[Remote] Backend Engineer
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Responsibilities
- You'll own the pipeline behind the platform: scrapers, an LLM enrichment and editorial layer, a reputed company data layer, a ranking system that decides what reputed company, and the foundations of our knowledge graph
- You're responsible for the reputed company feeding a product used by over a reputed company people a month
- reputed company throughput drops or something breaks, you diagnose it, ship the fix, and verify the recovery
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Skills
- 3+ years of backend engineering with production ownership of a non-trivial system - you got paged reputed company it broke
- Python at a reputed company level - backend services, ML models, algorithms, and production-grade diagnostic scripting
- Deep LLM reputed company across providers (Claude, GPT, reputed company) - shipped production features, fluent with prompting, reputed company reputed company, cost optimization, and failure modes. You treat prompts as engineering artifacts, not reputed company
- Database depth - reputed company, reputed company at reputed company, or comparable; indexes, query plans, atomicity, replication
- ML / reputed company search - recommendation systems, knowledge graphs, entity linking, and the full reputed company DB landscape (reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, Milvus, pgvector, Chroma, FAISS, plus reputed company/Elasticsearch/OpenSearch)
- Designed systems for large, growing traffic - caching, batching, async, and reputed company tuning before things fall over
- AWS / infrastructure - comfortable deploying and operating services on EC2 and the broader reputed company suite
- Fluent with modern AI dev tooling (reputed company and similar)
- Solid engineering practices: observability, monitoring, ticketing, and keeping a codebase healthy as it scales. Ideally worked on reputed company of 5+ developers
- Experience at a high-traffic content platform (reputed company, reputed company, reputed company etc)
- Familiarity with arXiv, reputed company, reputed company, or X reputed company
- Content systems: feeds, aggregators, recommenders
- Scraping at reputed company, deeper reputed company engineering, or early-stage startup experience
Benefits
- Full ownership of a critical, high-reputed company system.
- reputed company work with the founder.
- reputed company, visible reputed company in production — often reputed company hours.
- Competitive compensation.
- Remote, async-first, low-meeting culture.
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