The Mission
The web was created by scientists and for scientists, to foster scientific collaboration and drive progress for a better world. Here at ResearchGate, we are looking for a PHP backend engineer to join our product team, which is building the features to connect scientists worldwide.
We are a bunch of pragmatic optimists from all around the world and many different backgrounds. Together, we focus on taking the web back to its original mission and changing the way scientists communicate for the better.
Our goal is to connect the world of science and make research open to all.
The Team
You will be working with Team Gummibears, a cross-functional team responsible for Platform Monetisation focusing on our Marketing Solutions and Scientific Talent products. We build innovative digital & content marketing products with the aim to increase both customer and researcher value.
We have an average of 55+ Million unique visitors per month. Our engineering efforts take lots of care, ownership and rapid response time: a single release -which happens multiple times a day- will immediately impact thousands of users.
This means that our next PHP engineer needs very strong PHP skills, because we need high quality and speedy software to be exposed to such a great scale. This engineer will also work on different areas such as JavaScript development -to deliver native and programmatic advertising-, front-end development with React for trivial UI development and from time to time, Java too.
Your work at Team Gummibears will include not only feature development, but constant improvement of our platform. We foster good quality software and want to keep improving ours as much as possible. Our team is very friendly towards refactoring, test-driven development, good architecture and design and we expect our next engineer to share the same values.
We also take mentoring seriously: you can expect a safe environment to learn, ask questions, challenge decisions and make mistakes. You will be paired with other engineers who will encourage, support and get you up to speed.
Last but not least, you will very seldom confront features that came out of thin air. Our Product Manager is very inventive indeed, but all code we write is tested, monitored and measured. Product changes and propositions come with a success metric and we simply cut out those that don’t make it.
The Environment
Joining ResearchGate gives you the possibility to:
Work with impact. At ResearchGate your input can help scientists and researchers to gain knowledge and solve problems of modern society.
Build at scale. ResearchGate is one of the most visited sites on the Internet. With us, you can create features that are used by millions of researchers per week.
Innovate through iteration. Agile methodologies are core to our success – this way of working allows you to build a feature, measure its success and learn how to improve it in short iterative cycles.
Grow at work. Whether you want to be a manager, an architect, or find your own way to drive impact, you will get the guidance you need. With regular one on ones, quarterly development talks and defined career levels, you and your manager will identify possible paths for you to grow.
The Hiring Process
Our hiring process is uncomplicated. You will be interviewed by the people you will be working with, pair-program with us and quickly find the role that suits you best to start making an impact.
We're located in the heart of Berlin, one of the most exciting cities in the world and a place where people from all walks of life feel welcome.
