Clojure job: Full Stack Clojure Engineer - Sysrev

Full Stack Clojure Engineer - Sysrev at Insilica

🇺🇸 United States › Maryland › Rockville   (Posted Dec 15 2025)

Salary
$100,000 – $140,000 USD

Job description
Full-Stack Clojure Engineer
Hybrid - Rockville, MD | Mid-to-Senior Level

Sysrev is a platform for collaborative data extraction and document review. Research teams use it to review scientific literature, label data, and integrate human judgments with AI-assisted automation.

We're hiring full-stack engineers who want to build sophisticated research tools in Clojure(script) and work at the intersection of functional programming, AI/ML, and academic workflows.

What You'll Do

- Build features end-to-end in a Polylith-based Clojure/ClojureScript monorepo
- Design reactive UIs with Re-frame, Reagent, and TailwindCSS
- Design clean APIs and data models in PostgreSQL
- Integrate AI services (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini) for document analysis and auto-labeling
- Work with document processing pipelines (GROBID, PDF extraction)
- Ship quickly, iterate in the REPL, and help define our product direction

Our Stack

- Frontend: ClojureScript, Re-frame, Reagent, React, Shadow-CLJS, TailwindCSS
- Backend: Clojure, Aleph, Ring, Reitit, HoneySQL
- Data: PostgreSQL, Apache Iceberg, Apache Spark, Memcached
- Infrastructure: AWS (CloudFormation, S3, EC2), Nix, Docker
- Dev Tools: Polylith, Kaocha, clj-kondo, GitHub Actions

You'll Thrive Here If You:

- Love functional programming and are excited about Clojure/ClojureScript
- Understand immutable data structures and pure functions
- Have experience with SQL and database design (PostgreSQL preferred)
- Are comfortable with React or similar frameworks
- Enjoy REPL-driven development and fast feedback loops
- Communicate well and collaborate in a hybrid environment

Nice to Have

- Experience with Re-frame or reactive state management patterns
- Background in academic research, systematic reviews, or bibliometrics
- DevOps experience (CloudFormation, Nix, Docker)
- Document processing or NLP experience

How We Work

- REPL-driven development with hot-reloading
- Component-based architecture (Polylith) for modularity and testability
- Nix-based reproducible development environments
- Automated testing with selective runs for changed components
- Branch-based deployments with CI/CD
- Small, focused team where your decisions shape the product

Benefits

- Compensation $100,000–$140,000 based on skill level
- Health, dental, vision
- 401(k)
- Hybrid schedule (regular onsite work in Rockville, MD)

Requirements

- U.S. work authorization required; we are unable to sponsor visas.

If you're interested in building research tools that matter, working in a pure functional codebase, and joining a small team where you'll have real impact, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply now!