We're Hiring

Academia is looking for a Full-Stack Software Engineer to join our team!

Our ideal candidates are not only great at what they do, but they also make a meaningful impact on our mission. You should have experience working with the full stack of a web application. You are excited about and understand front end and robust app server architecture, and scalable backend design.

Bonus points for experience scaling an application to handle an increasing user base or having the ambition to put your scaling ideas into practice. 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.

Academia’s mission is to make every academic paper published available for free.

* communications and messaging tools to facilitate collaboration and feedback

* an engaging and scalable peer review system to facilitate the identification & wide-scale distribution of high quality academic research

* A scalable newsfeed, highlighting the latest research in every field

* tools and platforms that enable academics to publish directly on the Academia social network

* advanced search products and personalized analytics

Your work will impact millions of scholars, making knowledge more accessible and fostering discussion among scholars.

In addition to finding great talent for our tight-knit team, we value fostering employee growth. Our >46-person team values curiosity, initiative, teamwork, and we are passionate about building great products. We have an employee-focused benefits program that includes top notch health, dental, and vision insurance, a generous time off policy (21-days paid vacation, 11 federal holidays, and unlimited sick days), stock options, catered lunch, a stocked kitchen, and a book stipend. We’re located near MUNI & BART in beautiful downtown San Francisco.

At Academia, we believe in strong computer science fundamentals. If you're unfamiliar with parts of our stack, that's not a problem as long as you're hungry to learn. We're more interested in your abilities as a software engineer. You will be given the opportunity to meet most of the engineers on our team, plus the CTO and the CEO. Conversations will range from personal interests, to your resume background. We want to understand your problem-solving skills and your ability to write structured, scalable, production level code. During the interview process, you'll be given a logic problem and you'll be asked to write code to solve the problem. We view this as a discussion, and we're more interested in the way you think rather than that you got the right answer.

Academia is building a new distribution and peer review platform for the world's academic research.  Guided by a mission to accelerate the world’s research, Academia aims to make every academic paper ever published available for free online and accessible by anyone in the world.

Academia has built a network of Academics around the world who access our platform on the web and a native mobile app to discover new research, collaborate, recommend and peer review papers, and gather feedback on draft research by participating in real-time collaborative sessions.  Academia’s platform has registered more than 100 million users (growing at over 150,000 per day), has over 70 million unique visitors every month, including over 19M logged-in monthly active users (MAU). We have over 150,000 paying premium subscribers, which has contributed to a doubling in revenue for both of the last two years.

Academia has attracted $34 million in investment from leading VC firms including Khosla Ventures, True Ventures, Spark Capital, and Tencent. Our work has garnered favorable attention from trade and mainstream media including UK Times, Fortune, Wired, EdTech, Venture Beat, San Francisco Business Times, The Economist, The Washington Post, TechCrunch, Scientific American, and Forbes.

Academia is a proud equal opportunity employer and we are committed to hiring and supporting a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Academia is seeking an experienced Senior Front-End Engineer who is excited to use their deep understanding of web technologies to improve the academia.edu website. In this role, you'll use your mastery of Javascript, HTML and CSS to lead engineering efforts that focus on usability, re-usability, performance and accessibility. You'll work with a cross-functional team to launch new features and campaigns.

Academia is building a new Open Science distribution and peer review platform for Academic papers.  Guided by a mission to accelerate the world’s research, Academia aims to make every academic paper ever published available for free online and accessible by anyone in the world. Academia has become the world's leading software platform for reading academic papers.

Academia has attracted $34 million in investment from leading VC firms including Khosla Ventures, True Ventures, Spark Capital, and Tencent. Our work has garnered favorable attention from trade and mainstream media including UK Times, Fortune, Wired, EdTech, Venture Beat, San Francisco Business Times, The Economist, The Washington Post, TechCrunch, Scientific American, and Forbes.

Academia is a proud equal opportunity employer and we are committed to hiring and supporting a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

• Hands-on experience building, deploying, and scaling mobile applications.

• 2-5+ years of software engineering experience.

• Strong knowledge of web services architecture, and the ability to quickly learn new technologies.

 

Our ideal candidate is an engineer that is a solid software engineering generalist that is experienced and knowledgeable in iOS development, deployment, and best-practices.

 

Academia’s mission is to make every academic research paper published available on any platform, anywhere, anytime for free.

 

You will design and build systems and services with Swift to make our user base more productive on their iOS mobile devices in their academic work life. This will include:

 

* a scalable mobile newsfeed, highlighting the latest research in every field that will be customizable by user preferences.

* mobile notifications for key events relating to an academic's work

* an engaging peer review system to facilitate the identification & wide-scale distribution of high-quality academic research

* advanced search products

* impact metrics and personalized analytics

 

You will be part of a small “world class” team that will build new products and features from scratch! Your work will have a positive social impact on many millions of academics and non-academics alike by making all academic knowledge more accessible in much shorter time frames and accelerating the world's research.

·        Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related major strongly preferred.

·        Hands-on experience building, deploying, and scaling native iOS applications.

·        2-5+ years of software engineering experience.

·        Strong knowledge Computer Science fundamentals and web services architecture

·        The ability to quickly learn new technologies and apply them successfully.

 

We are building entirely new iOS mobile apps for Academia. The codebase is brand new and done with Swift with a JSON REST API.  Our mobile engineers will learn some basic backend development to enable them to create database migrations and API endpoints essentially making us “mobile full-stack”.  We are taking our time to get the architecture and design patterns right, it’s our intention to build a quality product in lieu of taking shortcuts to rush to market.

You will join a team of equally talented, fun, smart, collaborative people in building new products and from scratch and new features on existing products. You will be a part of a positive, supportive work/life balance culture that fosters your professional growth. You will enjoy an employee-focused benefits program that includes 100% employer paid premiums on health, dental, and vision insurance, a generous time off policy (21-days paid vacation, 11 federal holidays, and unlimited sick days), stock options, a daily catered lunch, a fully stocked kitchen, and a book stipend. We’re conveniently located a few blocks from MUNI & BART stations in beautiful downtown San Francisco office close to world class restaurants and other venues.

Academia.edu is building a new distribution and peer review platform for academic research.  Guided by a mission to accelerate the world’s research, Academia aims to make every academic paper ever published available for free online and accessible by anyone in the world.

 Academia has built a network of Academics around the world who access our platform on the web and via native mobile apps to discover new research, collaborate, recommend and peer review papers, and gather feedback on draft research by participating in real-time collaborative sessions. 

 

Academia’s platform has more than 110 million registered users (growing at over 150,000 per day), has over 70 million unique visitors every month. We have over 150,000 paying premium subscribers, which has contributed to us doubling in revenue for both of the last two years.

 

Academia has attracted $34 million in investment from leading VC firms including Khosla Ventures, True Ventures, Spark Capital, and Tencent. Our work has garnered favorable attention from trade and mainstream media including UK Times, Fortune, Wired, EdTech, Venture Beat, San Francisco Business Times, The Economist, The Washington Post, TechCrunch, Scientific American, and Forbes.

 

Academia is a proud equal opportunity employer and we are committed to hiring and supporting a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

 

 

Academia.edu is hiring a Product Data Analyst

Despite several companies laying off workers due to the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, Academia.edu in San Francisco is still growing rapidly and is profitable. We’re looking for a talented Product Data Analyst to help us achieve this mission.  

 Life is short - do something that matters!

Join a company where your work changes the world for the better. As a Product Data Analyst on our Data Science Team, you will play an important role in decisions to improve our products and company by analyzing our massive data to derive insights and present them to the decision-makers.

 

Our mission is to accelerate the world's research. This increases the velocity of scientific achievement in every field, resulting in a positive social impact on humanity. Our open-access platform for the online publishing and distribution of all scientific research papers is free. This platform also provides the means for professors, scientists, and researchers to collaborate on their fields of interest in real time. Our business model is a premium subscription service.

 

We are proud to share that we have over 125 Million registered users and that's growing by 3-4 Million a month in addition to having 20M monthly active users. We are a small team of ~54 employees with ~30 engineers. Our current plans call for us to launch several new products and still be self-sufficient and profitable this year! All this during some of the most challenging times in the past 100 years!

 

As a Product Data Analyst, and part of the Data Science team, you will:

 

• Interface daily with Academia’s Product Management team, Leadership and Executives.

 

• Be responsible for building the PM team’s analytical skills and tackle many of the most challenging data analysis questions yourself.

 

• Use data and analytics to routinely answer questions on user behavior and the results of product tests.

 

• Routinely monitor product, financial, and user metrics for trends, changes, and unexpected behavior; work with the PM team to evaluate which metrics should be monitored.

 

• Create reports to reflect various changes in business metrics e.g. traffic, sign-ups, upgrades, retention/churn, feature usage, email CTRs, etc. and present them to various members of the company as needed.

 

• Translate metrics, investigations, and findings into likely business outcomes.

 

• Independently design an accurate and consistent framework for answering analytics questions.

 

• Suggest new business and product opportunities based on data insights.

 

• Proactively identify ways to improve day-to-day responsibilities, such as optimizing database structure, implementing report automation, researching the use of better analytics tools, etc.

 

• Communicate business requirements to the rest of the Data Science team to enable new analyses.

  

• Bachelors and/or Masters in Math, Statistics, or related quantitative field

• 2-5 years of relevant experience doing product and business analytics for very large scale datasets.

• Excellent SQL skills are a must.

• Programming skills with one or more of these languages R, Python, SAS... and the willingness and ability to learn new languages and tools as needed.

• Extensive experience querying large, complex data sets & proven ability to derive and present insights from multiple imperfect, varied, and inconsistent data sources using a scientific approach

• Experience with descriptive statistics and A/B testing approaches

• Expertise in creating spreadsheets of your findings and the presentation skills to share them in a coherent format with all stakeholders i.e. engineering, product, and company leadership teams.

• Detail-oriented with superior organizational skills; able to define stakeholder requests into projects and navigate between multiple projects, meet deadlines, and process ad hoc report requests from PMs, Leadership and Engineering as needed.

• Curious, resourceful, collaborative, communicative, and autonomous

• Positive and team-oriented "can-do" attitude

• Experience with the following (or comparable) tools is a plus: Redshift, our primary data warehouse technology; Periscope, our primary dashboarding tool; R or Python.

• Expertise in data wrangling, ETL and data mining techniques a plus.

•  Statistical modeling (regression analysis, ANOVA) a plus.

 Benefits & perks:

• Compensation & Benefits: Competitive salary, stock options, Flexible Spending Account (FSA) & DCA, & a 401k.

• Health & Self-Care: Paid medical, dental, & vision insurance for employees & their dependents.

• Flexible sick days, flexible hours, four weeks paid vacation, eleven company holidays, and paid parental leave.

• New Mac laptops with the accessories needed to maximize productivity and standing desks.

• Convenience & Location: Catered lunches served daily, snacks & drinks. On-site showers & bike storage. The office is located just a short walk to public transportation.

• Learning & Development: Budget for professional development, team building, and events. Free books.

• Fun & Activities: Chess, foosball, piano, guitar, board games, juggling. A Company retreat every summer. Weekly Bootcamp with our personal trainer.

• Paid Sabbatical: Six weeks of fully-paid sabbatical leave for every four years you work here.

 

Academia is a proud equal opportunity employer and we are committed to hiring and supporting a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. 

 

 

Academia.edu is profitable and growing, despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. We have a goal of making a bigger impact on the world, and we’re looking for a remarkable Growth Product Designer to help achieve this mission.  

Our mission is to accelerate the world's research. This increases the velocity of scientific achievement in every field, resulting in a positive social impact on humanity. Our open-access platform for the online publishing and distribution of all scientific research papers is free. This platform also provides the means for professors, scientists, and researchers to collaborate on their fields of interest in real time. Our business model is a premium subscription service.

 

We are proud to share that we have over 125 Million registered users and that's growing by 3-4 Million a month in addition to having 20M monthly active users. We are a small team of ~54 employees with ~30 engineers. Our current plans call for us to launch several new products and still be self-sufficient and profitable this year! All this during some of the most challenging times in the past 100 years!

You’ll work closely with PMs, Engineers, User Researchers, and C-level Executives. You will be a full-stack "embedded" designer working closely with a dedicated PM, engineering lead, and ~5 engineerings.

This role reports to Academia's Design Manager, and is part of the broader Product, Design, and Research team led by Academia's Chief Operating Officer.

* Experience building new consumer product offerings, and conducting user research to inform MVP definition and development.

 

Academia is a proud equal opportunity employer and we are committed to hiring and supporting a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.