Job Description

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.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: ₹2,200,000.00 - ₹4,000,000.00 per year

Supplemental Pay:

Performance bonus
Application Question(s):

Have you worked on the front end in production
Can you give an example

Q6. Have you build asynchronous backend systems using queues/kafka/airflow/celery etc.

Work Location: In person