Fuku
Founding Backend Engineer
$160K–$200K
New York, New York · Full-time · Posted Dec 9, 2025
- Experience
- 3+ years of backend engineering experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- H-1B, O-1, OPT
About the job
Own and scale the backend and data infrastructure powering search, personalization, recommendations, and the shopping experience.
What you'll do
- Architect backend systems and build APIs and microservices for core product features.
- Design and maintain data pipelines for large-scale datasets.
- Integrate machine learning models into production and establish backend engineering standards.
What they ask for
- Strong proficiency in Python and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP).
- Hands-on experience building data pipelines and microservices architectures.
- Familiarity with Airflow, gRPC, GraphQL, and search/vector database technologies, including HNSW, OpenSearch / Elasticsearch, and ANN frameworks.
- Willingness to work in person in New York City.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with Ray, Dask, and Kubernetes.
- Background in machine learning or handling large datasets.
Pay
$160,000 – $200,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Python, AWS, GCP, Airflow, gRPC, GraphQL, HNSW, OpenSearch / Elasticsearch
AI focus
Integrate machine learning models into production and support AI-driven recommendations, search, and personalization.
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