We're Hiring

Academia.edu is disrupting the $10B 100-year old scientific publishing industry, accelerating the speed by which papers are peer reviewed and published. The site was launched in 2008 and as of March 2015 had over 20.4M registered users, with over 30M UVM who've uploaded over 5M articles. We're growing at over 60,000 new registrations per day.

We are 18-people strong and we're located 2 blocks from the Montgomery BART station in downtown.

Please watch my latest video, which explains why; it only takes 3:41. https://youtu.be/T4qLThgrTxE.

We are seeking engineers who can handle the full stack, from PostgreSQL up to Javascript, and who are eager to tackle the challenges of rapidly scaling a Rails app on Amazon Web Services.

What we're looking for:

You should have experience working with the full stack of a web application. Engineers should be capable of handling sysadmin tasks, optimizing database queries, writing app code, and implementing CSS, HTML, and JavaScript on the front end.

Bonus points for experience scaling an application to handle an increasing user base. Familiarity with our current tools is a plus, but it's much more important that you be a fast learner who can pick up new technologies quickly.

• Ruby on Rails
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• Elasticsearch
• Memcached
• NginX
• AWS

Academia.edu is disrupting the $10B 100-year old scientific publishing industry, accelerating the speed by which papers are peer reviewed and published. The site was launched in 2008 and as of March 2015 had over 20.4M registered users, with over 30M UVM who've uploaded over 5M articles. We're growing at over 60,000 new registrations per day.

You will be a critical part of our product development. Using your advanced knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, and HTML, you will architect, develop, iterate, and evangelize our frontend system. Your team will collaborate with designers and product managers to deliver beautiful experiences used by millions of researchers around the world.

• Advanced experience with JavaScript, CSS, and HTML at scale.
• Experience with MVC web frameworks such as Rails and Django.
• Experience with Backbone, Ember, or Angular.
• You’re comfortable collecting and analyzing data to improve user experiences.
• You have a bias towards action.
• You’ve shown good judgement in the past when faced with difficult trade offs. You believe that speed and quality can be achieved concurrently.
• You maintain a long term vision while delivering short term impact.
• You lead by example. Tough problems motivate you to identify and share a solution.
• You’re a teacher. You’re always seeking and sharing knowledge that will empower your team to build world class products.

• Single page application development
• OOCSS
• You’ve built or extended a UI framework
• D3.js or other data visualization technologies
• React.js
• CoffeeScript
• Utilization of advanced SASS features
• Selenium

Academia.edu is disrupting the $10B 100-year old scientific publishing industry, accelerating the speed by which papers are peer reviewed and published. The site was launched in 2008 and as of March 2015 has over 20.4M registered users, with over 30M UVM who've uploaded over 5M articles. We're growing at over 60,000 new registrations per day.

We are 18-people strong and we're located 2 blocks from the Montgomery BART station in downtown.

Watch a video introduction from Stuart Liroff, our VP of Talent https://youtu.be/T4qLThgrTxE.

• Architect and build high-scale infrastructure for a rapidly growing web application.
• Scale the newsfeed infrastructure and add deep social-graph relevance capabilities to support over 60M registered users.
• Build specialized data-layer services for data-intensive parts of the system.
• Build highly optimized sub-systems for the most performance-critical parts of the application.
• Build deployment management tools for automated scaling on AWS.

Academia.edu is disrupting the $10B 100-year old scientific publishing industry, accelerating the speed by which papers are peer reviewed and published. The site was launched in 2008 and as of March 2015 had over 20.4M registered users, with over 30M UVM who've uploaded over 5M articles. We're growing at over 60,000 new registrations per day.

We are 18-people strong and we're located 2 blocks from the Montgomery BART station in downtown.

Watch a video introduction from Stuart Liroff, our VP of Talent: https://youtu.be/T4qLThgrTxE.

• Do follow-up work on the Citation Advantage study, and initiate other similar studies, to investigate the impact of Academia.edu on the careers of researcher and the pace of research, creating publishable results.
• Analyses on internal growth and engagement metrics, with the aim of discovering changes that will improve the product and the user experience.
• Develop algorithms for future product initiatives. A couple of examples: a relevance model for papers, ways of detecting trending papers.

• Deep understanding of statistical analysis
• Fluency with statistical programming languages or frameworks, such as R or pandas
• SQL
• Comfortable writing scripts to accomplish simple data manipulation, execute remote queries, and automate the data analysis workflow

Academia.edu is disrupting the $10B 100-year old scientific publishing industry, accelerating the speed by which papers are peer reviewed and published. The site was launched in 2008 and as of March 2015 had over 20.4M registered users, with over 30M UVM who've uploaded over 5M articles. We're growing at over 60,000 new registrations per day.

We're building an Open Science platform to bring the world's research online and available to all for free. We’re seeking intuitive Product Designers who can see beyond our current execution. Product Design will be instrumental in shaping the future of our product and company.

You’ll work directly with the CEO and VP of Product to create features from concept to execution. You'll also collaborate with our talented team of 12 Engineers to build features for our community of over 20M researchers.

Watch a video introduction from Stuart Liroff, our VP of Talent: https://youtu.be/T4qLThgrTxE.

• Conceptualize and define product strategies with our CEO & VP of Product
• Shape our Product Development process by developing and maintaining visual and experience design standards
• Elevate the existing product by creating interaction flows, beautiful interfaces, and our UI Kit
• Work on an exciting private beta feature that is changing the way academics discuss research
• Receive & provide design criticism
• Qualitatively and quantitatively test features with our Engineering team

• An online portfolio that illustrates your professional experience designing web applications
• Visual & experience design expertise
• A mastery of UI design tools such as Photoshop or Sketch
• The ability to apply your knowledge to solving extremely difficult UI challenges for millions of users
• A desire to take advantage of our unlimited budget for professional development by contantly learning and growing

• Front-end development experience. HTML & CSS would be great for prototyping. JavaScript experience would be amazing. Back-end experience would drop our jaws.
• Management or hiring experience. You’ll be one of our first designers so being able to grow and lead a team would make you the ultimate unicorn.
• Mobile design experience.

If this interests you, please ping us and tell us about yourself.

Academia.edu is disrupting the $10B 100-year old scientific publishing industry, accelerating the speed by which papers are peer reviewed and published. The site was launched in 2008 and as of March 2015 had over 20.4M registered users, with over 30M UVM who've uploaded over 5M articles. We're growing at over 60,000 new registrations per day.

We are 18-people strong and we're located 2 blocks from the Montgomery BART station in downtown.

Watch a video introduction from Stuart Liroff, our VP of Talent: https://youtu.be/T4qLThgrTxE.

I'm one of the top technical recruiters in SV. I've joined Academia.edu, an early stage startup, as VP of Talent.

I need a great sourcer to work with me. I'd love to teach/train someone if you're motivated and at the same time willing/capable to deal with adversity and failure.

Honestly, I work in a 4 out of 1000 business. Sometimes, it gets to 7 out of 1000; but rarely higher. If finding candidates who are 3 sigma (3- standard deviations) excites you, then give me a call and tell me why.

Academia.edu is disrupting the $10B 100-year old scientific publishing industry, accelerating the speed by which papers are peer reviewed and published. The site was launched in 2008 and as of June 2015 had over 22M registered users, with over 30M UVM who've uploaded over 5M articles. We're growing at over 60,000 new registrations per day, and we expect our user count to explode to over 60M registered users in the next 12-18 months.

We are 18-people strong and we're located 2 blocks from the Montgomery BART station in downtown.

Watch a video introduction from Stuart Liroff, our VP of Talent: https://youtu.be/T4qLThgrTxE.

• Work directly with users to resolve their support needs
• Advocate for our user community at engineering and product team meetings, including bug prioritization
• Own and manage the support knowledge-base
• Design and implement special support and user happiness projects
• This is a 3-month full-time contract position with the possibility of becoming a full-time position based on individual and company growth

• College degree or equivalent experience
• Strong and precise writing skills
• Confidence working on your own
• Ability to think strategically about feature requests and bugs
• Love of empty inboxes and happy customers

• Prior experience with Desk.com or technical support
• Prior experience troubleshooting technical problems