Staff Backend Engineer – Search Features, APIs

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $110k - $130k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🔙 Backend Engineer

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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

• Own the technical direction of one or more services, including architecture, performance, and reliability • Lead design of new systems and public APIs and evolve existing ones as traffic and feature scope grow • Raise the engineering bar through design and code review • Mentor mid and senior engineers into owning bigger scopes • Partner with product, engineering teams, and solutions/support to shape what is built and represent search constraints and trade-offs honestly • Participate in on-call for owned systems • Lead incident response and follow-through when systems break

🎯 Requirements

• Substantial experience building and operating high-traffic, low-latency backend services in production • Extensive Python knowledge • Experience with observability and performance work in live systems • Experience designing and evolving public APIs that external customers depend on • Experience designing and implementing scalable service-oriented architectures • Track record of leading projects spanning multiple engineers and quarters • Influence without authority and willingness to change position when someone has a better argument • Clear written communication, including design docs, RFCs, and postmortems • Good judgment about trade-offs and scope • Comfort with ambiguity and loosely defined problems • Ownership extending past merge to how the system behaves in production • Nice to have: Experience with AWS • Nice to have: Background in search, ranking, information retrieval, or e-commerce product discovery • Nice to have: Exposure to AI/LLM-facing infrastructure, including MCP or agent tooling

🏖️ Benefits

• Unlimited vacation time; employees are strongly encouraged to take at least 3 weeks per year • Fully remote team; choose where you live • Work from home stipend • 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 • Stock options offered in addition to the base salary • Regular team offsites to connect and collaborate