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    Senior Backend Engineer

    DuckDuckGo
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    Remote
    Senior
    Full Time
    14 days ago
    💰$178,500
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    Requirements

    • 7+ years of professional experience focused on backend systems for consumer-facing products
    • Product acumen to reason about technical tradeoffs in terms of user impact
    • Familiarity with AI agent tooling including evaluation frameworks, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering
    • Fundamental understanding of complex data structures and algorithms
    • Data-driven analytical skills for decision-making and experiment-oriented delivery
    • Solid project management abilities
    • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
    • Previous experience leading and mentoring experienced engineers

    What You'll Do

    • Lead complex backend projects across key company-wide objectives
    • Write pragmatic, performant, testable code using Perl, Go, and Node.js
    • Implement AI-assisted answers and integrate them into the Search product
    • Deliver improvements to Duck.ai for AI chat alternative
    • Implement sophisticated data processing pipelines to maintain search relevancy
    • Collaborate remotely with peers
    • Solve product issues impacting the privacy solution
    • Mentor other engineers and support their career growth

    Benefits

    • $178,500 USD annual salary
    • Stock options
    • Paid parental leave
    • Office setup allowance
    • Co-working allowances
    • Company-sponsored health benefits for US-based team members

    About DuckDuckGo

    Independent online protection company. Get our browser with protections built-in, including our search engine that doesn’t track you.

    Paoli, PA, US
    250 - 500
    Internet & Software