Senior Backend Engineer - AI Retrieval & Search

Menlo Ventures; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health coverage

401(k) Plan

Equity award

Flexible time off

Paid parental leave

Annual Company Retreat

WFH Equipment Stipend

Job summary

A leading AI technology company is seeking a talented Senior Software Engineer to design and develop core components of their innovative knowledge retrieval system. The ideal candidate will have over 6 years of experience in back-end development, a passion for AI technologies, and a strong background in diverse programming languages. This role is fully remote and offers competitive compensation with an equity award for full-time employees.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in shipping production-grade backends for large-scale systems.
• Experience in semantic search, vector databases, or traditional search engines.
• Expertise in major programming languages.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable components for knowledge retrieval systems.
• Develop optimized indexing pipelines for diverse data structures.
• Create backend services for hybrid retrieval and knowledge graph construction.

Skills

Architectural Depth

Data Engineering Savvy

Retrieval Intuition

Language Fluency in Go, Rust, C++, Java, or Python

Infrastructure familiarity

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Cloud-native architectures

Job description

A leading AI technology company is seeking a talented Senior Software Engineer to design and develop core components of their innovative knowledge retrieval system. The ideal candidate will have over 6 years of experience in back-end development, a passion for AI technologies, and a strong background in diverse programming languages. This role is fully remote and offers competitive compensation with an equity award for full-time employees.