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Senior Backend Engineer

You.com · San Francisco, CA, New York, NY (Remote) · Remote

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About You.com

Skip the groundwork with our AI-ready Web Search APIs, delivering advanced search capabilities to power your next product. Backed by Norwest.

About the role

At You.com, we are building the AI Search Infrastructure that powers modern AI systems. Our goal is to create the trusted knowledge layer that agents, applications, and enterprises rely on to retrieve real-time, accurate, and citation-backed information.

What they're looking for

  • Design, build, and maintain backend systems that support web-scale, AI-driven search products
  • Shape our public API and SDKs into tools developers can rely on and enjoy building with
  • Build the billing, account, permissions, and provisioning systems that support our enterprise customers
  • Maintain performant production databases (SQL and NoSQL) and analytics stores at scale
  • Apply observability practices suited to large-scale, fast-changing AI workloads
  • Participate in an on-call rotation and help build monitoring that catches issues early
More about this role

About Us

At You.com, we are building the AI Search Infrastructure that powers modern AI systems. Our goal is to create the trusted knowledge layer that agents, applications, and enterprises rely on to retrieve real-time, accurate, and citation-backed information.

Our platform combines proprietary vertical indexes with LLM-optimized retrieval systems to power AI agents, applications, and enterprise workflows. We are solving hard problems across search, large language models, and large-scale infrastructure to make AI systems more reliable, transparent, and useful.

Our team includes engineers, researchers, product builders, and operators who care about solving meaningful problems and delivering real-world impact. Whether you are improving core infrastructure, shaping product experiences, or helping bring new AI capabilities to market, your work will help define how modern AI finds and uses knowledge.

About the Role

We're looking for a strong, generalist backend engineer to help build the platform behind our AI search products and infrastructure that already supports millions of queries a day. The role spans a lot of ground: scalable systems, the APIs and SDKs developers build on top...

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