Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Constructor's Retail Media team as a Senior Engineer to design, deliver, and maintain web services. You will build, deploy, and support services using Python and FastAPI, write AWS CloudFormation scripts, and set up service observability. Collaborate with various teams to develop and update functionalities, and communicate effectively with stakeholders. This role requires a strong computer science background, experience with high-load real-time services, and proficiency in IaC tools. Constructor offers unlimited vacation time, a competitive compensation package with stock options, a fully remote work environment, a work-from-home stipend, Apple laptops, a training and development budget, parental leave, and a collaborative, inclusive work culture.

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 Python
• 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 (MySQL/PostgreSQL, ClickHouse/Athena)
• Experience with any of the major public cloud service providers: AWS, Azure, GCP
• Experience collaborating in cross-functional teams
• Excellent English communication skills

Responsibilities

• Build / deploy / support services using Python and FastAPI
• 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
• Collaborate with technical and non-technical business partners to develop / update functionalities
• Communicate with stakeholders within and outside the team

Preferred Qualifications

Previous experience building ad tech solutions

Benefits

• ����️ Unlimited vacation time -we strongly encourage all of our employees take at least 3 weeks per year
• ���� A competitive compensation package including stock options
• ���� 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
• ���� Parental leave for qualified employees