Backend Engineer: Retail Media
Constructor6 months ago
Remote, EMEASenior
Base Salary
$80k - $120k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, deliver, deploy, and maintain backend web services using Python and FastAPI.
- Write AWS CloudFormation infrastructure scripts and maintain Jenkins jobs and GitHub Actions workflows.
- Set up service observability, monitoring metrics, and alerting with Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty, and AWS CloudWatch.
- Implement CI/CD pipelines and separate stability testing.
- Collaborate with technical and non-technical business partners to develop and update functionality.
- Integrate services with data warehouses and other systems while managing result ordering.
- Communicate with stakeholders within and outside the team.
Requirements
- Strong computer science background and familiarity with networking principles.
- Experience designing, developing, and maintaining high-load real-time services.
- Proficiency with infrastructure as code tools such as CloudFormation or Terraform.
- Hands-on experience setting up and improving CI/CD pipelines.
- Proficiency in Python and server-side web service development.
- Good understanding of API design principles.
- Experience setting up and managing observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana and integrating alerting systems such as PagerDuty.
- Familiarity with service-oriented architecture and communication protocols such as protobuf.
- Experience with NoSQL and relational databases, distributed systems, and caching solutions, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, or Athena.
- Experience with a major public cloud provider: AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience collaborating in cross-functional teams and excellent English communication skills.
- Previous experience building ad tech solutions is ideal.
Benefits
- Fully remote work arrangement with freedom to choose where to live.
- Unlimited vacation time, with at least three weeks per year encouraged.
- Work-from-home stipend for home-office setup.
- Apple laptop provided to new employees.
- Annual training and development budget.
- Maternity and paternity leave for qualified employees.
- Regular team offsites.
- Required collaboration overlap from 11:00–16:00 UTC.
- Base salary of $80k–$120k USD, plus stock options.
Tech Stack
AWSAzureClickHouseFastAPIGitHub ActionsGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJenkinsMySQLPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonTerraform
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About Constructor
Constructor builds an AI-powered search and product discovery platform for ecommerce retailers, marketplaces, and distributors, delivered as enterprise SaaS. Its tools power on-site search, browse, recommendations, and shopping agents to optimize conversions and merchandising outcomes. Founded in 2019 by Eli Finkelshteyn and Dan McCormick, the San Francisco–based, privately held company counts brands such as Sephora, Under Armour, and Petco as customers and raised a Series B in 2024.