Staff Backend Engineer, you.com
$200-250k
+ Equity and bonus
AI productivity platform
Open for applications
AI productivity platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$200-250k
+ Equity and bonus
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make the world’s information useful for everyone through its privacy-first personalized search engine.
Role
Who you are
- You are excited to help build a performant and secure backend and set of data pipelines to power our AI systems and other user-facing features
- You are excited to build web-scale internet systems to deliver value and information to millions of users and are equally driven by producing secure systems to store and retrieve user information, writing tests, digging into deployment infrastructure, and generally diving into all things backend at you.com
- You pride yourself on writing clean code, striving for simplicity, and helping shape strong and healthy long-term patterns and habits for your team
- While you can execute on implementation and experimentation independently, you thrive in collaborative environments, can integrate feedback from active users into your own vision for the product, and can work with designers and engineers to refine our vision into your own
- You have built and deployed mission critical REST/RPC consumable services and built code to test and monitor those services to watch for issues
- Comfortable writing unit and integration tests and the related frameworks, you default to writing tests to cover your code paths
- Are comfortable with k8s, making basic updates to deployments or configuration and debugging when things go wrong in these systems
What the job involves
- We are hiring a world-class team of software engineers to architect, implement, and deploy a consumer-facing product that harnesses AI to surface trusted information for more confident user decisions
- Be a product-minded engineer who likes to design, build and maintain new product features and infrastructure end-to-end
- Feel comfortable collaborating with talented front-end developers, designers, and product managers as well a cross-functional stakeholders from all around the company
- Develop and maintain our production databases (SQL and NoSQL), are comfortable maintaining databases and building performant query patterns for scale
- Debug live production issues and proactively write tests to avoid those issues in the first place
- Ship performant, monitored, user facing production services
- Contribute to a healthy and supportive culture of code review and strong coding practices. Help build a team culture and set of architectural patterns that will help the org and team scale as we grow
Our take
Google has maintained its status as a household name for online search engines since the '90s. Since then, however, it has become rife with sponsored advertisements, privacy issues, and one-size-fits-all search results, showing a vast area of space for improvement.
You.com provides a privacy-first personalized search engine, allowing users to integrate apps and personal preferences into the browser extension to optimize their search results based on what they are looking for. The search engine also guarantees that search history and cookies will not be logged by the company, in addition to preventing websites and advertisers from tracking browsing habits.
Whilst the company's competition from the likes of Google, Bing, Yahoo, and other search engine giants is fierce, You.com shows great potential having served 1B queries and boasting millions of active users. With a 500% increase in ARR since January 2024 and a recent $560M Series B Funding round, the company is rapidly scaling, becoming a rising player in the AI and search space.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2024
$50m
SERIES B
Oct 2023
$2.9m
SERIES A
Total funding: $97.9m
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 values
- Trust: Transparency in sources
- Facts: Citations for everything
- Kindness: Consideration towards all users
Company HQ
University South, Palo Alto, CA
Articles
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.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at you.com
- You.com is an equal opportunity employer: your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability status don’t matter. We’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and supportive workplace that is effectively distributed around the world
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