Overview

Paperpile is a modern web application to manage and write academic papers. We are a small, distributed team in the US and Austria. Our user-base is growing 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. We communicate with tools like Slack, Trello and Hangouts 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 talk to them every day to understand how we can make their work more productive.

We use JavaScript across all our service: The main web-app, our Chrome extension, Google Docs and Microsoft Word plugins, server-side scripts, our iOS and Android apps (React Native), and our upcoming desktop apps (Electron)

You will take responsibility for substantial parts of our codebase and ship new features and new products.

REQUIREMENTS

  • You have experience with modern JavaScript and have a deep understanding of web technologies (HTML5, CSS3, REST APIs, JQuery,…)
  • You have worked with Node.js and feel home in the Node.js ecosystem.
  • You have develped complex apps with React/Redux (or with other frameworks and want to learn React).
  • More useful experience (optional):
    • React Native
    • Native iOS or Android development
    • Electron
    • ExtJS
    • WordPress
    • MongoDB
    • ElasticSearch

About Paperpile

Paperpile was founded in 2012 by three computational biologists β€” Stefan, Greg and Andreas β€” who share a passion for exceptional software and scientific papers.

Started during their time as active researchers at the European Bioinformatics Institute and MIT, Paperpile is now developed in the US, Canada, and Austria.

The goal of Paperpile is to radically simplify the workflow of collecting, managing and writing papers. At every step, Paperpile aims to provide a "just works" solution that eliminates any unnecessary complexity.

Global collaboration between experts lies at the heart of modern scientific and medical research. These results are communicated through scholarly articles that appear in academic journals.

Although Google Docs is a good choice for academic group writing, it isn’t as popular as it could be because it is missing an important component- a reference manager. This tool enables researchers to credit the work of others that has influenced their thinking. Historically this is known as β€œstanding on the shoulders of giants” (Isaac Newton).

With the release of a free citations add-on for Google Docs, start-up Paperpile solves this problem. It enables scholars to write academic papers collaboratively, fully switch to the popular Google Apps ecosystem to manage their research library and boost productivity.