Senior / Staff / Principal Backend ...

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior or Staff Backend Engineer to join our fully remote AI Search team. This is an end-to-end ownership role where you will build AI-assisted answers into a search product used by a large audience, spanning from initial design through production deployment.

• Build AI-assisted features including retrieval systems and prompting strategies with robust evaluation frameworks.
• Work across backend services written in Perl, Go, and Node.js.
• Own the full lifecycle: design, implementation, monitoring, and iteration.
• Mentor senior engineers to raise team standards.

Requirements

• 7+ years building backend systems for user-facing products.
• Hands-on experience with AI agent tooling (eval frameworks, RAG pipelines, prompt engineering).
• Fundamental understanding of complex data structures and algorithms.
• Strong proficiency in at least one language: Perl, Go, or Node.js.
• Demonstrated product acumen for making clear trade-offs based on user needs.