Senior / Staff Backend Engineer, Platform & Search
Argon AI, New York City
About the job
Argon · New York City · In person
Argon builds AI software for life-sciences teams doing complex research, analysis, and writing. Our products connect documents, scientific evidence, and company knowledge to help people produce useful, well-supported work.
We’re hiring an experienced backend engineer to own the platform and search systems behind those products. You’ll work directly with the founders and a small engineering team, make consequential technical decisions, and carry projects from an ambiguous problem through implementation, rollout, and production operation.
What you’ll do
- Construct a model of pharma. Make relevant evidence accessible through bespoke ontologies, indexing, filtering, and lexical and semantic search. Measure quality alongside latency and cost.
- Deliver backend systems end to end. Translate product and infrastructure needs into practical plans, write production code, and follow through until it works for customers. Break large projects into useful releases.
- Own infrastructure and reliability. Build and operate services on AWS and Kubernetes. Improve deployment tooling, observability, recovery, capacity management, and tenant isolation.