Senior Backend Engineer

Skills
Back-End Web DevelopmentArtificial IntelligenceContextOnline SearchOptimizing PerformancePipelinesSubject Indexing
Role

What the job involves

The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of backend development experience
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems caching and data storage internals
  • Focus on performance reliability and code quality
  • Ability to debug tough production issues and optimize bottlenecks
  • Curiosity about AI infrastructure and retrieval systems
  • Comfort in a fast-paced high-ownership startup environment

Nice to have

  • Mission-driven
  • Fast learner
  • High ownership
  • Team-oriented
  • Humility
  • Curious

Day to day

  • Build and operate large-scale distributed systems that power AI-ready web search
  • Develop APIs data pipelines and microservices for indexing retrieval and monitoring
  • Optimize performance scalability and resource usage across the stack while collaborating with ML and product teams
  • Participate in architecture discussions contribute to system design and write clean maintainable code during code reviews