<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><h3><font size="2"><span style="font-weight:normal">Hello, My name
is Maël and I work at Altmetric. We have a remote-friendly position for a
person who is either eligible to work in the UK (British or EU) or
planning to relocate to the UK.</span></font></h3><b>We’re looking for a mid to senior Ruby developer to join our team.</b></div><div>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">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 </span><a href="https://www.altmetric.com/about-our-data/altmetric-details-page/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight:400">Altmetric details pages</span></a><span style="font-weight:400">, </span><a href="https://www.altmetric.com/products/explorer-for-institutions/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight:400">Altmetric Explorer</span></a><span style="font-weight:400"> and the </span><a href="https://www.altmetric.com/products/altmetric-badges/" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight:400">Altmetric badges</span></a><span style="font-weight:400">.
Our customers include institutions across Europe, North America and
Australia and scholarly publishers such as Springer Nature, Wiley,
Taylor & Francis and MIT Press.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">We develop software in a friendly and
flexible working environment, processing hundreds of thousands of
scholarly mentions and serving over 45 million API requests every day.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">We’re currently based in The Smithson building, in Clerkenwell. As a portfolio company of <a href="https://www.digital-science.com/products/" target="_blank">Digital Science</a>, we share our office with other scientific start-ups including Figshare, Overleaf & Symplectic.</span></p>
<p><strong>Day-to-day, we use technologies like:</strong></p>
<ul><li>Web applications using <a href="http://www.ruby-lang.org/" target="_blank">Ruby</a> and the <a href="http://rubyonrails.org/" target="_blank">Ruby on Rails</a> framework;</li><li>A data pipeline in <a href="https://www.php.net/" target="_blank">PHP</a>.</li><li>Databases where most of our data is stored in places like <a href="http://www.mongodb.org/" target="_blank">MongoDB</a>, <a href="http://redis.io/" target="_blank">Redis</a> and<a href="http://www.postgresql.org/" target="_blank"> PostgreSQL</a>;</li><li>Automated testing with RSpec and PHPUnit and code review.</li></ul>
<p>Ultimately, we’re looking for people who are keen to learn and
flexible in their approach. If you have transferable skills into any of
the above, then we’d love to hear from you. There’s plenty of time for
on-the-job learning for you to get comfortable.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">You will be part of a team
responsible for the development and maintenance of our user-facing web
applications and data pipeline. Using best practices, you will
continuously deliver our products to customers around the globe and
shape our engineering culture.</span></p>
<p><b>Examples of our recent projects include:</b></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">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;</span></li><li style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">Launching
version 2 of Altmetric Explorer for Institutions, allowing users to
search and analyse the full Altmetric database with over 52 million
mentions of 12 million research outputs;</span></li><li style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">Adding
Shibboleth authentication to Altmetric Explorer for Institutions,
allowing institutional users to use their existing user accounts and
ensuring a seamless and secure user experience.</span></li></ul>
<p><b>Development team</b></p>
<p>The development team is split into three small teams who each have
full control over improving the areas they’re responsible for. We hold
weekly “gatherings” across the whole development team to keep everyone
informed and to discuss any bigger issues that affect multiple project
teams.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><b>Life at Altmetric</b></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>In order to create time for personal development, we hold “hackdays”
every month for team members to explore new topics and technologies and
work with people outside their usual product team. These projects range
from building a prototype of something, experimenting with a new
technology, online training, or just reading that software development
book you never get around to during the week.</p>
<p>We offer a competitive market rate salary and 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 <a href="https://github.com/altmetric" target="_blank">support this</a>
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.</p>
<p>We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, which has given us a
wide diversity of backgrounds throughout the team. This is something
that Louise (our VP of Engineering), Ana (our CTO), and Kathy (our CEO)
have always strived for and we’re certainly pleased with the progress so
far.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">If this role interests you, please </span><a href="https://altmetric.workable.com/jobs/436220/candidates/new" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight:400">apply here</span></a>.</p></div></div></div>