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Careers

What are we?

Cureus is the medical journal and professional sharing platform for a new generation of doctors and patients. Based in San Francisco, California, Cureus leverages the power of an online, crowd-sourced community platform to promote medical research and discovery with tools to better serve and highlight physicians and researchers around the world. The result? Better research, faster publication and easier access for everyone.

That’s why we created Cureus, an online medical journal with no or minimal cost to publish and free reader access - a freemium business model based on digital advertising, hosting mini journals and publishing competitions. We’re working to reduce the barriers to publication whenever possible with the goal of increasing the global literature of medical knowledge.

Who are we?

We are a tight-knit group that hires smart people and trusts them to do their best to meet goals. We check egos and entitlement at the door, but welcome intellectual honesty. We take pride in our work to drive change and challenge the status quo. We're here to solve a big problem in the publishing industry. We're passionate about creating remarkable experiences and products for our customers.

Where are we?

Cureus is based in San Francisco, CA, but the entire team is currently working remotely as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Benefits

Competitive salary + equity

Competitive salary & generous stock option package

Health + vision + dental insurance

Full medical, dental and vision to keep you healthy

Open vacation policy

We don’t track PTO - take the time that you need

Available Positions

Full Stack Software Engineer

Remote - Full-time


Who are you?

A seasoned, full-stack software engineer familiar with Ruby on Rails. Knowledge of ReactJS and AWS is a definite plus.

Job Description

As a Software Engineer at Cureus, you will be responsible for designing, building and owning the services and infrastructure that power the Cureus publishing process. You will build smart web applications and work with complex databases powering academic publishing, sponsored publishing competitions and custom branded micro-journals. Cureus aims to improve the lives of clinicians and researchers by streamlining the academic publishing process - if you want to devise and deliver high-quality solutions that help to change the publishing status quo, then we want you!

You will:

  • Build, test, scale, support and frequently refine new products and services for both internal and external web applications.
  • Work cross-functionally with our product, marketing and editorial teams to develop new features and improve existing processes.
  • See the big picture to design fault tolerant systems so the team can be brave, move fast, and break things, without ever showing a negative impact to customers.
  • Be an owner of what you build, managing the entire product lifecycle.
  • Tackle a wide variety of coding challenges throughout the stack and contribute to all parts of our code base.
  • Be a team player in a small, flat-structured, highly collaborative environment.
  • Be surrounded by a great team of highly talented professionals doing the best work of their lives, and having fun with it.

Qualifications

You have:

  • At least 2 years professional software development experience preferably in Ruby on Rails.
  • Experience writing JavaScript, HTML, CSS and using modern frontend frameworks like React.
  • Strong UI/UX experience including building pixel perfect components from scratch.
  • Strong SQL skills and experience working with relational databases like PostgreSQL.
  • Interest in working full-stack, from optimizing database transactions to building reliable backend systems and frontend web applications.
  • Data and metrics-oriented mindset: you want your work to be measurable and impactful.
  • Customer empathy: you seek to understand your customers’ needs and requirements.
  • Strong software development skills and computer science fundamentals.
  • Ability to design and write well-structured, easily maintainable, well-documented code that balances beauty and pragmatism.
  • Self-motivated, with the ability to context-switch, prioritize, set and meet release dates, and thrive on a fully remote team.
  • Passion about learning, and tackling new and exciting technical challenges.

Please contact us at: [email protected] with Full Stack Software Engineer in the subject line

Social Media Marketing Internship

Remote


Do you want to help revolutionize and democratize a segment of the medical industry? If so, you’ve come to the right place. Cureus is looking for the right person to assist with our social media efforts. The ideal individual for this role has a strong interest in learning about social media strategy and helping implement daily social media functions across all of our channels: LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, and Reddit. A familiarity with scheduling tools such as later.com is a plus. You should be organized, diligent, and detail focused. This is an unpaid internship that will provide rewarding experience in the social media and medical worlds.

Responsibilities:

  • Search for aesthetically and medically appropriate stock images via Adobe Stock Photos
  • Help search for and schedule content on our social media calendar
  • Help organize social media spreadsheets
  • Post daily within Facebook interest groups and subreddits
  • Use content to create daily Instagram stories
  • Search for and connect with our users on social media platforms

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Current high school or college student
  • Experience using social media platforms
  • Experience using google suite (sheets, docs, etc…)
  • Thrive in a self-starter, fast-paced and changing environment

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Work experience in social media and/or professional healthcare segment
  • Passion for making a difference in the world through positive changes in healthcare

Minimum Commitment:

  • This is a summer internship (that could turn into a longer term internship), so working through the end of August is required
  • Minimum 7 hours per week commitment; ideally 15 hours per week
To apply for the position, please email your resume to [email protected]

Job Type: Internship

Additional Information

At Cureus, we value diversity and always treat all employees and job applicants based on merit, qualifications, competence, and talent. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.