Staff Software Engineer (SF)
Academia.edu
Software Engineering
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Friday, May 24, 2024
📍Work Tuesdays and Thursdays at our San Francisco office, and the rest Work From Home. Our San Francisco office is at 580 California Street, a few blocks from the Montgomery exit of BART and MUNI.
About Us
Our Mission Welcome to Academia.edu, where our mission is to accelerate and democratize the world's research, enhancing the speed of scientific discovery and technological progress for the benefit of everyone
Our Growth With a community of over 265 million registered users and 105 million monthly visitors, we are at the forefront of the research revolution. Our platform is rapidly expanding, with 3.5 million new users joining us each month. This consistent growth over the past 17 months is a testament to the value we provide to researchers and academics globally.
Our Impact More than 40% of the world’s faculty members use Academia.edu to share their work, collaborate with peers, and stay updated with the latest research. Our small but mighty team of 100 employees, including 46 talented engineers, drives our mission forward with innovation and dedication.
Our Success We are proud to be a profitable and thriving company, growing by 30% year-over-year. This financial stability allows us to continually improve our platform and expand our reach. We are on track to exceed $40 million in net revenue this year, a rare achievement in today's market.
Our Culture At Academia.edu, we foster a flexible and collaborative work environment. Our hybrid work model allows our team to balance in-person collaboration at our San Francisco office with the convenience of remote work. We believe in nurturing a supportive and inclusive culture where every team member can thrive and make a significant impact.
Join Us If you are passionate about making a difference in the world of research and want to be part of a dynamic, mission-driven team, Academia.edu is the place for you. Join us as we continue to revolutionize the way knowledge is shared and accessed, driving progress and innovation across the globe.
What we're looking for
Our ideal candidates have experience working full stack and are excited about owning product and engineering initiatives. Experience scaling web applications with an increasing user base into the millions is desirable.
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
What you'll get:
- We are a work/life balance organization.
- Our employee-focused benefits program includes:
- 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees that covers their spouses and dependents.
- Generous Paid Time Off includes 21 paid vacation days, 12 paid company holidays, 1 volunteer day, and many other PTO leaves.
- Annual professional development allowance & PTO.Work/Life balance with flex hours.
- Unlimited sick days.WFH monthly Internet stipend.
- New hardware and accessories for WFH productivity setup.
- Commuter benefits.
- Book stipend.
- Competitive compensation and Stock options.
- Parental & birth parent leave - 8 fully paid weeks each for a total of 16 weeks for the birth parent.
- 6-week paid sabbatical after 4 years of employment.
- FSA accounts.
- Catered lunches
- Company-paid retreats.
- 401K plan.
In addition, for those who work at our office, located near MUNI & BART in the beautiful downtown San Francisco - Financial District. The office has snacks and drinks, and we cater lunches on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Diversity and Inclusion
Academia is a proud equal opportunity employer committed to hiring and supporting a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Compensation
The total cash compensation for this role is targeted at $186,000 to $237,500 USD for the first year. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.