<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Good morning LRUG,</span><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">We're looking for a permanent, full-time software developer to join the Altmetric development team near Kings Cross, London, developing software that processes hundreds of thousands of mentions and serves over 22 million API requests every single day.</div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br>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.<br></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> [0]: <a href="https://www.altmetric.com/about-our-data/altmetric-details-page/" target="_blank">https://www.altmetric.<wbr>com/about-our-data/altmetric-<wbr>details-page/</a></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> [1]: <a href="https://www.altmetric.com/products/explorer-for-institutions/" target="_blank">https://www.altmetric.<wbr>com/products/explorer-for-<wbr>institutions/</a></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> [2]: <a href="https://www.altmetric.com/products/altmetric-badges/" target="_blank">https://www.altmetric.<wbr>com/products/altmetric-badges/</a></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br>Examples of our recent projects include:<br><br>* 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;</div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">* 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.</div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">You'll need production experience developing 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).<br><br>Ultimately, we’re looking for people who are keen to learn and flexible in their approach.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.</div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> [3]: <a href="https://github.com/altmetric" target="_blank">https://github.com/<wbr>altmetric</a></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">If this role interests you, please apply at <a href="https://altmetric.workable.com/jobs/436220/candidates/new" target="_blank">https://altmetric.workable.<wbr>com/jobs/436220/candidates/new</a> and you can see more information about the company and job at the following links:</div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">* <a href="https://www.altmetric.com/jobs/software-developer/" target="_blank">https://www.altmetric.com/<wbr>jobs/software-developer/</a></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">* <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/jobs/136249/software-developer-altmetric" target="_blank">http://stackoverflow.com/<wbr>jobs/136249/software-<wbr>developer-altmetric</a></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Kind regards,</div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">-- Paul</div>
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