Senior Back End Engineer, you.com
Product
$150-270k
AI productivity platform
Open for applications
AI productivity platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$150-270k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make the world’s information useful for everyone through its privacy-first personalized search engine.
Role
Who you are
- If you’re ready to make a difference and help us revolutionize the way people search and work, we’d love to have you join us!
- We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who thrives in a collaborative environment and is passionate about building backend systems that power user-facing features
- Backend Development Expertise: Proven experience building and deploying REST/RPC services that integrate seamlessly with front-end and mobile platforms
- Collaboration Skills: Strong ability to work with product managers, designers, and engineers to deliver user-focused solutions
- Testing and Debugging: Proficient in writing unit and integration tests, with a focus on maintaining high-quality code
- Database Knowledge: Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, ensuring performant and scalable query patterns
- Problem-Solving Skills: Ability to debug and resolve live production issues quickly and effectively
- Communication Skills: Strong verbal and written communication skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
What the job involves
- We’re building a team of innovators, problem-solvers, and visionaries who are passionate about shaping the future of AI and technology
- At you.com, you’ll have the opportunity to work on impactful projects, collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry, and grow your career in an environment that values creativity, diversity, and curiosity
- In this role, you’ll work on designing and implementing backend services that directly support our AI-driven products, ensuring seamless integration with front-end and mobile platforms
- Your work will help shape the user experience for millions of people worldwide
- Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams: Work closely with product managers, front-end engineers, and mobile developers to design and implement backend services that meet product requirements
- Develop User-Focused Features: Build and maintain backend systems that power user-facing features, ensuring a seamless experience across platforms
- Support Front-End Integration: Ensure smooth communication between backend services and front-end/mobile applications
- Debug and Optimize Systems: Debug live production issues, write tests to prevent future issues, and optimize backend performance for user-facing services
- Iterate on Product Features: Rapidly prototype and refine backend systems based on user feedback and product requirements
- Contribute to Team Culture: Foster a collaborative and supportive team environment, emphasizing strong coding practices and thorough code reviews
Our take
Google has maintained its status as a household name for online search engines since the '90s. Since then, however, it has become rife with sponsored advertisements, privacy issues, and one-size-fits-all search results, showing a vast area of space for improvement.
You.com provides a privacy-first personalized search engine, allowing users to integrate apps and personal preferences into the browser extension to optimize their search results based on what they are looking for. The search engine also guarantees that search history and cookies will not be logged by the company, in addition to preventing websites and advertisers from tracking browsing habits.
Whilst the company's competition from the likes of Google, Bing, Yahoo, and other search engine giants is fierce, You.com shows great potential having served 1B queries and boasting millions of active users. With a 500% increase in ARR since January 2024 and a recent $560M Series B Funding round, the company is rapidly scaling, becoming a rising player in the AI and search space.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
33% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2024
$50m
SERIES B
Oct 2023
$2.9m
SERIES A
Total funding: $97.9m
Company benefits
- A remote-first work environment with hubs in California, NYC, and Canada that offer monthly in-person gatherings
- Unlimited PTO with 11 U.S. holidays observed and a week shutdown in December to rest and recharge
- Competitive health insurance plan, where 100% of the policyholder is covered and 75% for dependents
- 12 weeks of paid paternity leave in the US; additional time off is also considered
- 401k program, 3% match coming January 2025
- $500 work-from-home stipend to be used up to a year of your start date
- $1,200 / year Health & Wellness Allowance to support your personal goals
- In-person coworking weeks 1 to 2 times a year
- Chance to collaborate with a team at the forefront of AI research
Company HQ
University South, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Richard Socher
(Co-Founder & CEO)Experience as Chief Scientist of EVP for Salesforce from 2016 to 2020. Founder of AIX ventures since 2021.
Bryan McCann
(Co-Founder & CTO)Experience as a Course Assistant at Stanford University from 2014 to 2016. Lead Research Scientist for Salesforce from 2016 to 2020.
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