Backend Software Engineer – API
| Company | Perplexity AI |
|---|---|
| Location | San Francisco, CA, USA, New York, NY, USA |
| Salary | $180000 – $250000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | |
| Experience Level | Mid Level, Senior |
Requirements
- Understand good practices of building and working with natural language/LLM APIs
- Have experience managing infrastructure for API products
- Have a good intuition for what will last and scale
- Have experience in ensuring great user experience and ease of use of features and products you build
- 4+ years of engineering experience
Responsibilities
- Design, build, expand and maintain APIs and services
- Scope and lead large technical projects, laying the groundwork for early-stage products to iteratively evolve and scale
- Work with engineers across the company to understand when existing infrastructure can be leveraged vs. when building a bespoke solution is prudent
- Align our technical decisions with the company’s broad strategic initiatives, while also advocating for needs specific to emerging new API initiatives
- Should be able to generalize specific customer requests and build features that are applicable to the broader user base of the product
Preferred Qualifications
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No preferred qualifications provided.