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by jdleesmiller 1991 days ago
Overleaf (https://www.overleaf.com) | REMOTE | Full-time | Back End Developers

Overleaf builds modern collaborative authoring tools for scientists --- like Google Docs for Science. We have over six million registered users from around the world. Our primary product is an online, real-time collaborative editor for papers, theses, technical reports and other documents written in the LaTeX markup language.

We acquired ShareLaTeX in 2017 and have since merged the two platforms.

We plan to add two developers to our team, both with a back end focus. Ideally, we'd like to find one developer with web analytics and data pipeline experience and one who would be interested in a team lead role in the future.

Our stack currently includes Node.js, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, Angular.js (going away), React and a some Ruby on Rails.

Some reasons you'd enjoy working with us:

- Most of our code is open-source and we're big fans of Free Software.

- Working hours can be flexible to your needs. Our core hours are 2pm--5pm UK time. Applicants in the US, Canada and UK/EU are preferred.

- We're agile (with a lowercase a). We test thoroughly (unit and acceptance), we have a CI build process, a full staging environment to play with, and we automate as much as possible.

- Remote is a first class citizen; even before the pandemic, all founders and employees worked remotely. When we can do so again, we'll get everyone together in London a few times a year for valuable face to face time.

Please see https://apply.workable.com/j/77FA8361E4 for more information and how to apply.

2 comments

Hi John,

Nothing to do with the two positions, but have you ever considered a markdown editor? My pipeline is markdown -> pandoc+filters -> latex, so nowadays I only use Overleaf when the papers (or the coauthors) really demands it.

You might like to have a look at the markdown package [1], which lets you write markdown in LaTeX documents. In fact, we drafted this job ad in markdown on Overleaf using that package! (That said, there's certainly more we could do to improve the markdown experience on Overleaf.)

[1] https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Articles/How_to_write_i...

Some kind of pandoc-based extra input method would be a brilliant feature for other formats though. I'm an editor for a journal where we currently convert all our docx's into tex via our WordPress admin panel (which pre and post processes them using sed) and then drop them into Overleaf. If it could all be integrated into Overleaf that would be another killer feature.
Thanks, agree! More import options are definitely on our radar.

Edit: the latest TeX User Group (TUG) had a good talk about this sort of workflow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9uZJFO54iM

Overleaf alumni here. Can confirm it's a really nice place to work. If you are doubting just go ahead an apply :)