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Senior Backend Engineer (Data, Search, Infrastructure)

Österreich💼 Full-time💰 $60,000–$60,000🗓 2026-04-29 → 2026-08-05

Core

Building and operating data-heavy systems to ingest, process, store, and serve a 250M+ academic paper database and user data.

Role type

Senior Backend Engineer (Data, Search, Infrastructure)

Builds

Data ingestion pipelines, search systems, PDF processing services, and clean REST APIs.

Domain

Academic publishing, data infrastructure, full-text search

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Backend engineering, AWS services, data ingestion pipelines, Node.js and TypeScript, full-text search systems, REST APIs, data quality management

Preferred skills

Academic publishing data sources, PDF processing pipelines, LLM-based document processing, large-scale web crawling

Technologies

AWS, Node.js, TypeScript, REST APIs

Responsibilities

Design and maintain data ingestion pipelines handling messy, heterogeneous sources; optimize search indexing and query relevance; build reliable REST APIs; ensure data correctness, deduplication, and consistency.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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