Backend Engineer, Constructor.io
Search Features & APIs
$80-110k
+ Stock options
Office located in Remote role in London
eCommerce product discovery solutions
Job no longer available
eCommerce product discovery solutions
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$80-110k
+ Stock options
Office located in Remote role in London
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help eCommerce and media site owners give their customers a better way to find products more quickly, more easily, and more intuitively.
Role
Who you are
- You're an engineer who loves solving problems, learning, and making people's lives easier
- You enjoy thinking about the product as a whole and developing features that work seamlessly and reliably
- You get satisfaction from building a scalable product that people love to use
- You enjoy jumping between different layers of the stack and you’re equipped with a wide range of tools and technologies
- You take pride in your reliable code and embrace automated testing as unequivocally good
- You are motivated to balance cutting edge technology with stability and robustness to build something truly useful
- You want to build things you can be proud of, and work with an international team of experienced, passionate engineers
- Have experience with server-side coding and API design
- Have worked at a high-traffic website and designed highly available and robust systems
- Have experience with relational databases and distributed systems
- Enjoy being part of the product development process and incorporating customer feedback into your solutions
- Love defining and implementing beautiful and inherently consistent Web APIs
- Enjoy working across the full stack, contributing to all layers of feature development
- Love designing and implementing new features
- Enjoy helping others around you grow as developers and be successful
- Can work independently
- Pick up new ideas and technologies quickly, love learning and talking to others about them
- Love to experiment and use data and customer feedback to drive decision making
What the job involves
- As a Backend Engineer in the Search team, you'll work closely with product to plan and deliver features that impact the whole stack, all the way from the search backend, to our APIs, to the customer dashboard
- You will be building rich product discovery experiences and developing features that define how users interact with search
- You'll help determine what technologies we use to make backend performance and database communication blazing fast, and you'll help craft testing strategies to make sure uptime is 100% and customers stay satisfied
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Online shopping has vastly increased the reach of stores and put a wealth of products at consumer’s fingertips. However, tedious searches are one cause for online carts to be abandoned before purchase. Constructor.io, founded in 2015, builds technology to counter the search element behind these unfinished purchases, with a powerful product discovery platform for eCommerce businesses.
eCommerce searching is generally poor, lagging behind the power of large search engines, in part due to low system intelligence. Constructor.io’s search employs AI, machine learning and natural language processing to return relevant results for search and browse functions, as well as for recommendations and autosuggest. A host of other novel search technologies have launched recently, but Constructor remains the leader in the space, with significant backing and high levels of growth.
Constructor.io already serves big-name customers including Sephora and Walmart’s Bonobos. And its raised impressive funding that it intends to use to expand operations and business reach.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2024
$25m
SERIES B
Sep 2021
$55m
SERIES A
Total funding: $86.1m
Company benefits
- Unlimited vacation time: We provide unlimited vacation time, unlimited sick time, and a minimum of 10 paid holidays every year. Also, take 3 mandatory weeks off per year!
- Company-Sponsored Health Coverage: Constructor pays for 99% of our United States team members’ medical, dental, and vision premiums
- Lifestyle Stipend Program: Constructor supports your optimal work-from-home setup. This includes a yearly Remote Work Stipend + one-time New Hire $500 Setup Stipend, as well as a company-issued Apple laptop
- Career Development Stipend: On top of our Lifestyle Stipend, Constructor also provides a Yearly Learning & Development $500 Stipend
- Choose Where You Live: Constructor is a 100% remote-first company. You can live and work from wherever you want
- Parental Leave: Constructor provides paid parental leave for any qualified team member
- 94% Team Member Retention Rate: Join a team where the grand majority of members choose to stay, thriving in a culture that values and supports your growth and success
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Eli Finkelshteyn
(Co-Founder & CEO)Experienced Data Scientist and Engineer. Ran Eli Does Data, a data science consulting firm. Has worked for Shutterstock and Tumblr.
Dan McCormick
(Co-Founder & CISO)Former Consultant at Content.Market. Worked at Shutterstock for over 8 years including as an Adviser in the CTO's Office. Previously founded PostPin, Trademark Safeguard and Particular Personals.
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