Backend Engineer

Paperpile is seeking a backend engineer to work on data-heavy systems, including pipelines, search optimization, PDF handling, and API development, supporting a large academic literature database.

Salary: €60,000–€90,000

Responsibilities

• Build and operate data ingestion pipelines handling heterogeneous sources.
• Optimize search and indexing strategies for full-text search systems.
• Develop and maintain reliable REST APIs.
• Handle PDFs at scale and expose clean APIs.

Requirements

• Strong backend engineering background with experience in data-heavy systems.
• Experience deploying and operating services on AWS.
• Designing and maintaining data ingestion pipelines, web scraping, working with third-party APIs.
• Familiarity with Node.js and TypeScript, or similar environments like Java or Python.
• High standards for data quality, correctness, deduplication, and consistency.
• Solid understanding of full-text search systems, indexing, relevance tuning, and query optimization.
• Proficient in building reliable REST APIs.

Benefits

• Bonus/equity program.