Staff Backend Engineer
Core
Own the technical direction, architecture, performance, and reliability of high-traffic, low-latency Python services for product discovery (autocomplete, search, browse, recommendations) serving up to 15k RPS.
Role type
Staff Backend Engineer (Distributed Systems)
Builds
Public APIs, request orchestration services, and the MCP layer exposing discovery capabilities to AI agents.
Domain
E-commerce search and discovery, distributed systems, AI infrastructure.
Required skills
Python, high-traffic low-latency backend services, observability, public API design, scalable service-oriented architectures, incident response, mentoring.
Preferred skills
AWS, search/ranking/information retrieval, e-commerce product discovery, AI/LLM-facing infrastructure (MCP, agent tooling).
Responsibilities
Own technical direction of services, lead design of new systems and public APIs, mentor mid and senior engineers, partner with product and other teams, take part in on-call and lead incident response.
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with mentorship and architectural leadership.
