Senior Backend Engineer, Recommendations

Summary

Join Constructor's Recommendations team as a highly skilled engineer to design, deliver, and maintain high-load, real-time web services. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build robust recommendation services, implement CI/CD pipelines, and set up service observability. Leverage your expertise in infrastructure as code, scripting languages (Python, Go, or Rust), and NoSQL databases. Contribute to a team committed to innovation in product discovery using large language models. This role offers a fully remote work environment, unlimited vacation time, and a comprehensive benefits package.

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

• 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
• Work with smart people who will help you grow and make a meaningful impact
• Compensation: base range of 80-110K USD + stock options
• Work from home stipend! We want you to have the resources you need to set up your home office