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Backend Engineer

Posted 2 Days Ago
Remote
15 Locations
Mid level
Remote
15 Locations
Mid level
As a Backend Engineer, you will develop backend features for a web app, improving the system design and learning various technologies. Your contributions will significantly impact user experience.
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THE ROLE

As a foundational member of our engineering team, you'll do all backend work to help ship new features for our web app.  

We have a frequent cadence of shipping new features and a close connection to our market.  With 900k monthly active users spending hundreds of thousands of hours on the platform, each contribution and feature you ship will have a meaningful impact for the users.

Since we're a startup, you'll have to be willing to get your hands dirty with (and learn) lots of technologies across the backend stack: API design, data engineering, algorithms, startup engineering, analytics, monitoring, web crawling, etc. as well as the frontend stack (it's fine to not have any frontend experience starting out).

 

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE

  • 3+ years of experience with backend engineering

  • Clean simple code, even when solving complex problems

  • Good systems design

  • Ability to learn new tech quickly

  • Enjoyable to work with

TECHNOLOGY STACK

  • Python, PostgreSQL, FastAPI, Redis, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Tailwind, AWS, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Pinecone, OpenAI

 EXAMPLE PROJECTS

  • Use an LLM to identify references to other sections in the text of the law

  • Improve and migrate our data model for the content we host

  • Retrieve semi-structured data from various online sources and automate the structuring of the data

  • Improve the evaluation framework for our search engine

Job Type: Full-Time

Location: 100% remote

US-based comp range*: $100k-$165k

Latin America-based comp range*: $75k-$125k (USD)

Canada-based comp range*: $90k-$150k (USD)


* Plus equity (cost of living agnostic)

Top Skills

AWS
Fastapi
Kubernetes
Next.Js
Openai
Pinecone
Postgres
Prometheus
Python
React
Redis
Tailwind
Typescript

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