Job Description

Digital Science


We are Digital Science and we are advancing the research ecosystem.

We are a pioneering technology company, and our vision is of a future where a trusted and collaborative research ecosystem drives progress for all. We believe in better, open, collaborative and inclusive research. In creating the next generation of tools and working in partnership with the community we tackle some of the biggest challenges to research. In order to achieve our vision, we need innovative, inspiring and dynamic people to join our team. Do you want to join us in achieving our vision?
Europe, Remote
Berufserfahrene

What you’ll be doing


Our backend stack is mainly Node.js, Express, MongoDB and Redis. We are hosted on Google

Cloud Platform, mainly in Google Kubernetes Engine. Our frontend stack is React with

TypeScript. And we’re in large part open source (https://github.com/overleaf/overleaf). We

deploy 2–6 times daily, supported by a modern cloud stack, continuous integration and a lot of

automation.



Your main activities will be:

Work with product managers and UX researchers to provide technical input on new development. Our engineering and product teams work together closely to make sure we are building the right thing and building it right. Write high-quality frontend and backend code, mainly in JavaScript and TypeScript. Write automated tests. We rely heavily on automated testing to catch regressions. Take your code through to production. We practice DevOps, with the support of our operations team, and expect engineers to take responsibility for getting their code out to production and making sure it is working properly. Participate in code review. All our changes go through GitHub pull requests with code review. Participate in our support rotation. All engineers rotate through providing second-line support for our product during working hours (currently ~1 day per month). Write documentation and detailed pull request / commit messages. Understand and avoid security pitfalls. Security is important to us, and we expect everyone to be aware of secure development practices. Engage with our software development process, and particularly retrospectives. We hold regular retrospectives to improve our process, which is based on six-week cycles followed by a two-week wrap-up and planning period. Work with your engineering manager and your peers to develop your personal and professional skills. We believe strongly in creating a safe space for learning and feedback. You will have regular 1:1s with your manager to discuss progression against our career ladder.

You can optionally participate in our compensated on-call rotation once you have finished your

probation period. We have two engineers on call at all times, a primary responder and an

incident coordinator. We do not have a high number of on-call incidents: see

https://status.overleaf.com/ for our incident history.