Backend Engineer

Position Overview

• Location Type: 100% Remote
• Employment Type: Full-Time
• Salary: $100k - $165k (US) / $75k - $125k (USD) (Latin America) / $90k - $150k (USD) (Canada)
• Brief Description: As a foundational member of our engineering team, you'll handle all backend work to help ship new features for our web app. We have a frequent release cadence and a close connection to our market. With 900k monthly active users, each contribution will have a meaningful impact. This role requires a willingness to learn and work with a diverse technology stack.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience with backend engineering
• Ability to write clean and simple code, even when solving complex problems
• Strong systems design skills
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies
• Enjoyable to work with

Technology Stack

• Programming Languages: Python, TypeScript
• Databases: PostgreSQL, Redis
• Frameworks: FastAPI, React, Next.js
• Styling: Tailwind
• Cloud: AWS, Kubernetes
• Monitoring: Prometheus
• Vector Database: Pinecone
• AI: OpenAI

Responsibilities

• Backend development for web app features
• API design and implementation
• Data engineering tasks
• Algorithm development
• Learning and utilizing new technologies across the backend and frontend stacks
• Working with semi-structured data from online sources
• Improving and migrating data models
• Enhancing evaluation frameworks for the search engine
• Utilizing LLMs to identify references within legal text

Example Projects

• Use an LLM to identify references to other sections in the text of the law
• Improve and migrate our data model for the content we host
• Retrieve semi-structured data from various online sources and automate the structuring of the data
• Improve the evaluation framework for our search engine