[Hiring] Senior Backend Engineer @Paperpile
Senior Backend Engineer @Paperpile
Software Development
Salary eur 60,000 - 90..
Remote Location
Employment Type full-time
Posted 2d ago

[Hiring] Senior Backend Engineer @Paperpile

2d ago - Paperpile is hiring a remote Senior Backend Engineer. πŸ’Έ Salary: eur 60,000 - 90,000 per year πŸ“Location: Worldwide

Role Description

Paperpile runs on data at scale, with a literature database of 250M+ academic papers and a growing body of user data accumulated over more than a decade. You'll work across the systems that ingest, process, store, and serve this data reliably:

  • Building pipelines
  • Optimizing search
  • Handling PDFs at scale
  • Exposing clean APIs

Qualifications

  • Strong backend engineering background with experience building and operating data-heavy systems in production
  • Experience deploying and operating services on AWS
  • Experience designing and maintaining data ingestion pipelines handling messy, heterogeneous sources
  • Comfortable with web scraping and working with third-party data sources and APIs
  • Familiarity with Node.js and TypeScript (background in Java or Python is acceptable)
  • High standards for data quality, focusing on correctness, deduplication, and consistency
  • Solid understanding of full-text search systems including indexing strategy, relevance tuning, and query optimization
  • Proficient in building reliable REST APIs

Requirements

  • Familiarity with academic publishing formats and data sources (PubMed, Crossref, arXiv…)
  • Experience with PDF processing pipelines (extraction, transformation, storage and delivery at scale)
  • Experience with LLM-based document processing or ML pipelines for extracting structured data from unstructured text
  • Large scale web crawling and scraping

Benefits

  • Base compensation €60,000–€90,000 based on the level of your experience
  • Bonus/equity program
  • 4 weeks paid vacation + local holidays
  • We sponsor co-working space in your city
  • Learn and grow. Try out new things. We sponsor relevant courses, seminars, and conferences
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Senior Backend Engineer @Paperpile
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Salary eur 60,000 - 90..
Remote Location
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