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!
Senior Backend Engineer (Data, Search, Infrastructure)
Description
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.
Apply for this jobFull-Stack Engineer (TypeScript, React)
Description
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.
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