Senior Backend Engineer (Remote)

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Backend Engineer (Remote)

• Focus: Backend functional projects across privacy-first product objectives

• Stack: Perl (v5), Go, Node.js

Description

You will lead complex backend projects in the Backend Functional Team, writing pragmatic, performant, testable code. Responsibilities include solving product issues for an all-in-one privacy solution and, over time, mentoring engineers. Recent work includes integrating AI-assisted answers into Search, improving Duck.ai, and building data processing pipelines to maintain search relevancy.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional backend experience building systems for consumer-facing products

• Ability to reason about technical tradeoffs in terms of user impact

• Familiarity with AI agent tooling: evaluation frameworks, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering

• Strong understanding of complex data structures and algorithms

• Data-driven analytical skills for decision-making, stakeholder alignment, and experiment-oriented delivery

• Solid project management abilities

• Excellent written and verbal communication

• Experience leading and mentoring experienced engineers

Benefits

• Transparent compensation by professional level and global region, plus stock options

• Paid parental leave

• Office setup and co-working allowances

• US-based team members may be eligible for company-sponsored health benefits (eligibility is limited to the US)