Job Description
About The Team
Launched in 2019, Constructor is an AI-first ecommerce search and discovery platform that helps shoppers find the right products at the right time and enables leading global e-commerce brands to drive meaningful revenue and conversion gains.
As a Backend Engineer in the Attribute Enrichment team, you will improve the e-commerce experience for hundreds of millions of users across the world by designing, building, and maintaining scalable services that deliver enriched items, metadata, and attributes to end users. You’ll work across key services like Attribute Enrichment and Badges, managing a dedicated database and developing APIs that integrate with Search and Browse.
You will collaborate closely with ML engineers to develop and optimize the Attribute Enrichment service, ensuring its scalability, reliability, and performance. You will build the CI/CD and observability systems from scratch, as well as maintain and improve existing mature systems.
Challenges you will tackle
Build a new service to deliver ML-generated enriched attributes to our customers
Design a high-throughput, low-latency Badges service for heavy traffic
Develop Constructor’s Attribute Enrichment product and Badges product features
Deploy high-available services in the cloud and implement CI/CD pipelines following best industry standards (AWS, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
Set up service observability, monitoring metrics, and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty, AWS CloudWatch)
Work with a dedicated database to manage enriched items, their metadata, and derived attributes for our customer dashboard application, ensuring data consistency, performance, and availability for downstream services and APIs
Write and maintain unit, integration, and end-to-end tests for backend services to ensure code quality and service reliability
5+ years of experience
Strong computer science background & familiarity with networking principles
Proficiency in Python and backend development patterns
Experience in designing, developing & maintaining highload real-time services and public APIs
Experience with NoSQL and relational databases, distributed systems, and caching solutions would be a plus
Experience with any compiled programming language (e.g. Go, Rust) would be a plus
Experience writing unit and integration tests for backend services using frameworks such as Pytest, unittest, or equivalent
Experience collaborating in cross-functional teams
Excellent English communication skills
🏝️ Unlimited vacation time - we strongly encourage all employees to take at least 3 weeks per year
🌎 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 - refreshed each year for every employee
👪 Maternity & Paternity leave for qualified employees
🧠 Work with smart people who will help you grow and make a meaningful impact
💵 Base salary: $80k–$120k USD, depending on knowledge, skills, experience, and interview results
📈 Stock options - offered in addition to the base salary
🎉 Regular team offsites to connect and collaborate
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Constructor
At Constructor.io we are committed to cultivating a work environment that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive. As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome individuals of all backgrounds and provide equal opportunities to all applicants regardless of their education, diversity of opinion, race, color, religion, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status or affiliation in any other protected group.
Studies have shown that women and people of color may be less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every one of the qualifications listed. Our primary interest is in finding the best candidate for the job. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all of our listed qualifications.
