Senior Backend Engineer
Description
Who We Are Hi, we're DuckDuckGo, the online protection company and remote-first team of 400+ on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. Founded in 2008 and profitable since 2014, our annual revenue is in the hundreds of millions USD and millions use our browser on Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android, our search engine, and the DuckDuckGo subscription. We also offer private, useful, and optional AI, including Duck.ai, which lets you chat privately with ChatGPT, Claude, and other AIs, all in one place.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 Role Working on the Backend Functional Team, you'll lead complex projects across key company-wide objectives. Using Perl (Version 5), Go, and Node.js, youâll 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 approachDelivering improvements to Duck.ai to help us make it a competitive AI chat alternative for both free and paying usersImplementing sophisticated data processing pipelines that maintain search relevancyAs a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll collaborate remotely with your peers and take resp --- Source: remoteok - DuckDuckGo
