Senior / Staff Backend Engineer (AI Search)
Full-time · Fully remote (US, UK, Canada, Europe, Switzerland, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, South Africa) · Up to $185k per year, the same regardless of where you live
This is a Senior / Staff Backend Engineer role on the AI search team of a fully remote company.
Looking for a senior or staff backend engineer to build AI-assisted answers into a search product used by a large audience. You will own this end to end, from first design to production, in a backend spanning Perl, Go and Node.js.
What You'll Do
- Build AI-assisted answers into search, from retrieval and prompting to evaluation and rollout
- Own your work end to end: design, implementation, deployment, monitoring and iteration
- Work across backend services written in Perl, Go and Node.js
- Set up and run eval frameworks so changes to models and prompts are measured, not guessed
- Make product and technical tradeoffs and explain them clearly to the team
- Mentor senior engineers and raise the bar on how the team builds
You
- 7+ years building backend systems that power a user-facing product
- Hands-on with AI agent tooling: eval frameworks, RAG pipelines, prompt engineering
- Fundamental understanding of complex data structures and algorithms
- Strong in at least one of Perl, Go or Node.js, and happy to work across all three
- Experience mentoring senior engineers
- Good product acumen, you understand what users need and can make tradeoffs when necessary
- Clear written and spoken communication, you work well in a distributed team
- A track record of owning systems end to end
Compensation and Benefits
- Compensation: Up to $185k per year, the same regardless of where you live
- Fully remote, hiring in the US, UK, Canada, Europe, Switzerland, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay and South Africa
- Unlimited PTO
- No core working hours, around 40 hours a week on average
- Flexible hours, organize your day around your life
- End to end ownership of what you build
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