Backend Engineer, Constructor.io
Retail Media
+ Stock options
eCommerce product discovery solutions
Open for applications
eCommerce product discovery solutions
201-500 employees
Open for applications
+ Stock options
201-500 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
- Strong computer science background & familiarity with networking principles
- Experience in designing, developing & maintaining highload real-time services
- Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like CloudFormation or Terraform for managing cloud resources
- Hands-on experience with setting up and improving CI/CD pipelines
- Proficiency in Python
- Experience in server-side coding for web services, and a good understanding of API design principles
- Skilled in setting up and managing observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and integrating alert systems like PagerDuty
- Familiarity with Service-Oriented Architecture, knowledge of communication protocols like protobuf
- Experience with NoSQL and relational databases, distributed systems, and caching solutions (MySQL/PostgreSQL, ClickHouse/Athena)
- Experience with any of the major public cloud service providers: AWS, Azure, GCP
- Experience collaborating in cross-functional teams
- Excellent English communication skills
- Ideal candidate has previous experience building ad tech solutions
What the job involves
- The Retail Media team is building a platform for connecting e-commerce retailers and brands
- In a nutshell, retail media is the product that allows a brand to buy a placement within our customer’s search, browse, recommendations, collections, or quizzes results
- A comprehensive retail media platform integrates seamlessly with online retailers, offering advanced targeting, bidding, and analytics capabilities
- This platform aims to enhance ad visibility, optimize ad placement, and provide robust performance analytics. We're a passionate team of cross-functional engineers who love challenges and want to make people’s lives better
- We value openness, curiosity, continuous improvement, and great code. We believe that empowering everyone in a company to do what they think is best can lead to great things
- The Retail Media team is new and looking for Senior engineers who will help us build backend services, integrate with data warehouse and other services managing results order, and more
- The primary focus of this job is to design, deliver & maintain web services in close collaboration with other engineers
- Build / deploy / support services using Python and FastAPI
- Write AWS CloudFormation scripts, Jenkins jobs, Github actions following best industry standards
- Set up service observability, monitoring metrics, and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty, AWS CloudWatch)
- Implement CI/CD pipelines and separate stability testing
- Collaborate with technical and non-technical business partners to develop / update functionalities
- Communicate with stakeholders within and outside the team
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. It has raised impressive funding that it intends to use to expand operations and business reach.
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back within 2 weeks
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 strongly encourage all of our employees take at least 3 weeks per year
- Stock options for everyone
- Company sponsored US health coverage (100% paid for employee)
- Fully remote team - choose where you live
- Work from home stipend! We want you to have the resources you need to set up your home office
- Apple laptops provided for new employees
- Training and development budget for every employee, refreshed each year
- Maternity & Paternity leave for qualified employees
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
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Leadership
Eli Finkelshteyn
(CEO)Experienced Data Scientist and Engineer. Ran Eli Does Data, a data science consulting firm. Has worked for Shutterstock and Tumblr.
Dan McCormick
(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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