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Academia.edu is accelerating the pace of scientific research. Academia’s strategy is to fix the broken 100-year old monopolistic academic publishing system by becoming the largest academic publisher in the world, which is a $10 billion market, and making access to all the world's research free while doing it.

Academia.edu is well funded. We're about to close a Series "C" round and it is 2.5X higher valuation than our previous round. We have plenty of cash in the bank, and we're building revenue with our rapidly growing premium product. We expect to also build revenue with a new publishing product.

Here's a great article and video about Academia... http://alicebonasio.com/edtech-world-tour/sharing-knowledge-beyond-the-ivory-tower/

At Academia, DevOps is core to what we do. We maintain hundreds of machines in dozens of configurations, so automation is essential. We're not afraid to roll out new products that require new resources - and our developers are already involved in making that happen. We aggressively monitor and upgrade our environment. DevOps at Academia is constantly elimination redundancies, improving stability and reducing costs while increasing capability.

And we believe treating infrastructure as code (using tools like Ansible) helps make operations a seamless fabric.

The ideal candidate has strong familiarity with AWS and EC2, and has experience or would be excited working with our technology stack: We use Ruby on Rails, RSpec, Postgres, Nginx, Redis, Elasticsearch, Neo4j, Sidekiq, Sensu, Redshift, Kafka, and React on AWS. But don't worry - if you're unfamiliar with parts of our stack, that's not a problem as long as you're hungry to learn.

Your work impact will be measured in millions - of sessions per day, of scholars who use the system, of papers we make available. You'll be helping people around the world to learn and disseminate their knowledge.

Academia offers competitive pay and stock options. We offer top notch medical, dental and vision. We offer a commute benefit. We cater our lunch everyday, and our kitchen is fully stocked with your needs/desires. We offer a generous time off policy (21-days FTO + 10 paid holidays). We have a full barista table for you to make the coffee you prefer, or tea if you like.

We're interested in your abilities as a software engineer, working on a large and complex system. You will be given the opportunity to meet most of the engineers on our team, plus the CTO and the CEO. Conversations will range from personal interests, to your resume background. We want to understand your problem-solving skills and your ability to write structured, scalable, production level code and work with technologies you might not have seen before.

Are you aware of how inefficient, inaccurate, slow, and costly, scientific publishing is? Imagine a world where scientific experiments can be peer reviewed and published with an order of magnitude more speed and efficiency.

Academia’s strategy is to fix this broken 100-year old monopolistic system by becoming the largest academic publisher in the world, which is a $10 billion market. We are already the world’s largest academic distribution platform, by users and traffic (10% of the world’s Internet traffic visited our site last year). Now, we’re building and scaling out a modern peer review system, which will turn our distribution platform into a publishing platform.

We're a team of 10 engineers (24 employees total) building an Open Science platform to bring the world's research online, available to all, for free. With over 39M registered users and growing at 10% per month, we're looking to reach to 60M registered within the next year. We're currently working on products which accelerate the speed of peer review and publication.

We're 3 blocks from the Montgomery BART station.

Watch a video introduction from Stuart Liroff, our VP of Talent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4qLThgrTxE&feature=youtu.be

* I like the culture and the team.  Decisions are data driven.  Lunch is served every day.  A regular foosball game is played amongst the diehard regulars.  There are a few chess players and several rock climbers and many hikers.  The CEO and the CTO are humanistic and thoughtful as well as fantastic business people.  

 

* Top Tier investors.  Khosla Ventures (Ben Ling, Keith Rabois), Spark Capital (Bijan Sabet) and True Ventures (Om Malik).  

Are you aware of how inefficient, inaccurate, slow, and costly, scientific publishing is? Imagine a world where scientific experiments can be peer reviewed and published with an order of magnitude more speed and efficiency.

Academia’s strategy is to fix this broken 100-year old monopolistic system by becoming the largest academic publisher in the world, which is a $10 billion market. We are already the world’s largest academic distribution platform, by users and traffic (10% of the world’s Internet traffic visited our site last year). Now, we’re building and scaling out a modern peer review system, which will turn our distribution platform into a publishing platform.

We've recently closed a Series "C" round and it is 2X higher valuation than our previous round. We have plenty of cash in the bank and are working on both viral growth and converting power users from our freemium to our premium product features. We're a team of 20 people, with 15 in engineering.

We're 3 blocks from the Montgomery BART station.

Academia is seeking a distributed systems engineer to join our team.

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

Academia.edu is accelerating the pace of scientific research. Academia’s strategy is to fix the broken 100-year old monopolistic academic publishing system by becoming the largest academic publisher in the world, which is a $10 billion market.

We've recently closed a Series "C" round and it is 2X higher valuation than our previous round. We have plenty of cash in the bank and are working on both viral growth and converting power users from our freemium to our premium product features. We're a team of 19 people, with 13 in engineering.

Here's a great article and video about Academia... http://alicebonasio.com/edtech-world-tour/sharing-knowledge-beyond-the-ivory-tower/.

Academia's platform has scaled to over 42M registered users, increasing by 8%/mo, and over 6M monthly active users. 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 identification & wide-scale distribution of high quality academic research.

* tools and platforms that enable academics to publish directly on the Academia social network.

* advanced search products and impact metrics.

Your work will impact millions of scholars, making knowledge more accessible and fostering discussion among scholars.

You should have experience working with the full stack of a web application. You are excited about and understand front end and robust app server architecture, and scalable backend design.

Bonus points for experience scaling an application to handle an increasing user base or having the ambition to put your scaling ideas into practice. 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.

Academia offers competitive pay and stock options. We offer top notch medical, dental and vision. We offer a commute benefit. We cater our lunch everyday, and our kitchens are fully stocked with your needs/desires. We offer a generous time off policy (21-days FTO + 10 paid holidays). We have a full barista table for you to make the coffee you prefer, or tea if you like.

At Academia, we believe in strong computer science fundamentals. If you're unfamiliar with parts of our stack, that's not a problem as long as your hungry to learn. We're more interested in your abilities as a software engineer. You will be given the opportunity to meet most of the engineers on our team, plus the CTO and the CEO. Conversations will range from personal interests, to your resume background. We want to understand your problem-solving skills and your ability to write structured, scalable, production level code. During the interview process, you'll give given a logic problem and you'll be asked to write code to solve the problem. We view this as a discussion, and we're more interested in the way you think rather than that you got the right answer.

Are you aware of how inefficient, inaccurate, slow, and costly, scientific publishing is? Imagine a world where scientific experiments can be peer reviewed and published with an order of magnitude more speed and efficiency.

We are already the world’s largest academic distribution platform, by users and traffic (10% of the world’s Internet traffic visited our site last year). Now, we’re building and scaling out a modern peer review system, which will turn our distribution platform into a publishing platform.

We're a team of 10 engineers (22 employees total) building an Open Science platform to bring the world's research online, available to all, for free. With over 39M registered users and growing at 10% per month, we're looking to reach to 60M registered users within the next year. We're currently working on products which accelerate the speed of peer review and publication.

 

We're 3 blocks from the Montgomery BART station.

Academia.edu is accelerating the pace of scientific research. Academia’s strategy is to fix the broken 100-year old monopolistic academic publishing system by becoming the largest academic publisher in the world, which is a $10 billion market.

We've recently closed a Series "C" round and it is 2X higher valuation than our previous round. We have plenty of cash in the bank and are working on both viral growth and converting power users from our freemium to our premium product features. We're a team of 20 people, with 15 in engineering.

Here's a great article and video about Academia... http://alicebonasio.com/edtech-world-tour/sharing-knowledge-beyond-the-ivory-tower/.

We're 3 blocks from the Montgomery BART station. Watch a video introduction from Stuart Liroff, our VP of Talent: https://youtu.be/T4qLThgrTxE

Academia is seeking a UI engineer to join our team.

Academia's platform scales to over 41M registered and over 5M monthly active users. 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 identification & wide-scale distribution of high quality academic research.

* tools and platforms that enable academics to publish directly on the Academia social network.

* advanced search products and impact metrics.

Your work will impact millions of scholars, making knowledge more accessible and fostering discussion among scholars.

We're looking for someone who has love and passion for the front end of a web application.

Academia offers competitive pay and stock options. We offer top notch medical, dental and vision. We offer a commute benefit. We cater our lunch everyday, and our kitchens are fully stocked with your needs/desires. We offer a generous time off policy (21-days FTO + 10 paid holidays). We have a full barista table for you to make the coffee you prefer, or tea if you like.

You will be given a problem and asked to code it using your favorite language. It will not be a computer science oriented problem; rather, it'll be a real world front end coding problem.

Are you aware of how inefficient, inaccurate, slow, and costly, scientific publishing is? Imagine a world where scientific experiments can be peer reviewed and published with an order of magnitude more speed and efficiency.

We are already the world’s largest academic distribution platform, by users and traffic (10% of the world’s Internet traffic visited our site last year). Now, we’re building and scaling out a modern peer review system, which will turn our distribution platform into a publishing platform.

We're a team of 10 engineers (22 employees total) building an Open Science platform to bring the world's research online, available to all, for free. With over 39M registered users and growing at 10% per month, we're looking to reach to 60M registered users within the next year. We're currently working on products which accelerate the speed of peer review and publication.

 

We're 3 blocks from the Montgomery BART station.

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.