Academia.edu | Full Stack Web Engineers; Product Managers; Data Analysts; Sr iOS | San Francisco, CA | Covid compliant; REMOTE OK until “return to work”.
About Academia.edu
Despite Covid-19, we had no layoffs, are private and profitable, and still growing. This is a great time to join us!
Life is short - do something that matters! Our mission is to accelerate research, which will change the world for the better.
Academia's platform has more than 150 million registered users (growing at over 150,000 per day), and has over 65 million unique visitors every month. We have over 280,000 paying premium subscribers, and our revenue has grown 50-60% YoY for the past 2-years.
Full Stack Engineers:
Must have:
* Strong Computer Science fundamentals; i.e. data structures, algorithms, system design, web architecture.
* Ability and willingness to learn and apply new languages and technologies quickly.
* Good coding and debugging habits.
* Analytical and problem solving skills.
Nice to have: We use: Ruby on Rails, React (to make our FE more responsive), RSpec and Jasmine for testing, PostgreSQL for data storage, Redis for in-memory data structures, Elasticsearch for our full-text search engine, Kafka for our publish-subscribe messaging, Neo4J for managing our email lists, all working with AWS, EC2 spot instances and autoscaling, and Ansible for configuration management.
Sr. Mobile Engineer - iOS: We are building entirely new iOS mobile apps for Academia. The codebase is brand new and done with Swift with a JSON REST API. Our mobile engineers will learn some basic backend development to enable them to create database migrations and API endpoints essentially making us “mobile full-stack”. We are taking our time to get the architecture and design patterns right, in order to build a high-quality product in lieu of taking shortcuts to rush to market.
Academia.edu | Full Stack Web Engineers; Product Managers; Data Analysts; Sr iOS | San Francisco, CA | Covid compliant; REMOTE OK until “return to work”.
About Academia.edu
Despite Covid-19, we had no layoffs, are private and profitable, and still growing. This is a great time to join us!
Life is short - do something that matters! Our mission is to accelerate research, which will change the world for the better.
Academia's platform has more than 150 million registered users (growing at over 150,000 per day), and has over 65 million unique visitors every month. We have over 280,000 paying premium subscribers, and our revenue has grown 50-60% YoY for the past 2-years.
Full Stack Engineers:
Must have:
* Strong Computer Science fundamentals; i.e. data structures, algorithms, system design, web architecture.
* Ability and willingness to learn and apply new languages and technologies quickly.
* Good coding and debugging habits.
* Analytical and problem solving skills.
Nice to have: We use: Ruby on Rails, React (to make our FE more responsive), RSpec and Jasmine for testing, PostgreSQL for data storage, Redis for in-memory data structures, Elasticsearch for our full-text search engine, Kafka for our publish-subscribe messaging, Neo4J for managing our email lists, all working with AWS, EC2 spot instances and autoscaling, and Ansible for configuration management.
Sr. Mobile Engineer - iOS: We are building entirely new iOS mobile apps for Academia. The codebase is brand new and done with Swift with a JSON REST API. Our mobile engineers will learn some basic backend development to enable them to create database migrations and API endpoints essentially making us “mobile full-stack”. We are taking our time to get the architecture and design patterns right, in order to build a high-quality product in lieu of taking shortcuts to rush to market.
For a list of all our job openings and full details including benefits go here: www.academa.edu/openings
Academia.edu | Full Stack Web Engineers; Product Managers; Data Analysts; Sr iOS | San Francisco, CA | Covid compliant; REMOTE OK until “return to work”.
About Academia.edu
Despite Covid-19, we had no layoffs, are private and profitable, and still growing. This is a great time to join us!
Life is short - do something that matters! Our mission is to accelerate research, which will change the world for the better.
Academia's platform has more than 150 million registered users (growing at over 150,000 per day), and has over 65 million unique visitors every month. We have over 280,000 paying premium subscribers, and our revenue has grown 50-60% YoY for the past 2-years.
Full Stack Engineers:
Must have:
* Strong Computer Science fundamentals; i.e. data structures, algorithms, system design, web architecture.
* Ability and willingness to learn and apply new languages and technologies quickly.
* Good coding and debugging habits.
* Analytical and problem solving skills.
Nice to have:
We use: Ruby on Rails, React (to make our FE more responsive), RSpec and Jasmine for testing, PostgreSQL for data storage, Redis for in-memory data structures, Elasticsearch for our full-text search engine, Kafka for our publish-subscribe messaging, Neo4J for managing our email lists, all working with AWS, EC2 spot instances and autoscaling, and Ansible for configuration management.
Sr. Mobile Engineer - iOS:
We are building entirely new iOS mobile apps for Academia. The codebase is brand new and done with Swift with a JSON REST API. Our mobile engineers will learn some basic backend development to enable them to create database migrations and API endpoints essentially making us “mobile full-stack”. We are taking our time to get the architecture and design patterns right, in order to build a high-quality product in lieu of taking shortcuts to rush to market.
For a list of all our job openings and full details including benefits go here: www.academa.edu/openings
Academia.edu | Full Stack Engineers; Product Managers; Data Scientists | San Francisco, CA | Onsite
Academia.edu is a distribution and peer review platform for academic research. The Academia.edu platform addresses two problems:
- Open access. The goal here is to put every academic paper ever written on the internet, available for free.
- Robustness. The goal here is to produce a set of signals around any given academic paper that indicate how robust the paper’s claims and findings are.
It has emerged over the last few years that 65-90% of the academic literature is not reproducible. What this means is that if you try to reproduce the experiments described in a paper, 65-90% of the time you will not get the same findings. This is known as "the reproducibility crisis”. Peer review is not a robustness filter; we need a separate filter to indicate robustness.
With regard to open access, Academia allows academics to upload papers to Academia, and make them freely available. Academics have uploaded about 20 million pdfs to Academia.edu. About 60 million people come to Academia each month to access and share papers.
With regard to robustness, we think the way to build a robustness layer on top of papers is a) to mine the existing graph of citations for commentary and (b) crowd-source commentary/peer review from the academic community.
Academia has built a recommendation system which is the basis of our approach to (b), and a citation graph infrastructure that is the basis of our approach to (a). We believe that addressing robustness is a challenge and an opportunity. We need mission-driven engineers to come and help us.
We have raised $33 million from Tencent, Khosla Ventures, Spark Capital, and True Ventures. The company has a freemium business model. Bijan Sabet from Spark Capital writes "We believe open science is really important. We believe Academia.edu is going to have a profound impact on the world."
We are looking to hire full stack software engineers, product managers, and data scientists. Technologies we use include Ruby, Rails, Postgres, DynamoDB, React. Our office is in downtown San Francisco. For more information, visit http://academia.edu/hiring.
Academia.edu | Full Stack Engineers; Product Managers; Data Scientists | San Francisco, CA | Onsite
The mission of Academia.edu is to accelerate the world’s research. To accelerate the pace of discovery. Academia.edu is building a new communications system for the dissemination and peer review of academic research.
We believe that there are some inefficiencies in academic publishing today. We believe that by shifting to an internet-first dissemination system, academic publishing can be made faster, cheaper, and more reliable.
Over 20 million papers have been uploaded to Academia.edu, out of 100 million papers ever written. About 40 million people visit Academia.edu each month to access academic research. Academia.edu became profitable in 2017 off of a premium business model.
Here are some of the priorities at Academia.edu:
- Open access: we want every paper ever written to be on the internet, available for free
- Distribution system: for any given upload, it could be distributed to any one of Academia.edu's 72 million registered users. The goal of the distribution system is to enable a paper be distributed to the right subset of people. We want that subset to see that paper in their News Feed and think “Wow, I really want to read that.”
- Multi-platform: we started out on Web, and we are in the process of releasing an iOS app. After the iOS app, we will release an Android app.
- Peer review: as papers are distributed through the Academia.edu graph, academics share their opinions about those papers, and those opinions aggregate over time.
We have raised $33 million from Tencent, Khosla Ventures, Spark Capital, and True Ventures. Bijan Sabet from Spark Capital writes "We believe open science is really important. We believe Academia.edu is going to have a profound impact on the world."
We are looking to hire full stack software engineers, iOS engineers, product managers, and data scientists. Technologies we use include Ruby, Rails, Postgres, DynamoDB, React. Our office is in downtown San Francisco. For more information, visit http://academia.edu/hiring.
If you are interested to learn more, please email the CEO, Richard Price, at richard [at] academia.edu
Academia.edu | Full Stack Engineers; Product Managers; Data Scientists | San Francisco, CA | Onsite
Academia.edu is addressing two problems:
- Open access. The goal here is to put every academic pdf ever written on the internet, available for free.
- Robustness. The goal here is to produce a set of signals around any given academic paper that indicate how robust the paper’s claims and findings are.
It has emerged over the last few years that 65-90% of the academic literature is not reproducible. What this means is that if you try to reproduce the experiments described in a paper, 65-90% of the time you will not get the same findings. This is known as "the reproducibility crisis”. Peer review is not a robustness filter; we need a separate filter to indicate robustness.
With regard to open access, Academia allows academics to upload papers to Academia, and make them freely available. Academics have uploaded about 19 million pdfs to Academia.edu. About 30 million people come to Academia each month to access and share papers.
With regard to robustness, we think the way to build a robustness layer on top of papers is a) to mine the existing graph of citations for commentary and (b) crowd-source commentary/peer review from the academic community.
Academia has built a recommendation system which is the basis of our approach to (b), and a citation graph infrastructure that is the basis of our approach to (a). We believe that addressing robustness is a challenge and an opportunity. We need mission-driven engineers to come and help us.
We have raised $33 million from Tencent, Khosla Ventures, Spark Capital, and True Ventures. The company is profitable off a premium subscription model. Bijan Sabet from Spark Capital writes "We believe open science is really important. We believe Academia.edu is going to have a profound impact on the world."
We are looking to hire full stack software engineers, product managers, and data scientists. Technologies we use include Ruby, Rails, Postgres, DynamoDB, React. Our office is in downtown San Francisco. For more information, visit http://academia.edu/hiring.
If you are interested to learn more, please email the CEO, Richard Price, at richard [at] academia.edu
Academia.edu | Full Stack Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Onsite
Academia.edu is addressing two problems:
- Open access. The goal here is to put every academic pdf ever written on the internet, available for free.
- Robustness. The goal here is to produce a set of signals around any given academic paper that indicate how robust the paper’s claims and findings are.
It has emerged over the last few years that 65-90% of the academic literature is not reproducible. What this means is that if you try to reproduce the experiments described in a paper, 65-90% of the time you will not get the same findings. This is known as "the reproducibility crisis”. Peer review is not a robustness filter; we need a separate filter to indicate robustness.
With regard to open access, Academia allows academics to upload papers to Academia, and make them freely available. Academics have uploaded about 19 million pdfs to Academia.edu. About 30 million people come to Academia each month to access and share papers.
With regard to robustness, we think the way to build a robustness layer on top of papers is a) to mine the existing graph of citations for commentary and (b) crowd-source commentary/peer review from the academic community.
Academia has built a recommendation system which is the basis of our approach to (b), and a citation graph infrastructure that is the basis of our approach to (a). We believe that addressing robustness is a challenge and an opportunity. We need mission-driven engineers to come and help us.
We have raised $33 million from Tencent, Khosla Ventures, Spark Capital, and True Ventures. The company is profitable off a premium subscription model. Bijan Sabet from Spark Capital writes "We believe open science is really important. We believe Academia.edu is going to have a profound impact on the world."
We are looking to hire full stack software engineers. Technologies we use include Ruby, Rails, Postgres, DynamoDB, React. Our office is in downtown San Francisco. For more information, visit http://academia.edu/hiring.
If you are interested to learn more, please email the CEO, Richard Price, at richard [at] academia.edu
Academia.edu | Full Stack Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Onsite
Academia.edu is addressing two problems:
- Open access. The goal here is to put every academic pdf ever written on the internet, available for free.
- Robustness. The goal here is to produce a set of signals around any given academic paper that indicate how robust the paper’s claims and findings are.
It has emerged over the last few years that 65-90% of the academic literature is not reproducible. What this means is that if you try to reproduce the experiments described in a paper, 65-90% of the time you will not get the same findings. This is known as "the reproducibility crisis”. Peer review is not a robustness filter; we need a separate filter to indicate robustness.
With regard to open access, Academia allows academics to upload papers to Academia, and make them freely available. Academics have uploaded about 19 million pdfs to Academia.edu. About 30 million people come to Academia each month to access and share papers.
With regard to robustness, we think the way to build a robustness layer on top of papers is a) to mine the existing graph of citations for commentary and (b) crowd-source commentary/peer review from the academic community.
Academia has built a recommendation system which is the basis of our approach to (b), and a citation graph infrastructure that is the basis of our approach to (a). We believe that addressing robustness is a challenge and an opportunity. We need mission-driven engineers to come and help us.
We have raised $33 million from Tencent, Khosla Ventures, Spark Capital, and True Ventures. The company is profitable off a premium subscription model. Bijan Sabet from Spark Capital writes "We believe open science is really important. We believe Academia.edu is going to have a profound impact on the world."
We are looking to hire full stack software engineers. Technologies we use include Ruby, Rails, Postgres, DynamoDB, React. Our office is in downtown San Francisco. For more information, visit http://academia.edu/hiring.
If you are interested to learn more, please email the CEO, Richard Price, at richard [at] academia.edu
Academia.edu | Full Stack Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Onsite
Academia.edu is addressing two problems:
- Open access. The goal here is to put every academic pdf ever written on the internet, available for free.
- Robustness. The goal here is to produce a set of signals around any given academic paper that indicate how robust the paper’s claims and findings are.
It has emerged over the last few years that 65-90% of the academic literature is not reproducible. What this means is that if you try to reproduce the experiments described in a paper, 65-90% of the time you will not get the same findings. This is known as "the reproducibility crisis”. Peer review is not a robustness filter; we need a separate filter to indicate robustness.
With regard to open access, Academia allows academics to upload papers to Academia, and make them freely available. Academics have uploaded about 19 million pdfs to Academia.edu. About 30 million people come to Academia each month to access and share papers.
With regard to robustness, we think the way to build a robustness layer on top of papers is a) to mine the existing graph of citations for commentary and (b) crowd-source commentary/peer review from the academic community.
Academia has built a recommendation system which is the basis of our approach to (b), and a citation graph infrastructure that is the basis of our approach to (a). We believe that addressing robustness is a challenge and an opportunity. We need mission-driven engineers to come and help us.
We have raised $33 million from Tencent, Khosla Ventures, Spark Capital, and True Ventures. The company is profitable off a premium subscription model. Bijan Sabet from Spark Capital writes "We believe open science is really important. We believe Academia.edu is going to have a profound impact on the world."
We are looking to hire full stack software engineers. Technologies we use include Ruby, Rails, Postgres, DynamoDB, React. Our office is in downtown San Francisco. For more information, visit http://academia.edu/hiring.
If you are interested to learn more, please email Richard Price at richard [at] academia.edu
Academia.edu | Full Stack Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Onsite
Academia.edu’s mission is to get every paper ever written on the internet, available for free.
Founded in 2008, Academia.edu is the leading online platform for academics worldwide. Over 59 million academics are Academia.edu members, and have added 20 million papers. Academia.edu attracts over 30 million unique visitors a month, and has raised more than $33 million from leading VC firms including Khosla Ventures, True Ventures, Spark Capital and Tencent. Our work has garnered favorable attention from trade and mainstream media including Fortune, Wired, EdTech, Venture Beat, San Francisco Business Times, The Economist, The Washington Post, TechCrunch, Scientific American and Forbes.
If you join Academia.edu, you'll be designing and building systems and services to make our user base more productive in their academic work life. You'll be working on such systems as:
- communications and messaging tools to facilitate collaboration and feedback
- a scalable peer review system to facilitate the verification of academic research
- a scalable news feed, highlighting the latest research in every field
- tools and platforms that enable academics to publish directly on the Academia social network
- advanced search products and personalized analytics
We need mission-driven engineers to come and help us. Bijan Sabet from Spark Capital writes "We believe open science is really important. We believe Academia.edu is going to have a profound impact on the world."
We’ve turned cash flow positive, we’re generating profit, and we expect our revenue to double in the next year. With a recent addition of capital from our VCs, we are widening and deepening our free and premium products this year. We’re moving to a larger space, while staying in downtown SF, near to all public transportation sites.
We are looking to hire full stack and mobile software engineers, as well as Product Managers. Technologies we use include Ruby, Rails, Postgres, DynamoDB, React. For more information, visit http://academia.edu/hiring. If you are interested to learn more, please email Richard Price at richard [at] academia.edu
About Academia.edu
Despite Covid-19, we had no layoffs, are private and profitable, and still growing. This is a great time to join us!
Life is short - do something that matters! Our mission is to accelerate research, which will change the world for the better.
Academia's platform has more than 150 million registered users (growing at over 150,000 per day), and has over 65 million unique visitors every month. We have over 280,000 paying premium subscribers, and our revenue has grown 50-60% YoY for the past 2-years.
Full Stack Engineers:
Must have:
* Strong Computer Science fundamentals; i.e. data structures, algorithms, system design, web architecture.
* Ability and willingness to learn and apply new languages and technologies quickly.
* Good coding and debugging habits.
* Analytical and problem solving skills.
Nice to have: We use: Ruby on Rails, React (to make our FE more responsive), RSpec and Jasmine for testing, PostgreSQL for data storage, Redis for in-memory data structures, Elasticsearch for our full-text search engine, Kafka for our publish-subscribe messaging, Neo4J for managing our email lists, all working with AWS, EC2 spot instances and autoscaling, and Ansible for configuration management.
Sr. Mobile Engineer - iOS: We are building entirely new iOS mobile apps for Academia. The codebase is brand new and done with Swift with a JSON REST API. Our mobile engineers will learn some basic backend development to enable them to create database migrations and API endpoints essentially making us “mobile full-stack”. We are taking our time to get the architecture and design patterns right, in order to build a high-quality product in lieu of taking shortcuts to rush to market.