Software Engineer, Backend

Exa
Singapore
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeSGD 90,000 - 300,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Problem-solving","Collaboration","Communication"]

Backend engineer at an applied AI lab building a massive-scale search engine. You’ll work on high-throughput, low-latency systems, build data pipelines processing millions of documents daily, and optimize performance in a performance-focused environment using languages like C++ or Rust.

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Exa
Exa
8 months ago

Software Engineer, Backend

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Job Summary

Backend engineer at an applied AI lab building a massive-scale search engine. You’ll work on high-throughput, low-latency systems, build data pipelines processing millions of documents daily, and optimize performance in a performance-focused environment using languages like C++ or Rust.
Location: Singapore
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Contribute to backend engineering within the search architecture, shaping projects based on skills and interests.
  • •Design and implement data pipelines and services to support processing of large-scale document collections.
  • •Optimize system performance to achieve low latency and high throughput in a scalable environment.
  • •Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality information retrieval and relevance.
  • •Contribute to building out key backend projects and infrastructure for massive-scale ML-enabled search systems.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: SGD 90,000 - 300,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceFertility BenefitsParental LeaveWellness Stipend

Key Requirements

  • •Experience writing and maintaining high-throughput, low-latency systems.
  • •Ability to build data processing pipelines that handle millions of documents per day.
  • •Strong drive to optimize systems to exceptional levels of performance.
  • •Passion for finding high-quality information and its real-world impact.
  • •Plus: experience in a high-performance language (C++, Rust, etc.)
Experience:AiSearch
Skills:Problem-solvingCollaborationCommunication
Tech Stack:C++RustDistributed systemsLow latencyHigh throughputVector databases

Company Brief

Exa
Builds an embeddings-based neural search engine and web search API for AI applications, offering crawling, retrieval, and deep research tools to serve developers and AI agents with up-to-date web knowledge.
Industry: API Platforms
Company Size: Small (11 to 50 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: USD 500M to 1B
Funding: Series B
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2021
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