Backend Engineer - Ranking Team

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Build, deploy, and support robust high-load machine learning-based real-time systems for search and browse experiences
• - Collaborate with technical and non-technical business partners to develop and update ranking functionalities
• - Optimize current ranking service performance to process requests faster
• - Optimize signals delivery and retrieval (aka Feature Store) for machine learning model inference
• - Communicate with stakeholders within and outside the team

Required Skills

• - Experience in designing, developing & maintaining high-load distributed real-time services (in cloud)
• - Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like CloudFormation or Terraform for managing cloud resources
• - Experience with MLOps is a huge plus (delivering, loading, and serving ML models and related infrastructure)
• - Hands-on experience with setting up and improving CI/CD pipelines
• - Proficiency with Python and, as a plus, compiled languages like C, Rust, or Go
• - 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 & familiarity with networking principles
• - Experience with NoSQL and relational databases, distributed systems, and caching solutions
• - Experience with any of the major public cloud formation: AWS (ideally), Azure, GCP
• - Experience collaborating in cross-functional teams
• - Excellent English communication skills
• - Enjoy helping others around you grow as developers and be successful
• - Pick up new ideas and technologies quickly, love learning and talking to others about them
• - Love to experiment and use data and customer feedback to drive decision-making

Benefits

• - Compensation: base range of 90-110k USD + stock options + work from home bonus
• - 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
• - Work with smart people who will help you grow and make a meaningful impact