Backend Engineer, Constructor.io
Personalization Team
$90-110k
+ Stock options + Work from home bonus
eCommerce product discovery solutions
Job no longer available
eCommerce product discovery solutions
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$90-110k
+ Stock options + Work from home bonus
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
- Excellent skills delivering & communicating business value
- Have Python experience
- Have experience with server-side coding and API design
- Have experience with relational databases, key-value database and distributed systems
- Have experience with building services based on the ML models
- Have worked at a high-traffic website with highly available and robust systems
- Experience with a public cloud like AWS, Azure or GCP
- Love designing and implementing new features
- Enjoy helping others around you grow as developers and be successful
- Can work independently
- Can pick up new ideas and technologies quickly and loves learning and talking to others about them
- Love to experiment and use data and customer feedback to drive decision-making
Desirable
- Experience with system architecture and design
- Experience shipping personalization & search (recommendation) systems to production
- Experience with MLOps
What the job involves
- The Personalization team, within the Machine Learning Chapter and Engineering Department, plays a central role in implementing algorithms that utilize personalization signals to optimize for business KPIs like revenue & conversions
- We focus on metrics over features, arming our ranking and recommendation algorithms with powerful personalization capabilities that bring value to customers in the way they care the most about
- The team consists of a mix of ML & product engineers owning & collaborating on multiple projects
- As a member of the Personalization team, you will use world-class analytical, engineering and machine learning techniques on big data to shape and scale our personalization algorithms
- Build and deploy robust ML systems / algorithms for personalized product discovery experiences
- Collaborate with technical and non-technical business partners to develop / update personalization features across Constructor product suite
- Build fast, robust and scalable services including our User History and User Profile API
- Participate in architectural discussions and optimize the system architecture of the Personalization domain
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.
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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 values
- We get to the right answer empathetically: We strive to get to the right answer, regardless of who proposed it. We make it easy for others to be able to accept our idea without losing face or hurting ego.
- We’re passionate in owning our work and making it have an impact: We care that what we create gets seen by the world. We ask for help, follow-up, hustle until it’s in front of users. We take initiative, even when we think someone else should do it. If we find something we don’t like, we make it better.
- We enjoy what we do: We love the problems we get to solve. Most people aren’t lucky enough to work on something this interesting. We create an environment that lets co-workers enjoy their work as much as we do.
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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