Senior Mobile Engineer – iOS

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.

What will you build?

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.

 Position Requirements

· 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.

Technologies we use

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.

What’s in it for you?

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.

About us…

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.