Senior / Staff / Principal Backend Engineer AI Search - Remote Worldwide - Up to $185k

To apply https://matcha.fm/apply/bee Full-time · Fully remote (US, UK, Canada, Europe, Switzerland, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, South Africa) · Up to $185k per year, the same regardless of where you live This is a Senior / Staff Backend Engineer role on the AI search team of a fully remote company. Looking for a senior or staff backend engineer to build AI-assisted answers into a search product used by a large audience. You will own this end to end, from first design to production, in a backend spanning Perl, Go and Node.js. What you'll do - Build AI-assisted answers into search, from retrieval and prompting to evaluation and rollout - Own your work end to end: design, implementation, deployment, monitoring and iteration - Work across backend services written in Perl, Go and Node.js - Set up and run eval frameworks so changes to models and prompts are measured, not guessed - Make product and technical tradeoffs and explain them clearly to the team - Mentor senior engineers and raise the bar on how the team builds You - 7+ years building backend systems that power a user-facing product - Hands-on with AI agent tooling: eval frameworks, RAG pipelines, prompt engineering - Fundamental understanding of complex data structures and algorithms - Strong in at least one of Perl, Go or Node.js, and happy to work across all three - Experience mentoring senior engineers - Good product acumen, you understand what users need and can make tradeoffs when necessary - Clear written and spoken communication, you work well in a distributed team - A track record of owning systems end to end Compensation and benefits - Compensation: Up to $185k per year, the same regardless of where you live - Unlimited PTO - No core working hours, around 40 hours a week on average - Flexible hours, organize your day around your life - End to end ownership of what you build To apply https://matcha.fm/apply/bee