OpenAlex

OpenAlex is hiring remote full-time software engineers to build and operate its scholarly research API and backend stack for an open, nonprofit research index.

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Remote$150,000–$200,000 full-time

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SQLPySparkDatabricksPythonFlaskElasticsearchCloudflare WorkersAI-native developmentworking with coding agents

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scholarly research education API infrastructure open data nonprofit

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OpenAlex | Software Engineer | Remote | Full-time | $150–200k USD
OpenAlex is an open index of the world's scholarly research: hundreds of millions of articles linked to authors, institutions, and topics, free via API and bulk download. Traffic runs about a billion API calls per month from universities, governments, and AI companies. The team behind it is a small nonprofit funded by grants and enterprise support.
We're hiring two engineers to work across the whole backend, which is SQL and PySpark on Databricks, Python/Flask APIs, Elasticsearch, and Cloudflare Workers. It's a small team with lots of autonomy. You'll notice what's missing, build it, ship it, and answer the tickets about it. We're AI-native, with agents writing all of our code.
Apply here: https://openalex.org/jobs/software-engineer

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