[LRUG] [JOBS] Altmetric Looking for Ruby Developer to Help Measure the Broader Impact of Science

[Paul Mucur]

Hi LRUG,

We’re looking for a mid to senior Ruby developer to join our team at
Altmetric.

Altmetric analyses the online activity around scholarly content to measure
the broader impact of science and research. We deliver and support products
such as the Altmetric details pages [0], Altmetric Explorer [1] and the
Altmetric badges [2]. Our customers include institutions across Europe,
North America and Australia and scholarly publishers such as Springer
Nature, Wiley, Taylor & Francis and MIT Press.

  [0]: https://www.altmetric.com/about-our-data/altmetric-details-page/
  [1]: https://www.altmetric.com/products/explorer-for-institutions/
  [2]: https://www.altmetric.com/products/altmetric-badges/

We develop software in a friendly and flexible working environment,
processing hundreds of thousands of scholarly mentions and serving over 22
million API requests every day.

Examples of our recent projects include:

* Redeveloping our policy document system in Ruby to mine PDFs for
references to scholarly literature and push them through the Altmetric
pipeline to reveal policy attention to science;

* Launching version 2 of Altmetric Explorer for Institutions as a
PostgreSQL-backed Rails app, allowing users to search and analyse the full
Altmetric database with over 52 million mentions of 12 million research
outputs.

Our development team is divided into multidisciplinary product teams, each
empowered to deploy to our infrastructure multiple times a day. We hold
weekly “gatherings” across all product teams to keep everyone informed and
to discuss any bigger issues that affect multiple teams. We rotate people
to encourage collaboration and increase our shared understanding of all
parts of Altmetric.

Teams typically work in two week iterations, seeking feedback early and
often so that we can respond to change quickly. At the end of every
iteration, we hold reviews and retrospectives so that we can share
completed work and discuss changes to our way of working.

In order to create time for personal development, we hold “hack afternoons”
every two weeks for team members to explore new topics and technologies and
work with people outside their usual product team.

As a company, work-life balance is very important to us: we have flexible
working hours and our teams are setup to enable people to regularly work
from home.

All members of the team are provided with a MacBook Pro (we are happy to
discuss your requirements before you join) and have an annual training &
conference budget including international travel. We are users of open
source software and we support this [3] in any way we can. We also offer
company benefits such as a personal pension plan, life assurance cover,
childcare vouchers, private medical insurance and a travel or bike loan.

  [3]: https://github.com/altmetric
<https://github.com/altmetric>
We’re based in Kings Cross, close to the Guardian’s office in Kings Place &
Google’s new London headquarters. As a portfolio company of Digital Science
& Research Solutions Ltd, we share our office with other scientific
start-ups including figshare, Overleaf & Symplectic.

You'll need production experience developing Ruby web applications as part
of a team and some familiarity working with data, be it document-based,
key-based or relational (specific experience not required as we can teach
you the differences in practice).

Ultimately, we’re looking for people who are keen to learn and flexible in
their approach.

If this role interests you, please apply at https://altmetric.workable.
com/jobs/436220/candidates/new and you can see more information about the
company and job at the following links:

* https://www.altmetric.com/jobs/software-developer/
* http://stackoverflow.com/jobs/136249/software-developer-altmetric

Kind regards,

-- Paul
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