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Senior Backend Engineer, Discovery

Raya· Engineering
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Remote$180k - $230kfull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior backend engineer focused on Core Discovery services, with emphasis on Maps, Location surfaces, and Directory search experience. Remote role within Raya’s engineering organization.

Responsibilities

  • Product Ownership: Collaborate, build, and lead key components of our Core Discovery services, with a focus on the Maps and Location surfaces and our Directory search experience.
  • Collaboration: Work with UX designers to data scientists to ensure solutions are comprehensive and user focused.
  • Continuous Learning: Stay updated with Raya's tech ecosystem, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, and innovative.
  • User-Centric Development: Prioritize top-tier user experiences using feedback loops and data-driven methodologies to define features.
  • Operational Excellence: Manage the full SDLC with agile methodologies, CI/CD practices, and Raya's best practices across development phases.

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of hands-on experience in modern software development environments, with a track record of delivering scalable and maintainable systems.
  • Expertise in system design, architecture, and mastery in Node.js and TypeScript.
  • Experience building and scaling backend systems in production at a startup or fast-moving environment.
  • Production experience with location-based systems: geospatial data, geo indexing, proximity and nearby queries, and mapping surfaces.
  • Experience building search systems (relevance, ranking, Elasticsearch or similar) for a consumer product. Strongly preferred.
  • Strong data fundamentals across a relational database (PostgreSQL) and a document store (MongoDB), including indexing and query performance.
  • Enthusiasm around new AI tools and frameworks, and a willingness to quickly adopt emerging best practices.

Skills

Required:Node.jsTypeScriptSystem design and architectureLocation-based systemsRelational DB and document store
Nice to have:Search systems (Elasticsearch or similar)AI tools and frameworks
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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