Backend Engineer

Constructor
Barcelona, Spain
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Compensation
€52,000.0 - €65,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

A/B Testing Amazon Web Services Data Analysis Code Review Data Infrastructure Database Queries Software Debugging Python (Programming Language) PostgreSQL Data Logging Apache Spark Backend
+6 more
Fastapi Pyspark Sentry Plotly Cloudwatch Databricks

Job description

This is primarily a backend role (Python services + data-heavy systems). You’ll occasionally work in the Dash UI and contribute to Spark jobs, but those are not the main focus. We care about correctness, observability, and product usability more than complex infrastructure. Tech: Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Plotly Dash, PySpark/Databricks, AWS, CloudWatch, Sentry (Spark work is ~5-10% - we don’t expect you to be a data engineer or own the data platform.)

What you’ll do

  • Build and maintain backend services for experiment assignment, logging, and report generation
  • Improve scalability, performance, and reliability of experiment reporting pipelines
  • Add product-facing features to the UI to help users launch experiments and interpret results
  • Take technical ownership of projects: shape solutions, break down work, and drive execution with the team
  • Participate in a weekly on-call rotation (investigating occasional issues and answering internal questions) You’ll collaborate closely with Search/Recommendations engineers, ML/DS partners, and customer-facing teams when needed. This role does not require frequent direct customer calls.

Requirements

Must-have

  • Strong experience building and owning production backend services in Python
  • Experience with monitoring, alerting, and debugging user-facing systems
  • Strong SQL skills and confidence working with data-heavy systems (metrics, logging, analytics)
  • Ability to ship maintainable software (tests, code review, incremental delivery) Mindset

  • You take ownership: you can turn ambiguous problems into an executable technical plan
  • You care about building systems people trust and rely on Nice-to-have

  • Experience with experimentation systems, metrics platforms, or A/B testing workflows
  • Experience with PySpark and/or Databricks
  • We don’t expect you to already be an expert in experimentation methodology - but we do expect strong backend fundamentals and the ability to ramp up effectively in a data-heavy domain Location / Time Zones

  • We’re a distributed team. Preferred time zones are UTC+1 to UTC+7, but we’re flexible

Benefits & conditions

  •  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-$110k 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

About the company

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 Experiments team at Constructor builds an experimentation platform: traffic allocation, exposure logging, metric computation, statistical analysis, and a UI for launching experiments and interpreting results. It’s used both internally and by customers running experiments on production traffic. We’re scaling customer experimentation usage and investing in making experiments faster, more reliable, and easier to interpret. Unlike boxed experimentation tools, our platform has to support a wide range of customer integrations, traffic patterns, and industry constraints - which makes the engineering problems unusually real-world and high-leverage. Team: 3 Software Engineers, 1 Data Analyst, an Engineering Manager, and a Product Manager., Air Apps Barcelona, Barcelona Volver a la Ășltima bĂșsqueda Trabajos ) Trabajos en fabricaciĂłn y manufactura ) BackEnd Engineer: Experiments ( volver a la Ășltima bĂșsqueda Recibir ofertas similares por correo electrĂłnico No gracias, llĂ©vame a la oferta de empleo Al crear una alerta, aceptas nuestros TĂ©rminos y condiciones y PolĂ­tica de privacidad, y el uso de cookies. Inscribirse en esta oferta

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