Backend Engineer: Retail Media

Constructor; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited vacation

Fully remote team

Work from home stipend

Apple laptops provided

Training and development budget

Maternity & Paternity leave

Stock options

Team offsites

Job summary

Constructor is a U.S.-based, remote-friendly company building a next-generation ecommerce search and discovery platform. The Retail Media team designs backend services and data integrations to optimize ad visibility and analytics.

This Senior Engineer role focuses on delivering web services, observability, and scalable infrastructure in a fully remote, international collaboration model. You will design, build, and maintain Python-based services, implement CI/CD, and work with

Qualifications

• Strong CS background and networking fundamentals.
• Experience designing and maintaining high-load real-time services.
• Proficiency with IaC tools for cloud resources.
• Hands-on CI/CD pipeline experience.
• Proficiency in Python and backend web services.
• Observability setup with Prometheus, Grafana, and alerting.

Responsibilities

• Design, deliver, and maintain web services in collaboration with engineers.
• Build/deploy/support services using Python and FastAPI.
• Write IaC scripts and CI/CD tooling following industry standards.
• Set up monitoring, metrics, and alerts with Prometheus, Grafana, and PagerDuty.
• Collaborate with partners to develop and update functionalities.

Skills

Python

Networking principles

High-load real-time services

English communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

AWS CloudFormation

Terraform

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Prometheus

Grafana

PagerDuty

CloudWatch

protobuf

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Job description

About Us

Constructor is the next-generation platform for search and discovery in ecommerce, built to explicitly optimize for metrics like revenue, conversion rate, and profit. Our search engine is entirely invented in-house utilizing transformers and generative LLMs, and we use its core and personalization capabilities to power everything from search itself to recommendations to shopping agents. Engineering is by far our largest department, and we've built our proprietary engine to be the best on the market, having never lost an A/B test to a competitive technology. We're passionate about maintaining this and work on the bleeding edge of AI to do so.

Out of necessity, our engine is built for extreme scale and powers over 1 billion queries every day across 150 languages and roughly 100 countries. It is used by some of the biggest ecommerce companies in the world like Sephora, Under Armour, and Petco.

We're a passionate team who love solving problems and want to make our customers’ and coworkers’ lives better. We value empathy, openness, curiosity, continuous improvement, and are excited by metrics that matter. We believe that empowering everyone in a company to do what they do best can lead to great things.

Constructor is a U.S. based company that has been in the market since 2019. It was founded by Eli Finkelshteyn and Dan McCormick who still lead the company today.

About the Team

The Retail Media team is building a platform for connecting ecommerce retailers and brands. In a nutshell, retail media is the product that allows a brand to buy a placement within our customer’s search, browse, recommendations, collections, or quizzes results. A comprehensive retail media platform integrates seamlessly with online retailers, offering advanced targeting, bidding, and analytics capabilities. This platform aims to enhance ad visibility, optimize ad placement, and provide robust performance analytics. We're a passionate team of cross-functional engineers who love challenges and want to make people’s lives better. We value openness, curiosity, continuous improvement, and great code. We believe that empowering everyone in a company to do what they think is best can lead to great things.

The Retail Media team is new and looking for Senior engineers who will help us build backend services, integrate with data warehouse and other services managing results order, and more.

About the Job

The primary focus of this job is to design, deliver & maintain web services in close collaboration with other engineers.

• Build / deploy / support services using Python and FastAPI

• Write AWS CloudFormation scripts, Jenkins jobs, Github actions following best industry standards

• Set up service observability, monitoring metrics, and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty, AWS CloudWatch)

• Implement CI/CD pipelines and separate stability testing

• Collaborate with technical and non-technical business partners to develop / update functionalities

• Communicate with stakeholders within and outside the team

Requirements

• Strong computer science background & familiarity with networking principles.

• Experience in designing, developing & maintaining highload real-time services.

• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like CloudFormation or Terraform for managing cloud resources.

• Hands-on experience with setting up and improving CI/CD pipelines.

• Proficiency in Python.

• Experience in server-side coding for web services, and a good understanding of API design principles.

• Skilled in setting up and managing observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and integrating alert systems like PagerDuty.

• Familiarity with Service-Oriented Architecture, knowledge of communication protocols like protobuf.

• Experience with NoSQL and relational databases, distributed systems, and caching solutions (MySQL/PostgreSQL, ClickHouse/Athena).

• Experience with any of the major public cloud service providers: AWS, Azure, GCP.

• Experience collaborating in cross-functional teams.

• Excellent English communication skills.

• Ideal candidate has previous experience building ad tech solutions.

• We're looking for someone who can overlap with _ 11:00-16:00 UTC _ — to keep collaboration smooth across time zones.

Benefits

• Unlimited vacation time - we strongly encourage all of our employees take at least 3 weeks per year

• Fully remote team - choose where you live

• Work from home stipend! We want you to have the resources you need to set up your home office

• Apple laptops provided for new employees

• Training and development budget for every employee, refreshed each year

• Maternity & Paternity leave for qualified employees

• Work with smart people who will help you grow and make a meaningful impact

• Base salary: $80k-$120k USD, depending on knowledge, skills, experience, and interview results

• Stock options - offered in addition to the base salary

• Regular team offsites to connect and collaborate

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Constructor

At Constructor.io we are committed to cultivating a work environment that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive. As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome individuals of all backgrounds and provide equal opportunities to all applicants regardless of their education, diversity of opinion, race, color, religion, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status or affiliation in any other protected group.

Studies have shown that women and people of color may be less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every one of the qualifications listed. Our primary interest is in finding the best candidate for the job. We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet all of our listed qualifications.