PubPub

The Knowledge Futures Group is hiring a software developer to help us build PubPub, a collaborative and open publishing tool for the academic web. We want an internet full of publishing tools that empower researchers rather than preying on them and more fully capture the research process in the final product — so we’re building one. PubPub already hosts over 500 books, conferences, and journals, from annotated editions of public-domain works to cutting-edge German theology to the Harvard Data Science Review. Right now we’re hard at work building features focused on editorial review, data portability, and institution-level scalability. We are a small team looking for a full-stack web developer ready to work with a React frontend and a Node/Postgres backend. Lots of our engineering problems are related to performant, collaborative rich text editing and marshaling a pile of the publishing industry's tools and standards into a coherent user experience. The larger challenge of PubPub is to invent new, healthier social dynamics around publishing while meeting practical needs, so we’re looking for folks eager to contribute to design- and product-level decisions toward that end. As a member of the team you will also be a member of the Knowledge Futures Group, which is loosely based in Boston/Cambridge. But the PubPub product team spans the UK, the US, and India, and we are interested in honing a remote-first culture.