Senior Backend Engineer
Listed on 2026-10-23
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Software Development
Backend Developer
Our culture of trust, inclusivity, and empowered project management underpins everything we do, where each team member takes full ownership of their projects, from scoping and execution to postmortem. If you're seeking end-to-end ownership of your work, you've come to the right place!
Your Team and RoleWorking on the Backend Functional Team, you'll lead complex projects across key company-wide objectives. Using Perl (Version
5), Go, and Node.js, you’ll write pragmatic, performant, testable code that works consistently, and work on related projects. Recent projects include:
Implementing AI-assisted answers and integrating them into our Search product while maintaining our privacy-first approach
Delivering improvements to Duck.ai to help us make it a competitive AI chat alternative for both free and paying users
Implementing sophisticated data processing pipelines that maintain search relevancy
As a Senior Backend Engineer
, you'll collaborate remotely with your peers and take responsibility for solving product issues impacting our all-in-one privacy solution, whether large or small. In time, you'll formally mentor other engineers, supporting their career growth and the growth of the Backend Team at Duck Duck Go .
7+ years of professional experience, primarily focused on backend systems that power consumer-facing products
Product acumen to reason about technical tradeoffs in terms of user impact
Familiarity with AI agent tooling: evaluation frameworks, RAG pipelines and prompt engineering
A fundamental understanding of complex data structures and algorithms — you can develop and apply new solutions and confidently navigate and improve existing code.
Data-driven analytical skills for decision-making, stakeholder alignment, and experiment-oriented delivery
Solid project management abilities
Excellent written and verbal communication to validate and articulate decisions
Previous experience leading and mentoring experienced engineers, supporting their career goals, and unlocking their potential.
CompensationThis role is paid on a regional pay scale, in local currency, and stock options:
United States
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Work Type
Full-Time
Location
Anywhere in the World
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