Job at academia.edu
Academia.edu is looking to hire a software engineer
About Academia.edu
Academia.edu helps academics answer the question ‘who’s researching what?’. It applies to any research area: you can type in ‘thermophilic organisms’, or one of 12,420 other research interests, and find out who is working in that area worldwide, as well as what they are working on – the latest papers, conferences, blog posts, status updates etc.
Our vision is for any researcher to be able to find out with one click the latest research that is going on in their area. We are firm believers that a research platform as powerful as this will exist in 5 years’ time, and we want to be the ones to build it. The goal is to impact people’s research lives as much as Facebook has impacted people’s social lives.
Academia.edu was founded by Richard Price. Richard did a Ph.D in philosophy at Oxford, and won the All Souls Prize fellowship there, awarded to two people a year. Richard previously founded www.peopleradar.com, which was the largest application on the Facebook API 1.0 for 8 months, and www.liveout.co.uk, a student rental site in Oxford. The other two members of the team are Ben Lund, CTO, and Jarques Pretorius, Lead Designer. More details about the team are on http://academia.edu/jobs.
Academia.edu launched 12 months ago, and is now one of the largest online communities of researchers in the world; we now have 63,900 profiles, and are growing by about 5,000 profiles a month. We have about 280,000 unique monthly visitors.
We are looking for an exceptional software engineer to join our team. Academia.edu has a very engineer-driven culture. We describe below how we think about our culture, and also the qualities of the person we want to join us.
Professional qualities – you are:
* A very talented engineer: you are able to innovate at the cutting edge of web development to overcome the complex challenges that can arise.
* Product and user experience focused: you are obsessed with creating a great product, and a great user experience. You feel anguish and pain when your site is slow, or when your user interface or feature is bad, and you feel pleasure when the site is fast and intuitive.
* A problem solver: you derive huge intellectual satisfaction from solving problems. You are always focused on finding the best and quickest solution to the problem you are working on.
* Technically ambitious: you are the kind of person who enjoys pushing the boundaries of the technologies you work with. For example, when thinking about the best UI for a feature, you would have no fear in considering creating a new JavaScript framework, if that is what is required to make it work right.
* A finisher: you care about finishing products and deploying code. You understand that exceptional engineering, combined with exceptional creativity, are what makes a startup succeed.
* Versatile: you are comfortable tweaking a CSS style or optimizing a SQL query all in the same morning
* Able to prioritize features: you can look at a ton of possible features on a whiteboard, be able to add your own ideas to the mix, and then intelligently choose which one has the highest priority
* Thoughtful about productivity: you think about what working environments and structures make you optimally productive. You try to ensure that the right environment and structures are in place for you.
* Dedicated: you are willing to get up at 4am to restart the servers, and then build something the next day so the servers don’t go down again
* Personally invested in what you work on: you care personally about the impact of your work on people around the world
For the full job requirements, please visit the job description at http://academia.edu/jobs/software_engineer
The job is based in San Francisco. On offer is a market salary and stock options. We want to hire someone exceptional, and will be generous with stock options to make this happen. In addition, you will also get health insurance, any ergonomic chair of your choosing, a laptop with two huge monitors, and a smartphone with monthly bills paid.
If you are interested to learn more, please email Richard Price at richard@academia.edu.
About Academia.edu
Academia.edu helps academics answer the question ‘who’s researching what?’. It applies to any research area: you can type in ‘thermophilic organisms’, or one of 12,420 other research interests, and find out who is working in that area worldwide, as well as what they are working on – the latest papers, conferences, blog posts, status updates etc.
Our vision is for any researcher to be able to find out with one click the latest research that is going on in their area. We are firm believers that a research platform as powerful as this will exist in 5 years’ time, and we want to be the ones to build it. The goal is to impact people’s research lives as much as Facebook has impacted people’s social lives.
Academia.edu was founded by Richard Price. Richard did a Ph.D in philosophy at Oxford, and won the All Souls Prize fellowship there, awarded to two people a year. Richard previously founded www.peopleradar.com, which was the largest application on the Facebook API 1.0 for 8 months, and www.liveout.co.uk, a student rental site in Oxford. The other two members of the team are Ben Lund, CTO, and Jarques Pretorius, Lead Designer. More details about the team are on http://academia.edu/jobs.
Academia.edu launched 12 months ago, and is now one of the largest online communities of researchers in the world; we now have 63,900 profiles, and are growing by about 5,000 profiles a month. We have about 280,000 unique monthly visitors.
We are looking for an exceptional software engineer to join our team. Academia.edu has a very engineer-driven culture. We describe below how we think about our culture, and also the qualities of the person we want to join us.
Professional qualities – you are:
* A very talented engineer: you are able to innovate at the cutting edge of web development to overcome the complex challenges that can arise.
* Product and user experience focused: you are obsessed with creating a great product, and a great user experience. You feel anguish and pain when your site is slow, or when your user interface or feature is bad, and you feel pleasure when the site is fast and intuitive.
* A problem solver: you derive huge intellectual satisfaction from solving problems. You are always focused on finding the best and quickest solution to the problem you are working on.
* Technically ambitious: you are the kind of person who enjoys pushing the boundaries of the technologies you work with. For example, when thinking about the best UI for a feature, you would have no fear in considering creating a new JavaScript framework, if that is what is required to make it work right.
* A finisher: you care about finishing products and deploying code. You understand that exceptional engineering, combined with exceptional creativity, are what makes a startup succeed.
* Versatile: you are comfortable tweaking a CSS style or optimizing a SQL query all in the same morning
* Able to prioritize features: you can look at a ton of possible features on a whiteboard, be able to add your own ideas to the mix, and then intelligently choose which one has the highest priority
* Thoughtful about productivity: you think about what working environments and structures make you optimally productive. You try to ensure that the right environment and structures are in place for you.
* Dedicated: you are willing to get up at 4am to restart the servers, and then build something the next day so the servers don’t go down again
* Personally invested in what you work on: you care personally about the impact of your work on people around the world
For the full job requirements, please visit the job description at http://academia.edu/jobs/software_engineer
The job is based in San Francisco. On offer is a market salary and stock options. We want to hire someone exceptional, and will be generous with stock options to make this happen. In addition, you will also get health insurance, any ergonomic chair of your choosing, a laptop with two huge monitors, and a smartphone with monthly bills paid.
If you are interested to learn more, please email Richard Price at richard@academia.edu.
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