Staff Back End Engineer, you.com
$230-290k
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AI search infrastructure for enterprises
Job no longer available
AI search infrastructure for enterprises
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$230-290k
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help people move faster, think deeper, and do more.
Role
Who you are
- Technical Expertise: Proven experience building and deploying mission-critical REST/RPC services with a focus on scalability and performance
- Infrastructure Knowledge: Familiarity with Kubernetes (k8s), deployment pipelines, and debugging system-level issues
- Database Proficiency: Expertise in designing and maintaining scalable SQL and NoSQL databases
- Open Source Contributions: Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source projects is a plus
- Problem-Solving Skills: Ability to tackle complex technical challenges and deliver elegant, maintainable solutions
- Collaboration Skills: Strong communication and teamwork abilities to work effectively with cross-functional technical teams
What the job involves
- Are you passionate about building scalable architectures, improving platform performance, and contributing to cutting-edge technology
- We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to design and develop the foundational systems and platforms that power our LLM-based generative AI assistant
- In this role, you’ll focus on creating robust, secure, and scalable backend systems, improving infrastructure, and contributing to open-source projects that drive innovation
- Your work will directly impact the technology that millions of users rely on every day
- Architect and Build Scalable Systems: Design, build, and maintain backend systems and infrastructure that support web-scale AI-driven products
- Improve Platform Performance: Focus on scalability, reliability, and security to ensure our systems can handle millions of users seamlessly
- Contribute to Open Source: Work on open-source projects and integrate cutting-edge technologies into our platform
- Optimize Data Pipelines: Develop and maintain production databases (SQL and NoSQL) and ensure performant query patterns that scale effectively
- Eliminate Technical Debt: Refactor and improve existing systems to enhance maintainability and scalability
- Establish Best Practices: Help define architectural patterns and team practices that enable long-term growth and innovation
- Collaborate Across Teams: Work with infrastructure and DevOps teams to ensure robust deployment and monitoring strategies
Our take
The pressure for enterprises to adopt AI is mounting, but even with impressive advancements to the technology it can be difficult to implement effectively. Foundational models fail to meet the needs of enterprises, which require something they can more easily customise.
This is what you.com recognises and addresses, supplying solutions to empower its clients to build the artificial intelligence that best serves them. The company's enterprise AI product, combined with search and agent APIs and consulting, enables each business to adapt AI intelligently to its industry and aims.
Its a valuable proposition that has not gone unnoticed by the industry, with you.com raising a substantial amount of funding in 2025. This will be used to "build the infrastructure for the agentic era", as the company aims to support its clients into this next age of AI-empowered operations.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
33% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2025
$100m
SERIES C
Jun 2024
$50m
SERIES B
Total funding: $197.9m
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
SoMa, San Francisco, 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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