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Senior Backend Engineer, Core Discovery

Backend EngineerSoftware EngineerFull TimeRemoteSeniorTeam 51-200H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

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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