Senior Backend Engineer - Search Features & APIs (SABR)

📋 Description

• Own the design and delivery of features and components in our services.
• Design and evolve public API endpoints with backward compatibility in mind, and contribute to
• Improve performance and reliability: find latency and failure hotspots, add the observability
• Take an active part in design and code review, and mentor mid-level engineers.
• Work with product, solutions/support, and other engineering teams to understand customer needs and
• Take part in on-call for the systems you own, and lead incident response and follow-through when

🎯 Requirements

• Solid experience building and operating backend services in production, ideally high-traffic or
• Extensive Python knowledge (our primary language).
• Hands-on experience with observability (metrics, logs, traces) and debugging performance issues in
• Experience designing and evolving public APIs that external customers depend on.
• Experience designing & implementing scalable service-oriented architectures.
• Track record of delivering projects end to end, including leading small efforts with other

🎁 Benefits

• Unlimited vacation time - we strongly encourage all of our employees 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 for every employee, refreshed each year
• Maternity & Paternity leave for qualified employees