Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
Company: DuckDuckGo
Job Type: Full-time
Location: Remote
Salary/Pay:
Paid on a regional pay scale in local currency, plus stock options.
Europe/Rest of World: €157,350 per year.
United States: $190,500,
United Kingdom: £134,600
Canada: C$253,500.
Experience: Senior level, 7+ years of professional experience, primarily in backend systems that power consumer-facing products.
Skills Required:
- Backend development: writing pragmatic, performant, testable code in Perl (version 5), Go, and Node.js
- Product thinking: reasoning about technical tradeoffs in terms of user impact
- AI tooling: familiarity with AI agent tooling, including evaluation frameworks, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering
- Computer science fundamentals: complex data structures and algorithms, with the ability to develop new solutions and improve existing code
- Analytical skills: data-driven decision-making, stakeholder alignment, and experiment-oriented delivery
- Project management: solid project management abilities
- Communication: excellent written and verbal communication to validate and articulate decisions
- Leadership: leading and mentoring experienced engineers and supporting their career goals
Date Posted: Oct 21, 2026
Application Deadline: Nov 20th, 2026
Description:
DuckDuckGo is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer for its Backend Functional Team to lead complex projects across company-wide objectives. Each team member fully owns their projects, from scoping and execution to postmortem. Over time, you will formally mentor other engineers and help grow the Backend Team. Your work will include:
- Writing pragmatic, performant, and testable backend code using Perl 5, Go, and Node.js
- Implementing AI-assisted answers and integrating them into Search while keeping a privacy-first approach
- Improving Duck.ai to make it a competitive AI chat alternative for free and paying users
- Building data processing pipelines that maintain search relevancy
- Solving product issues, large or small, that affect the all-in-one privacy solution
- Collaborating remotely with peers and mentoring other engineers
How to Apply: Apply here