Backend Engineer: Partnership Integrations Team

Backend Engineer: Partnership Integrations Team

Base pay range: $80,000.00/yr - $120,000.00/yr

About Us

Constructor is the next-generation platform for search and discovery in ecommerce, built to optimize metrics like revenue, conversion rate, and profit. Our in-house search engine uses transformers and generative LLMs to power search, recommendations, and shopping agents. Engineering is our largest department, and we have built a proprietary engine designed to perform well in A/B tests. We work on the bleeding edge of AI to maintain leadership in scale and performance.

Our engine handles extreme scale, powering over 1 billion queries daily across 150 languages and roughly 100 countries. It is used by ecommerce companies such as Sephora, Under Armour, and Petco. We value empathy, openness, curiosity, continuous improvement, and metrics that matter. We believe empowering everyone to do what they do best leads to great results.

Constructor is a U.S.-based company founded in 2019 by Eli Finkelshteyn and Dan McCormick, who continue to lead the company.

About The Position

As a backend engineer on the Partnership Integrations team, you will maintain and develop streamlined integrations between Constructor and partner platforms. Responsibilities include:

• Writing and deploying code across the front and backend, primarily in TypeScript / JavaScript
• Interfacing with engineering teams at partner companies to develop integrations
• Working with data exposed via interfaces such as REST, GraphQL, FTP, etc.
• Providing thorough and thoughtful code reviews
• Influencing the development of new features in our UI and SDK libraries
• Ensuring code stability through testing (unit tests, integration tests, etc.)
• Coordinating with other teams to prioritize partnership integrations needs

Responsibilities

• Writing and deploying code across the front and backend, mainly in TypeScript / JavaScript
• Interfacing with partner engineering teams to develop connecting integrations
• Working with data exposed via REST, GraphQL, FTP, and other interfaces
• Supporting teammates with code reviews
• Influencing feature development in UI and SDK libraries
• Maintaining code stability through testing
• Coordinating with other teams to prioritize integration needs

Requirements

• A minimum of two years of professional and/or academic experience in software engineering
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Located in or between GMT-3 and GMT+3 timezones
• Experience architecting efficient server-side applications
• Strong foundation and experience with server-side and client-side integrations
• Enjoys interacting with external stakeholders and solving new problems daily
• Able to pick up new technologies, languages, and design patterns quickly
• Bonus: experience with data processing pipelines and ETL processes
• Bonus: experience with front-end frameworks like React, Vue, or Angular

Benefits

• Unlimited vacation time; we encourage taking at least 3 weeks per year
• Fully remote team; choose where you live
• Work from home stipend to set up your home office
• Apple laptops provided for new employees
• Training and development budget refreshed each year
• Maternity & Paternity leave for qualified employees
• Opportunity to work with smart people and make a meaningful impact
• Salary range between $80k and $120k USD; varies with knowledge, skills, experience, and interview results
• Regular team offsites to connect and collaborate

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Constructor.io is committed to a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. We provide equal opportunities to all applicants regardless of education, race, color, religion, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or affiliation with any protected group.

Note: We encourage applicants to apply even if they do not meet every listed qualification.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering

Industries

• IT Services and IT Consulting