Senior Backend Engineer: Attribute Enrichment

Constructor
UK
1 day ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Compensation
£80,000.0 - £120,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English

Tech stack

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Amazon Web Services Software Quality Databases Continuous Integration Relational Databases Distributed Systems Github Python (Programming Language) Networking Basics NoSQL Prometheus
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Grafana Caching Backend Pytest Integration Tests Information Technology Cloudwatch Pagerduty Jenkins Programming Languages

Job description

As a Backend Engineer in the Attribute Enrichment team, you will improve the e-commerce experience for hundreds of millions of users across the world by designing, building, and maintaining scalable services that deliver enriched items, metadata, and attributes to end users. You’ll work across key services like Attribute Enrichment and Badges, managing a dedicated database and developing APIs that integrate with Search and Browse.

You will collaborate closely with ML engineers to develop and optimize the Attribute Enrichment service, ensuring its scalability, reliability, and performance. You will build the CI/CD and observability systems from scratch, as well as maintain and improve existing mature systems.

  • Build a new service to deliver ML-generated enriched attributes to our customers
  • Design a high-throughput, low-latency Badges service for heavy traffic
  • Develop Constructor’s Attribute Enrichment product and Badges product features
  • Deploy high-available services in the cloud and implement CI/CD pipelines following best industry standards (AWS, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
  • Set up service observability, monitoring metrics, and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty, AWS CloudWatch)
  • Work with a dedicated database to manage enriched items, their metadata, and derived attributes for our customer dashboard application, ensuring data consistency, performance, and availability for downstream services and APIs
  • Write and maintain unit, integration, and end-to-end tests for backend services to ensure code quality and service reliability

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience
  • Strong computer science background & familiarity with networking principles
  • Proficiency in Python and backend development patterns
  • Experience in designing, developing & maintaining highload real-time services and public APIs
  • Experience with NoSQL and relational databases, distributed systems, and caching solutions would be a plus
  • Experience with any compiled programming language (e.g. Go, Rust) would be a plus
  • Experience writing unit and integration tests for backend services using frameworks such as Pytest, unittest, or equivalent
  • Experience collaborating in cross-functional teams
  • Excellent English communication skills

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-$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

About the company

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.

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