Staff Backend Engineer - Search & Discovery APIs (Remote)

Constructor; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 110,000 - 130,000; 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

Regular team offsites

Job summary

Constructor is seeking a staff-level engineer to own systems end-to-end, building high-traffic, low-latency Python services and guiding teams through complex architectural decisions. You will shape public APIs, drive performance, and contribute to reliability in a fully remote setup.

Join a distributed team that values ownership beyond merge, mentoring, and thoughtful trade-offs. Competitive salary and stock options accompany a strong focus on impact and growth.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience building and operating high-traffic, low-latency backend services in production.
• Extensive Python knowledge (our primary language).
• Experience with observability and performance work in live systems.
• Experience designing and evolving public APIs that external customers depend on.
• Experience designing & implementing scalable service-oriented architectures.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction of one or more of our services - architecture, performance, and reliability.
• Lead design of new systems and public APIs, and the evolution of existing ones as traffic and feature scope grow.
• Raise the engineering bar through design and code review, and mentor mid and senior engineers into owning bigger scopes.
• Partner with product, other engineering teams, and solutions/support to shape what we build and to represent search constraints and trade-offs honestly.
• Take part in on-call for the systems you own, and lead incident response and follow-through when things break.

Skills

Python

Backend architecture

Performance optimization

Public APIs

Low-latency systems

Mentoring engineers

Tools

AWS

Job description

Constructor is seeking a staff-level engineer to own systems end-to-end, building high-traffic, low-latency Python services and guiding teams through complex architectural decisions. You will shape public APIs, drive performance, and contribute to reliability in a fully remote setup.

Join a distributed team that values ownership beyond merge, mentoring, and thoughtful trade-offs. Competitive salary and stock options accompany a strong focus on impact and growth.