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Senior Backend Engineer, Core Discovery
Location
United States
Posted
2 days ago
Salary
$180K - $230K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Backend Engineer, Core Discovery
Raya
• Collaborate, build, and lead key components of our Core Discovery services, with a focus on the Maps and Location surfaces and our Directory search experience. • Work hand-in-hand with cross-functional teams, ranging from UX designers to data scientists, ensuring our solutions are comprehensive and user focused. • Stay updated with the latest in Raya's tech ecosystem, ensuring our solutions are scalable, maintainable, and innovative. • Prioritize and advocate for top-tier user experiences, utilizing feedback loops and data-driven methodologies to define and refine product features. • Navigate the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), ensuring agile methodologies, CI/CD practices, and Raya's best practices are integrated into all development phases.
Job Requirements
- 6+ years of hands-on experience in modern software development environments, with a track record of delivering scalable and maintainable systems.
- Demonstrated expertise in system design, architecture, and mastery in Node.js and TypeScript.
- Proven experience in building and scaling backend systems in production at a startup or fast-moving environment.
- Production experience with location-based systems: geospatial data, geo indexing, proximity and nearby queries, and mapping surfaces. This is the primary need for this role.
- Experience building search systems (relevance, ranking, Elasticsearch or similar) for a consumer product. Strongly preferred.
- Strong data fundamentals across a relational database (PostgreSQL) and a document store (MongoDB), including indexing and query performance.
- Enthusiasm around new AI tools and frameworks, and a willingness to quickly adopt emerging best practices.
Benefits
- comprehensive medical and dental coverage
- $50 a day food delivery budget
- equity based employment
- a great culture
- learning opportunities
- unlimited vacation
- 12 weeks paid parental leave
- $1,000 a year travel budget
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