Backend Engineer

🕒 August 27

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

💵 $165k - $190k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Product Genius

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2022

🛍️ eCommerce

☁️ SaaS

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

eCommerce • SaaS • Artificial Intelligence

Product Genius is an AI personalization engine for e-commerce stores, especially Shopify, that provides personalized product recommendations, content selection (questions & answers, reviews, video), conversational AI search, and a TikTok-style feed algorithm to increase revenue per session. It installs via the Shopify App Store, claims an average +20% revenue per session (and A/B tested lifts higher), offers a 15-day free trial, and targets merchants with Pro and Enterprise plans including APIs and headless integration, ADA/GDPR compliance, and integrations for ads and content. The product continuously learns from shopper interactions (swipes, clicks, linger, scroll) to present optimal recommendations and automates content choices and site design/development improvements. It is marketed as low-effort (under 10 minutes to set up) and high-impact for increasing conversion and revenue.

📋 Description

• Build and maintain backend systems supporting a real-time learning AI • Build and maintain APIs and data pipelines connecting live user and merchant behavior to self-learning systems • Contribute directly to the real-time learning engine • Champion AI-assisted coding, streamlined CI/CD, and stronger QA practices • Own production deployments, investigate logs and traces, identify root causes, and improve testing • Make strategic decisions shaping core architecture • Collaborate with AI researchers, software engineers, sales, and marketing teams • Manage multiple parallel agentic coding sessions

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building and maintaining production backend systems • Hands-on daily experience with agentic AI coding tools, comfortable managing multiple parallel sessions • Experience building APIs and data pipelines connecting live systems to downstream analytics or ML systems • Comfortable picking up any language; typically Python, SQL, TypeScript, and React • Able to rapidly become productive in a complex, unfamiliar codebase • Collaborative in shared context and problem framing; self-sufficient at the code level • Strong math or analytical background • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent experience • Exposure to Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and GCP • Experience with ClickHouse queries and optimization • Comfortable in a fast-moving startup environment • E-commerce industry knowledge or empathy • Experience collaborating cross-functionally with sales and marketing, including hands-on customer integrations • Must not require Product Genius to sponsor a visa, as the company is not sponsoring visas at this time

🏖️ Benefits

• Stock options • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance • 401k with matching contributions • Work-at-home office reimbursement benefit • Generous paid time off