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Software Engineers

We are looking for exceptional software engineers to join our team.

Academia.edu is a growing social network with a user base of 993,353 researchers. We need engineers who can handle the full stack, from PostgreSQL up to Javascript, and are eager to tackle the challenges of rapidly scaling a Rails app on Amazon Web Services.

What we're looking for

• We'd like you to have 2+ years of web development experience.
• You should have experience working with the full stack of a web application. Engineers should be capable of handling sysadmin tasks, optimizing database queries, writing app code, and implementing CSS, HTML, and JavaScript on the front end.
• Bonus points for experience scaling an application to handle an increasing user base.

Familiarity with our current tools is a plus, but it's much more important that you be a fast learner who can pick up new technologies quickly.

Technologies we use

Applying

Please email Richard Price at with your résumé and a brief cover letter.

To make your application stand out, you can sign up to Academia.edu and let us know what you think of the site. What's good and bad about the user experience? Which features do you like, and what features do you think are missing?

We're also looking for developer interns.