Senior Backend Engineer: Offsite Search Optimisation

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

Regular team offsites

Job summary

Constructor.io is seeking a backend engineer to maintain and scale production services written in Python. You will work on data-heavy systems handling analytics, metrics, and logging, and collaborate with product and data teams across a fully remote setup.

We value ownership, tests, and incremental delivery; you’ll implement monitoring and alerting, review code, and ship reliable software. Compensation includes base salary and stock options, plus generous benefits and remote-first culture.

Qualifications

• Strong experience building and owning production backend services in Python.
• Strong SQL skills and confidence working with data-heavy systems (analytics, metrics, logging).
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, and debugging user-facing systems.
• Ability to ship maintainable software (tests, code review, incremental delivery).
• Nice-to-have: SEO fundamentals, APIs & auth (OAuth2, GA4) and working with non-structured data.

Skills

Python backend

SQL

Monitoring & debugging

Testing & CI

Tools

OAuth2

GA4

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.

Requirements

• Strong experience building and owning production backend services in Python

• Strong SQL skills and confidence working with data-heavy systems (analytics, metrics, logging)

• Experience with monitoring, alerting, and debugging user-facing systems

• Ability to ship maintainable software (tests, code review, incremental delivery)

Nice to have

• Knowledge of SEO fundamentals

• Experience with APIs & auth (OAuth2, GA4 and Google Search Analytics API)

• Experiente working with non-structured data (referrers, canonical URLs, page types)

• Experience building data integrations between products

• Understanding of ETL/ELT workflows on PySpark

Benefits

• Unlimited vacation time - we strongly encourage all employees to 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 - refreshed each year for every employee

• 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.

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