Backend Engineer: Ranking (Remote)

Description

About the Team

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.

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

What you’ll do

Design, build, and maintain high-load distributed real-time services in cloud environments. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve ranking functionalities and internal tools. Optimize performance and signal delivery for ML model inference. Communicate with stakeholders to align on requirements and deliverables.

Requirements

Hard skills:

• 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.

Benefits

• 🧠 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