Staff Backend Engineer

Summary

Join You.com's world-class team of software engineers to architect, implement, and deploy a consumer-facing product leveraging AI for trusted information. You will build a performant and secure backend and data pipelines for AI systems and user-facing features, creating web-scale systems for millions of users. This role requires expertise in building and deploying mission-critical services, writing tests, and working with Kubernetes. Collaboration with front-end developers, designers, and product managers is essential. You.com offers a remote-first work environment with various benefits, including unlimited PTO, competitive health insurance, paid parental leave, and a 401k program.

Requirements

• You have built and deployed mission critical REST/RPC consumable services and built code to test and monitor those services to watch for issues
• Comfortable writing unit and integration tests and the related frameworks, you default to writing tests to cover your code paths
• Are comfortable with k8s, making basic updates to deployments or configuration and debugging when things go wrong in these systems

Responsibilities

• Be a product-minded engineer who likes to design, build and maintain new product features and infrastructure end-to-end
• Feel comfortable collaborating with talented front-end developers, designers, and product managers as well a cross-functional stakeholders from all around the company
• Develop and maintain our production databases (SQL and NoSQL), are comfortable maintaining databases and building performant query patterns for scale
• Debug live production issues and proactively write tests to avoid those issues in the first place
• Ship performant, monitored, user facing production services
• Contribute to a healthy and supportive culture of code review and strong coding practices. Help build a team culture and set of architectural patterns that will help the org and team scale as we grow

Benefits

• A remote-first work environment with hubs in California, NYC, and Canada that offer monthly in-person gatherings
• Unlimited PTO with 11 U.S. holidays observed and a week shutdown in December to rest and recharge
• Competitive health insurance plan, where 100% of the policyholder is covered and 75% for dependents
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave in the US; additional time off is also considered
• 401k program, 3% match coming January 2025 - no vesting period
• $500 work-from-home stipend to be used up to a year of your start date
• $1,200 / year Health & Wellness Allowance to support your personal goals
• In-person coworking weeks 1 to 2 times a year
• Chance to collaborate with a team at the forefront of AI research