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Senior Back End Engineer

You.com · San Francisco, CA · Yesterday
RemoteRemoteEngineering$200k–$250k/yrFull-time

About the role

Are you passionate about building scalable architectures, improving platform performance, and contributing to cutting-edge technology? We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to design and develop the foundational systems and platforms that power our LLM-based generative AI assistant.

Responsibilities

  • Arcitect and Build Scalable Systems: Design, build, and maintain backend systems and infrastructure that support web-scale AI-driven products.
  • Improve Platform Performance: Focus on scalability, reliability, and security to ensure our systems can handle millions of users seamlessly.
  • Contribute to Open Source: Work on open-source projects and integrate cutting-edge technologies into our platform.
  • Optimize Data Pipelines: Develop and maintain production databases (SQL and NoSQL) and ensure performant query patterns that scale effectively.
  • Eliminate Technical Debt: Refactor and improve existing systems to enhance maintainability and scalability.
  • Establish Best Practices: Help define architectural patterns and team practices that enable long-term growth and innovation.
  • Collaborate Across Teams: Work with infrastructure and DevOps teams to ensure robust deployment and monitoring strategies.

Qualifications

  • Technical Expertise: Proven experience building and deploying mission-critical REST/RPC services with a focus on scalability and performance.
  • Infrastructure Knowledge: Familiarity with Kubernetes (k8s), deployment pipelines, and debugging system-level issues.
  • Database Proficiency: Expertise in designing and maintaining scalable SQL and NoSQL databases.
  • Open Source Contributions: Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source projects is a plus.
  • Problem-Solving Skills: Ability to tackle complex technical challenges and deliver elegant, maintainable solutions.
  • Collaboration Skills: Strong communication and teamwork abilities to work effectively with cross-functional technical teams.

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