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by ashleyjohn 4306 days ago
Academia.edu (Downtown San Francisco)

Full Time Openings:

* Full Stack Engineers

* Sr. Front End Developer

Company:

* Our mission is to build a new system for scientists to share their results and broadcast their work

* We have over 12 million users and they are extremely important to us!

* Our investors include Khosla Ventures, Spark Capital and True Ventures

Team:

* We move quickly, everyone is in charge of their own projects but also very collaborative

* We get catered lunches from zerocater and lunch usually ends with a round of foosball

* We're a diverse group with backgrounds in philosophy, biology, music and art

Technical:

* Peer Review: We are revisiting peer review with a novel product built from the ground up that will allow layers of discussion on top of a single document and we are building this using Rails and Backbone.js

About you:

- You want to have a huge impact on a product that is making a positive impact on the world

- You have a curious mind and enjoy tackling hard technical problems

- You work best when given a lot of autonomy

- You enjoy board games, foosball, rock climbing, sailing, roundtable discussions and/or free lunches

Please contact ashley@academia.edu if you would like to apply or if you have any questions.