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Constructor

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2015

☁️ SaaS

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 $25M Series B - Constructor on 2024-06

SaaS • Artificial Intelligence • eCommerce

Constructor is an AI-native, API-first platform that provides product search and discovery solutions optimized for e-commerce. The company offers a commerce reasoning engine and a suite of features — search, autosuggest, personalized recommendations, AI shopping agents, attribute enrichment, retail media, and cross-channel discovery — to help retailers and enterprises deliver personalized discovery experiences across onsite and offsite touchpoints. Constructor positions itself as a specialist in product discovery for both B2C and B2B retail, integrating with existing tech stacks and emphasizing transparent, explainable AI for merchandising and conversion optimization.

📋 Description

• 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

🎯 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.

🏖️ 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 • 🛋️ 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 • 👪 Maternity & Paternity leave for qualified employees • 🧠 Work with smart people who will help you grow and make a meaningful impact • 💵 Base salary: $80k–$120k USD, depending on knowledge, skills, experience, and interview results • 📈 Stock options - offered in addition to the base salary • 🎉 Regular team offsites to connect and collaborate