- Work alongside existing team to build out new features for our private search engine
- Help shape architectural decisions and proactively tackle tech debt, bugs, and other engineering tasks
- Oversee work from tickets to production deployments and monitoring
- Collaborate with product team, balancing quality with output volume and complexity
- Participate in emergency on-call rotation
Requirements
- Excellent communications skills, strong command of the English language
- 5+ years of professional software development experience building and operating production web services at scale.
- Deep understanding of HTTP and all of its moving parts: front-ends, back-ends, serving infrastructure, DNS, etc.
- Good understanding of REST API architectures, both writing them and consuming them.
- Experience with JavaScript (TypeScript/Node.js/React), modern CSS, and HTML.
- Experience with Python—our backend services are predominantly written in Python.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Helm in a multi-region production environment and a good working knowledge of K8s concepts.
- Proficient with Docker and containerized service development.
- Experience with Redis and/or similar caching strategies in latency-sensitive systems.
- Comfortable with modern CI/CD tooling (ArgoCD, GitHub Actions).
- Experience with monitoring and instrumenting services such as New Relic, Datadog, Cloudwatch, etc.
- Strong automated testing experience and discipline (unit, integration, and end-to-end tests).
- Experience with AI coding tools and a good understanding of when it is appropriate to move quickly with these tools versus when it is important for human oversight.
- Experience with AWS or other modern cloud provider(s) for serving well-architected, scalable web applications.
- Any background or previous experience in search, ad tech, or browser-facing privacy products would be an asset but not a must.
Core Competencies
Demonstrates expertise in building and operating production web services at scale, with a strong focus on architectural decisions, automated testing, and modern CI/CD practices. Proficient in JavaScript, Python, and containerization technologies, ensuring high-quality deployments and effective collaboration with cross-functional teams.
Highest-signal resume keywords
- 5+ Years Software Development Experience
- JavaScript (TypeScript/Node.js/React)
- Python Backend Development
- Kubernetes and Helm Experience
- Automated Testing Experience
ATS Optimization KeywordsHard Skills
- Software Development
- HTTP Understanding
- REST API Architecture
- Automated Testing
- Containerization
- Cloud Services (AWS)
- Caching Strategies (Redis)
- CI/CD Tooling
- Monitoring Services
- AI Coding Tools
Soft Skills
- Excellent Communication Skills
Industry Keywords
- Search
- Ad Tech
- Browser-Facing Privacy Products
Tools & Technologies
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- Docker
- ArgoCD
- GitHub Actions
- New Relic
- Datadog
- Cloudwatch
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