Senior / Staff Backend Engineer, Platform & Search

The role

You will own the platform and search systems for AI software used by life-sciences teams. You will build backend systems, manage infrastructure on AWS and Kubernetes, and lead search platform migrations.

What you will do

• Construct a model of pharma using ontologies, indexing, filtering, and search.
• Deliver backend systems end to end from planning to production.
• Build and operate services on AWS and Kubernetes.
• Improve deployment tooling, observability, recovery, capacity management, and tenant isolation.
• Lead search database evaluation and migration.
• Build systems to handle retries, duplicate work, rate limits, and partial failure.
• Extend the platform to support longer-running AI workflows.
• Improve service boundaries, shared libraries, tests, error handling, and development tools.

Required qualifications

• Track record of personally delivering substantial search, backend, or infrastructure projects into production.
• Strong engineering fundamentals and comfort moving between application code, database queries, and infrastructure.
• Experience operating stateful or distributed services, including queues, concurrency, migrations, and recovery.
• Production experience with search, indexing, or retrieval systems.
• Clear communication and thoughtful collaboration with engineers, product partners, and domain experts.

Nice to have

• Experience with comparable systems
• Hybrid search
• Relevance evaluation
• Private customer deployments
• AI workflow infrastructure

Benefits

• Support relocation

About the company

Argon builds AI software for life-sciences teams doing complex research, analysis, and writing. Their products connect documents, scientific evidence, and company knowledge.