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Software Engineer at OpenAlex
- Role: Software Engineer
- Location: Remote
- Type: Full-time
- Compensation: $150,000 – $200,000 USD
- Source: Hacker News
About OpenAlex
OpenAlex is an open index of the world's scholarly research: hundreds of millions of articles linked to authors, institutions, and topics, available for free via API and bulk download. Our platform handles approximately one billion API calls per month from universities, governments, and AI companies. We are a small nonprofit organization funded by grants and enterprise support.
About the Role
We are hiring two engineers to work across our entire backend stack. This is a small team environment offering a high degree of autonomy. You will be responsible for identifying needs, building solutions, shipping code, and managing support tickets. We are an AI-native team, utilizing agents to assist in writing our code.
Technical Stack
- Data Processing: SQL and PySpark on Databricks
- APIs: Python/Flask
- Search: Elasticsearch
- Infrastructure: Cloudflare Workers