Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)

Academia.edu is addressing two problems:

- Open access. The goal here is to put every academic pdf ever written on the internet, available for free.

- The reproducibility crisis. It has emerged over the last few years that 65-90% of the scientific literature is not reproducible. What this means is that if you try to reproduce the experiments described in a paper, 65-90% of the time you will not get the same findings. This is known as "the reproducibility crisis"

With regard to open access, Academia allows academics to upload papers to Academia, and make them freely available. Academics have uploaded about 16 million pdfs to Academia.edu, and upload about 1 million a month. About 30 million people come to Academia each month to access and share papers.

With regard to reproducibility, we think the way to solve the reproducibility crisis is to build a new peer review system that (a) crowd-sources peer review from the academic community and (b) provides credit to material that journals don't publish (data-sets, code, replications, failed replications).

Academia has built a recommendation system which is the basis of our approach to (a) and (b). We realize that addressing reproducibility is a huge challenge. We need mission-driven engineers to come and help us. We have raised $28 million from Tencent, Khosla Ventures, Spark Capital, and True Ventures. Bijan Sabet from Spark Capital writes "We believe open science is really important. We believe Academia.edu is going to have a profound impact on the world."

We are looking to hire full stack software engineers. Technologies we use include Ruby, Rails, Postgres, DynamoDB, React. Our office is in downtown San Francisco. For more information, visit http://academia.edu/hiring. If you are interested to learn more, please email Richard Price at richard [at] academia.edu

Come join Sway, one of the newest members of the Office suite (sway.com)! Sway team is focused on re-inventing how users author and consume documents in a cloud and mobile first world. Sway is a collection of Azure services and endpoints (Web, Windows, iOS, Android) that enable users to create dynamic web first documents that adapt their layout so they look beautiful on all screens and devices. Sway is looking for a passionate engineer with demonstrated experience in web development who is excited to work in an agile V1 environment where we move at the speed of the web, shipping to production daily, and accrue value to Office 365, one of the largest and most important Microsoft assets!

This position requires an engineer with demonstrated experience in web development to help lead the next evolutions of the Sway web stack. Qualified candidates should be experienced in industry application of web technologies such including JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML5, and CSS3 and common industry standard libraries such as jQuery, React, etc. Day to day you can expect to be working in a small team of 3-5 engineers focusing on cross platform excellence of Sway web components. You will be expected to deliver maintainable, well tested code and analyze user telemetry and operational metrics to measure the impact of your work.

Skills Required:

• 5+ years of web development experience

• Demonstrated experience writing readable code with low defect count and thorough unit test coverage.

• Demonstrated experience with web technologies: JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML5, and CSS3.

• Industry experience building products using common web libraries such as React, MobX, jQuery, etc is desirable.

• BS in Computer Science or related field.

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I have been an engineer on the web team for nearly two years. This job posting isn't live yet, so e-mail me (AdamRe at Microsoft) for now. I'll try to check for replies to this thread a few times today and over the coming days.