Job Description

Senior Developer at Scite. Remote (US). We build AI-powered tools that help researchers and organizations make sense of the scientific literature. Small team, hard problems, momentum. MCP server launched; enterprise adoption growing; product roadmap full of ambitious bets. Stack across frontend, backend, AI/ML, infrastructure, observability. Frontend: React 18, Redux/Redux Saga, Webpack, SWC, Express (SSR), CSS Modules. Backend: FastAPI (Python 3.11), Flask, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, Celery. AI/ML: Claude (Anthropic), OpenAI, PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, sentence-transformers, RAG pipelines. Infrastructure: AWS (ECS Fargate, RDS, S3, Lambda), Docker, Kong API Gateway, GitHub Actions, CircleCI. Observability: OpenTelemetry, New Relic, Sentry, PostHog. Other: Stripe, SendGrid, Playwright, TypeScript. What we’re looking for: Strong engineering fundamentals; comfortable across the stack; Python and JavaScript/React in particular. Experience with PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, or similar data-intensive systems is a plus. Familiarity with LLM APIs and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is a bonus. Genuine curiosity about how AI can improve how people interact with research. If you’re interested or know someone who might be a great fit, email josh@scite.ai.