Core Backend Engineer - Remote, Stock Options, Large-Scale

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

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited vacation time

Fully remote team

Work from home stipend

Apple laptops provided

Training and development budget

Maternity & Paternity leave

Stock options

Regular team offsites

Job summary

Constructor.io is hiring a backend engineer for its next-generation ecommerce search and discovery platform. The role focuses on building and maintaining scalable backend systems and infrastructure across a globally distributed service.

You will work on performance-critical code, deployment automation, and observability while collaborating with a smart, ownership-driven Core team to deliver reliable, high-scale solutions. Remote-friendly with a strong culture of learning and impact.

Qualifications

• Strong foundation in computer science (algorithms, data structures, concurrency, systems design).
• Experience building and scaling high-traffic backend systems.
• Experience designing/operating backend infrastructure (deployment, capacity planning, observability).
• Ability to work across stack layers from performance-critical code to production operations.
• Eagerness to learn new technologies in a fast-moving, large-scale environment.
• Collaborative, ownership-driven team contributor.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain the core infrastructure and services powering the product.
• Ensure performance, reliability, and uptime across a globally distributed platform.
• Contribute to high-availability backend systems and production operations.

Skills

Algorithms & data structures

Backend design

Distributed systems

Performance optimization

Team collaboration

Tools

AWS

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Constructor.io is hiring a backend engineer for its next-generation ecommerce search and discovery platform. The role focuses on building and maintaining scalable backend systems and infrastructure across a globally distributed service.

You will work on performance-critical code, deployment automation, and observability while collaborating with a smart, ownership-driven Core team to deliver reliable, high-scale solutions. Remote-friendly with a strong culture of learning and impact.