# Software Engineer, Backend at Exa

- Company: Exa
- What the company does: Search API for AI agents that need real-time web data, deep research, and structured content from one endpoint. Try our API for free. Backed by Lightspeed, Y Combinator and a16z.
- Company website: https://exa.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, California
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $180K to $350K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2025-06-26
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/exa/41eb773d-9909-422c-b6b8-5bbdc407d318
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/exa-software-engineer-backend/

## About the role

Our ultimate goal is to build perfect search over all the world's information, far beyond Google. If you want to build massive-scale ML systems that will define the way the new AI world consumes information, this is the place for you. As a backend engineer, you'd play a critical role in our search architecture. We're pretty flexible on what projects people work on based on their skills and interests.

## What they're looking for

- You have experience writing and maintaining high throughput, low latency systems
- You can build data processing pipelines that deal with millions of documents per day
- You’re comfortable optimizing a system to an exceptional degree
- You care about the problem of finding high quality information and recognize how important this is for the world
- Plus: Experience in some high performance language (C++, Rust, etc.)

Tags: Engineering