San Francisco, CA
Academia.edu is hiring engineers.
Academia.edu is a platform for academics to connect and share research. On Academia.edu, academics can upload their papers, tag them with research interests, and distribute them instantly to the News Feeds of everyone following those research interests. On the flip side of this, academics see in their News Feeds in real time all papers that have been uploaded to the site in their research areas.
The platform is speeding up the distribution of papers amongst researchers around the world. The goal is for papers to be distributed as quickly within research communities around the world as photos are distributed within friend groups on Facebook.
Amongst other technologies, we work with Rails, Redis, MongoDB, Beanstalkd, Varnish, Solr, PostgreSQL, Node.js and Memcached. We currently have 1.9 million unique monthly visitors, and have doubled in traffic in the last 6 months. We like to hire people who:
* love engineering and building great products
* are intellectually inquisitive and think that speeding up research is a problem worth solving
* are fun and friendly
We're very happy to handle the H1B application process for foreign applicants. More information about the team, and about how we think about software engineering and product development, is here <a href="http://academia.edu/hiring" >http://academia.edu/hiring</a>. Feel free to email me directly at richard [at] academia.edu
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