Senior Backend Engineer, Qloo
Platform
$145-165k
AI-powered recommendation API
Open for applications
AI-powered recommendation API
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$145-165k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To demystify the intricacies of global tastes and preferences.
Role
Who you are
- Strong experience with TypeScript, Node.js, and Express
- Solid AWS infrastructure expertise (ECS, VPC networking, IAM, etc.)
- Experience with Terraform (or other infrastructure-as-code tools)
- SQL expertise, with Postgres preferred
- Experience with Python for scripting or data workflows
- A proven ability to design and deliver backend systems at scale
What the job involves
- Reporting to the VP of Platform Engineering, you’ll collaborate closely with a team of 5-7 engineers who specialize in backend systems, scaling, resilience, API coding and management
- Our team culture is highly collaborative and supportive, with everyone committed to raising the technical bar and delivering for our world-class clients
- In this role, you will have a direct impact on scaling, modernizing, and implementing our backend platform
- You’ll work on high-impact projects such as introducing and coding microservices, enhancing observability, and driving performance and reliability across our APIs and data pipelines
- You’ll play a key role in defining best practices and implementation details as we evolve our API gateway and containerized infrastructure
- You will also implement features to unlock new capabilities for our clients, some of the most recognizable companies in the world, powering experiences that reach millions of users
- Building, optimizing, and maintaining backend services and APIs with a focus on performance and reliability
- Developing and maintaining internal tools, observability systems (logging, telemetry, metrics), and data pipelines
- Taking on varied technical challenges as priorities shift—whether that's improving CI/CD workflows, enhancing security posture, or architecting new systems
- Collaborate closely with a cross-functional engineering team of 6–7 engineers on delivering microservices and backend infrastructure improvements
- Contributing to infrastructure and deployment strategies using AWS and Terraform
- Championing best practices in testing, documentation, and automation
- Mentoring teammates and providing technical leadership for complex backend systems
Our take
Powered by AI, Qloo is aiming to understand taste and cultural correlations. While giants like Spotify, Expedia and Netflix dominate their sectors, they inadvertently create "data silos", where valuable information remains isolated. A unified system, however, could help understand and predict diverse personal tastes across various domains.
To confront this, Qloo provides companies with AI-generated correlation data spanning numerous cultural and entertainment domains. Leveraging its platform, a user's taste in one category or genre can seamlessly inform recommendations in another, leading to more personalized experiences. For example, Starbucks is using Qloo to create in-store music playlists tailored to specific neighborhoods, enhancing customer engagement.
With an influx in funding over 2023 and 2024, Qloo is now introducing an accessible self-service interface, aiding small and mid-sized enterprises in charting consumer and taste analytics. Additionally, it has introduced the "multi-person recommendation AI", capable of matching profiles based on individual preferences stored in its database, which further solidifies its position as a leader in personalized recommendation solutions.
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Company benefits
- Champion your health: We offer 100% health insurance coverage, with the ability to join group dental and vision for a nominal fee.
- Invest in your future: Qloo’s competitive 4% 401K matching program helps you build a financial foundation for the years ahead.
- Generous PTO: With 20 days of PTO and 10+ annual company holidays, we encourage taking time to rest and investing in your life outside of work.
- Thrive in Soho: Our sun-lit, spacious office in Soho boasts standing desks, team lunches every Thursday, monthly outings, and a tight-knit community of hard workers.
- Parental Leave: Whether you’re welcoming a child through birth or adoption, Qloo supports all new parents with three months of paid parental leave.
- Ownership Mentality: We provide stock options to all positions, ensuring that everyone, regardless of level, has a stake in our success and shares in our achievements.
Company HQ
SoHo, New York, NY
Leadership
Alex Elias
(Founder & CEO)Previously served as a Principal at APE Capital for 4 years before founding Qloo in 2012.
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