✨ Summary

• 🆕 Innovative Product: AI-powered reading platform for academic papers
• 🏖️ Flexible Work: Remote position offering flexible work schedule
• 🥊 Competitive Team: Founding team of ex-Meta/FB engineers from Silicon Valley

In this role, you will:

• Lead development of entire features end-to-end
• Design and build reliable and reusable frontend and backend systems that drive complex user interactions and AI analyses
• Build strong trust and partnership with the Engineering Lead, through the ability to plan and deliver code of good quality within a reasonable timeframe, and an effective communication of timeline
• Work collaboratively and transparently with the team, including holding Engineering Design reviews, and proactively incorporating critical feedback from code reviews
• Grow a deep appreciation of our users and work with the entire product team to think hard about how to supercharge their research process with AI

You will do really well in this role if you:

• Have experience building production web apps at scale with React+TypeScript, or with other technologies, web or non-web
• Excel at solving new problems you’ve never seen before and have developed a methodical and systematic approach to manage the risks and progress inherent in innovation
• Have an uncanny ability to transform a complex technical problem into a simple elegant solution
• Have a voracious desire to learn and bridge skill gaps in order to get to your goals, and a love for sharing that learning with those around you
• Are comfortable with ambiguity and rapidly changing requirements and priorities, and welcome opportunities to tame the unknown with forward-thinking engineering principles

In particular, these are good signs you’ll enjoy this work if you:

• Love architecturing systems that are robust and future-proof, yet simple to reason about
• Get excited reasoning about race conditions and state-modeling using strong typing
  
  The Stack
  
  • frontend: React + TypeScript, Next.js, ChakraUI
  • backend: Firebase (Auth, Firestore, Functions, Storage)
  • hosting: Vercel
  • monitoring: Sentry
  • analytics: Heap

All our interviews are conducted remotely via Google Meet, with the technical parts done on Google Doc and/or Jamboard. For coding tasks, you may answer in any programming language you’re comfortable with, or even in pseudo-code.

1. Preliminary Screen (30min): Our recruitment team will reach out to discuss the role and your expectations, followed by an algorithm / data structure problem (i.e. Leetcode-style)
2. Technical Interview (25min): You will work on a real-life coding task with your future team lead. We’re primarily looking for how you tackle problems systematically, and your ability to logically reason about how code run
3. Final Interview (55min): A system design challenge based on a real business need encountered in pushing the current app to production, plus another algorithm / data structure problem.

We understand that interviews can be a stressful and nerve-wracking environment, so we designed the interactions to be as collaborative and supportive as possible. While you may use ChatGPT or Google as part of the problem-solving, the ability to focus and think deeply about the problem at hand is key and cannot be substituted by a tool.