Backend Engineer: Ranking

As a member of the Ranking team, you will improve the e-commerce experience for hundreds of millions of users across the world by designing, delivering & maintaining high-load real-time web services in close collaboration with other great engineers from the Ranking team. The job can consist of, but is not limited to:

• Build, deploy, and support robust high-load machine learning-based real-time systems for search and browse experiences.
• Collaborate with technical and non-technical business partners to develop and update ranking functionalities
• Develop Ranking Platform for internal users (DS and MLE mostly)
• Optimize current ranking service performance to process requests faster
• Optimize signals delivery and retrieval (aka Feature Store) for machine learning model inference
• Communicate with stakeholders within and outside the team, * Work with smart and empathetic people who will help you grow and make a meaningful impact.
• Regular team offsite events to connect and collaborate.
• Fully remote team - choose where you live.
• ️ Unlimited vacation time - we strongly encourage all of our employees take at least 3 weeks per year.
• ️ 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 for every employee, refreshed each year.
• Maternity & Paternity leave for qualified employees.
• Base salary: $80k-$120K USD, depending on knowledge, skills, experience, and interview results
• Stock options - offered in addition to the base salary

• Experience in designing, developing & maintaining high-load distributed real-time services (in cloud)
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like CloudFormation or Terraform for managing cloud resources.
• Experience with MLOps is a huge plus (delivering, loading, and serving ML models and related infrastructure)
• Hands-on experience with setting up and improving CI/CD pipelines
• Proficiency with Python and, as a plus, compiled languages like C, Rust, or Go.
• Experience in server-side coding for web services, and a good understanding of API design principles.
• Experience with NoSQL and relational databases, distributed systems, and caching solutions.
• Experience with any of the major public cloud formation: AWS (ideally), Azure, GCP

Soft skills:

• Experience collaborating in cross-functional teams.
• Excellent English communication skills.

Launched in 2019, Constructor is an AI-first ecommerce search and discovery platform that helps shoppers find the right products at the right time and enables leading global e-commerce brands to drive meaningful revenue and conversion gains.