At Litmaps, we're on a mission to accelerate scientific discovery, and we're looking for an excellent Senior Front End Developer. This is a senior role for an experienced technical specialist who will enjoy the challenge and the responsibility of leading front end development and support for our research platforms, Litmaps and ResearchRabbit. You'll design, build, and test the interfaces researchers rely on every day — from our component libraries and style systems to real-time, citation-graph visualisations built with HTML Canvas and WebGL. You will work closely with other team members to design and implement performant, extensible front end architecture. You will build and maintain code quality processes and testing practices, supported by thorough documentation. You'll be an integral part of our team with a lot of autonomy in decision-making.
If you're motivated, hands-on, love autonomy, and thrive in a space where creativity meets collaboration, we'd love to hear from you. We consider candidates as applications come in so please apply as soon as possible.
Let's build something that champions good science!
Think you’d be a good fit for the role and our team? Are you excited to use your skills to accelerate scientific progress? If so, we’d love to hear from you as soon as possible! Apply through the website. Please include a CV and cover letter in PDF format telling us about awesome projects you’ve worked on and why you’d be a great fit for this role! Please note that we will be interviewing suitable candidates as soon as receive the application.
At Litmaps we are always looking to hire the best talent and recognise that diversity in our experiences and backgrounds makes us stronger. To reduce unconscious bias in our recruitment we will redact names, gender, age, and any other information which may prime us from your application in the first screening. Due to this, please do not contact individual team members about your application. If you have any questions about the recruitment process, please send an email to careers@litmaps.com.
At Litmaps we believe science and engineering are our best bets for creating better outcomes for the world, so our mission is to accelerate progress towards scientific breakthroughs and new technologies.
To do this we build modern research platforms (Litmaps and ResearchRabbit) that are intuitive, concise, collaborative, and promote the accessibility of knowledge. We focus on visualisation and search tools to help scientists and researchers in their discovery of literature.
Millions of new papers are published every year and Litmaps is used by nearly 500,000 researchers to discover new research in their field. Litmaps visually maps how scientific articles are connected allowing researchers to explore their topic, find relevant research, and collaboratively stay on top of their field.
There are nearly 20 million graduate students who are pursuing master’s or a PhD through their research and ResearchRabbit is used by over a million of them as they iteratively explore their research topic and questions. Early stage research can feel messy and overwhelming and ResearchRabbit is carefully designed to help them follow their curiosity whilst staying organised.