constructor - Staff Backend Engineer - Search Features & APIs (SABR)
Requirements
• Substantial experience building and operating high-traffic, low-latency backend services in production. • Extensive Python knowledge (our primary language). • Experience with observability and performance work in live systems. • Experience designing and evolving public APIs that external customers depend on. • Experience designing & implementing scalable service-oriented architectures. • BEYOND THE CODE • Track record of leading projects that span multiple engineers and quarters. • Influence without authority, and willingness to change your position when someone has a better argument. • Clear written communication - design docs, RFCs, postmortems. • Good judgment about trade-offs and scope. • Comfort with ambiguity and loosely defined problems. • Ownership that extends past merge, to how the system behaves in production. • Background in search, ranking, information retrieval, or e-commerce product discovery. • Exposure to AI/LLM-facing infrastructure (MCP, agent tooling, or similar).
Responsibilities
• Own the technical direction of one or more of our services - architecture, performance, and reliability. • Lead design of new systems and public APIs, and the evolution of existing ones as traffic and feature scope grow. • Raise the engineering bar through design and code review, and mentor mid and senior engineers into owning bigger scopes. • Partner with product, other engineering teams, and solutions/support to shape what we build and to represent search constraints and trade-offs honestly. • Take part in on-call for the systems you own, and lead incident response and follow-through when things break.
Benefits
• 🏝️ Unlimited vacation time - we strongly encourage all of our employees take at least 3 weeks per year • 🌎 Fully remote team - choose where you live • 🛋️ Work from home stipend! We want you to have the resources you need to set up your home office • 💻 Apple laptops provided for new employees • 🧑🎓 Training and development budget for every employee, refreshed each year • 👪 Maternity & Paternity leave for qualified employees • 🧠 Work with smart people who will help you grow and make a meaningful impact • 💵 Base salary: $110k–$130k USD, depending on knowledge, skills, experience, and interview results • 📈 Stock options - offered in addition to the base salary • 🎉 Regular team offsites to connect and collaborate • DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION AT CONSTRUCTOR
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