Full Stack Engineer

SciSpace (Formerly Typeset) is the world's largest platform for researchers to create, collaborate and publish their research. Used by millions of researchers across 91 countries from organizations such as MIT, Stanford, CERN, NASA, and the like, including Nobel Laureates. Other solutions provided by SciSpace cater to various scholarly content creation(B2C), publication (B2B publishers), and dissemination (B2B universities) needs. (Featured in Forbes, Nasdaq, and Entrepreneur magazine.

SciSpace is a series-funded startup. We have raised 4.5 million USD to date, with the most recent fundraise in October 2021 from US-based VC firms. We have expanded our product portfolio with the launch of “SciSpace” - the world’s largest social platform for Research - hosting 200M+ publications and 50M+ profiles. Think of it like medium.com for hosting and discovering academic papers. We are looking for insatiably curious, always learning SDE 2 Fullstack Engineer. You could get a chance to work on the most important and challenging problems at scale.

Responsibilities

• Work in managing products as part of SciSpace product suite.
• Partner with product owners in designing software that becomes part of researchers’ lives
• Model real-world scenarios into code that can build the SciSpace platform
• Test code that you write and continuously improve practices at SciSpace
• Arrive at technology decisions after extensive debates with other engineers
• Manage large projects from conceptualization, all the way through deployments
• Evolve and ecosystem of tools and libraries that make it possible for SciSpace to provide reliable, always-on, performant services to our users
• Partner with other engineers in developing an architecture that is resilient to changes in product requirements and usage
• Work on the user-interface side and deliver a snappy, enjoyable experience to your users

Our Ideal Candidate would:

• Strong grasp of one high-level language like Python, Javascript, etc.
• Strong grasp of front-end HTML/CSS, non-trivial browser-side javascript
• General awareness of SQL and database design concepts
• Solid understanding of testing fundamentals
• Strong communication skills
• should have prior experience in managing and executing technology products.

Bonus

• Prior experience working with high-volume, always-available web-applications
• Experience in ElasticSearch.
• Experience in Distributed systems.
• Experience working with Start-up is a plus point.

Sample Projects Typeset Dissemination Suite (TDS) is a vital part of Typeset's product suite. TDS provides a platform to publishers and universities, who wish to make their research visible and accessible to the global research community. TDS hosts hundreds of thousands of interconnected and semantically-tagged, articles, and would be increasing to millions of research article in a short-span of time.

Due to the huge volume of data being processed via TDS, prior experience of writing preformant code for large datasets would be highly valuable. Experience with Django, Flask, Elasticsearch, MySQL, Mongo, Celery, Nuxt, etc would be beneficial.