Remote Backend Engineer, Recommendations

Summary

Join a passionate team of cross-functional engineers at Constructor, where you'll design, deliver, and maintain high-load real-time web services in close collaboration with other great engineers. As part of the Recommendations team, you'll perfect traditional methods of product discovery while spearheading new avenues with large language models.

Requirements

• Strong computer science background & familiarity with networking principles
• Experience in designing, developing & maintaining highload real-time services
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like CloudFormation or Terraform for managing cloud resources
• Hands-on experience with setting up and improving CI/CD pipelines
• Proficiency in a scripting language like Python and, as a plus, in compiled languages like Go or Rust
• Experience in server-side coding for web services, and a good understanding of API design principles
• Skilled in setting up and managing observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and integrating alert systems like PagerDuty
• Familiarity with Service-Oriented Architecture, knowledge of communication protocols like protobuf
• Experience with NoSQL and relational databases, distributed systems, and caching solutions
• Experience with any of the major public cloud formation: AWS, Azure, GCP
• Experience collaborating in cross-functional teams
• Excellent English communication skills

Responsibilities

• Design, deliver & maintain highload real-time web services
• Build / deploy / support robust recommendations services including io-bound web services, cpu-bound services and data services
• Write AWS CloudFormation scripts, Jenkins jobs, Github actions following best industry standards
• Set up service observability, monitoring metrics, and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty, AWS CloudWatch)
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and separate stability testing for recommendations needs
• Collaborate with technical and non-technical business partners to develop / update recommendations functionalities
• Communicate with stakeholders within and outside the team

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
• Apple laptop provided for new employees
• Training and development budget for every employee, refreshed each year
• Parental leave for qualified employees