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Paperpile for Safari and Firefox
Paperpile for Safari and Firefox is in beta and coming later this year
At the moment, you can only sign up for Paperpile on Chrome. However, once you have signed up, you can join our beta for Safari and Firefox.
Paperpile mobile app
Please sign up for the Trial on your desktop computer. In the meantime you can try Paperpile for AndroidiOS.
Paperpile authenticates securely with your Google Account. Our servers never access your password or store it anywhere.
It also connects to your Google Drive, but cannot access your personal data — only files you upload via Paperpile.
And of course, we won't share your e-mail address with anyone.
Help us build and grow Paperpile
Work on products used and loved by hundreds of thousands of researchers and students worldwide.
Our user base is growing fast and so is the team around it
As part of a small team, everything you do matters. You only work on stuff that has a direct big impact on the product and our customers.
Work from anywhere on your own schedule. As a remote-first company, we communicate and collaborate with tools like Slack, Figma, and Notion to move our product forward fast.
Work with an interesting and diverse community of academics. Our customers use Paperpile to study climate change, cancer, or medieval history. You interact with them directly to understand how we can make their work more productive.
😊 Academics welcome. We pay special attention to applications from the academic community. With an academic background, you understand the need of our user base, bring analytical thinking, data/coding experience, communication, writing skills … So even if you think it might not be a perfect match, we want to hear from you!
Paperpile runs on data at scale, with a literature database of 250M+ academic papers and a growing body of user data accumulated over more than a decade. You'll work across the systems that ingest, process, store, and serve this data reliably: building pipelines, optimizing search, handling PDFs at scale, and exposing clean APIs.
Requirements
Strong backend engineering background with experience building and operating data-heavy systems in production.
Experience deploying and operating services on AWS.
Experience designing and maintaining data ingestion pipelines handling messy, heterogeneous sources. Comfortable with web scraping and working with third-party data sources and APIs.
Familiarity with Node.js and TypeScript. It's fine if you come from a different background, such as Java or Python, but you should be comfortable working in this environment.
High standards for data quality. You think carefully about correctness, deduplication, and consistency.
Solid understanding of full-text search systems including indexing strategy, relevance tuning, and query optimization.
Proficient in building reliable REST APIs.
More useful experience (optional):
Familiarity with academic publishing formats and data sources (PubMed, Crossref, arXiv…)
Experience with PDF processing pipelines (extraction, transformation, storage and delivery at scale).
Experience with LLM-based document processing or ML pipelines for extracting structured data from unstructured text.
Large scale web crawling and scraping.
Benefits
Bonus/equity program.
4 weeks paid vacation + local holidays.
We sponsor co-working space in your city.
Learn and grow. Try out new things. We sponsor relevant courses, seminars, and conferences.
We use React and TypeScript across all our product lines: web app, browser extensions, iOS and Android apps (React Native), and desktop apps (Electron). You'll take ownership of substantial parts of our codebase, shipping polished UI and the connected backend services for new features and products. You'll write and maintain frontend (Playwright) and backend tests, and help keep our CI/CD pipelines healthy.
Requirements
Deep understanding of React and a track record of building complex, production React applications
Able to deliver pixel-perfect, production-ready code from Figma mockups on time
Strong eye for detail and a dedication to creating fast, enjoyable user interactions
Strong knowledge of TypeScript and its ecosystem (Babel, Webpack, Jest, Express…) and underlying web technologies (HTML5, CSS3, REST APIs)
Solid backend skills in Node.js: comfortable building and consuming APIs, implementing algorithms, and data heavy processing workflows.
Experience running production backend services reliable and efficiently at scale
Experience writing complete, robust and maintainable tests with Playwright or similar frameworks.
More useful experience (optional):
React Native for iOS and Android
Browser extension development (Chrome/Chromium, Safari, Firefox)
Desktop app development on Windows and macOS (Electron and natively).
Web crawling
PDF and document processing
Server operations on AWS
Benefits
Bonus/equity program.
4 weeks paid vacation + local holidays.
We sponsor co-working space in your city.
Learn and grow. Try out new things. We sponsor relevant courses, seminars, and conferences.
