must be willing to learn/use a Ruby on Rails stack.
• A solid understanding of database modeling, data manipulation, and querying is a must.
• Rest API coding in a scripting language.
• Web Front-end coding experience, e.g., JavaScript, Typescript, React.js, a plus.

Our Tech stack:

• Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq
• PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch
• React + Typescript
• RSpec, Chromatic, Jest, Storybook
• CircleCI, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, Datadog
• AWS ecosystem (EC2, S3, RDS, Redshift, Aurora, and many others)


You don’t need to know our tech stack, but you must be willing and able to learn and apply it quickly!

What you’ll work on:

• 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.
• A people recommendation engine that helps users connect with others who share their interests.
• Search Engine Optimizations to improve the discoverability of our corpus of 55M+ PDFs.

What impact will you have?

• Researchers from all over the world give us fantastic feedback:
• “I go through all the articles in the bulk download, save the ones that are clearly going to be useful, and discard the remainder. This saves loads of time but also points me in directions I might not otherwise have thought of looking.”
• “The bulk downloads give me the chance to read more related articles as well as see what research is citing the article I am looking at.  It also helps me rapidly expand my personal digital library of references.”
• See more: https://www.academia.edu


Compensation