Senior Full-stack Software Engineer (San Francisco Bay Area)
July 15, 2023
Ansible
AWS
EC2
ElasticSearch
Go
JavaScript
Jenkins
Jest
Node.js
Python
React
Redis
RSpec
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Terraform
TypeScript
Unix
Description
• We are Academia.edu, building the world's largest network for sharing and finding academic research online. • Our mission is to accelerate and democratize the world's research. • We have over 228M registered users and nearly half of the world's academics using our platform monthly. • You'll be designing and building systems and web applications to make our user base more productive on our platform. • Examples of projects include developing a fast and scalable peer review system, services for understanding the impact of academic scholarship, algorithmic approaches to identification of academic content, and a paper recommendation engine. • Our tech stack includes Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, React, Typescript, RSpec, Chromatic, Jest, Storybook, CircleCI, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, Datadog, and the AWS ecosystem. • You don't need to know our tech stack, but you must be willing and able to learn and apply it quickly.
Requirements
• 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. • 5+yrs. of experience working on large-scale, consumer-facing web apps or platforms in a Unix/Linux environment. • Professional level of proficiency with one of the following: Ruby, Python, or Node.js+Javascript or Node.js+Typescript. • Must be willing to learn/work with Ruby on Rails stack. • Understanding, creating, manipulating, and querying databases. • Rest API/back-end coding in a scripting language. • Web Front-end coding experience, e.g. JavaScript/Typescript, React.js, a plus.
Benefits
• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees that covers their spouses and dependents. • A generous Paid Time Off includes 21 paid vacation days, 12 paid company holidays, 1 volunteer day and many other PTO leaves as well. • Annual professional development allowance & PTO. • Book stipend. • Stock options. • Flexible sick days. • Parental & birth parent leave - 8 fully paid weeks each. • Fully paid 6-week sabbatical after 4 years of employment. • Work/Life balance with flex hours. • Weekly Bootcamp & yoga class. • FSA accounts. • Catered lunches. • Company-paid retreats. • Commuter benefits. • WFH monthly Internet stipend. • New hardware and accessories for WFH productivity setup. • 401K plan.
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