Senior Backend Engineer, Core Discovery at Jobgether
$180,000–$230,000from the description
Jul 16, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior backend engineering role focused on building and maintaining scalable systems that power location-based discovery, search, and mapping features within a core product team. Day-to-day work spans geospatial data handling, search relevance and ranking, database performance, and architecture decisions, alongside cross-functional collaboration with product, design, and data teams. Suits an experienced backend engineer with a strong Node.js/TypeScript background and hands-on production systems ownership.
Senior level · 6+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 24,800 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 10,400–37,200
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
Elasticsearch (or similar search technology for relevance/ranking) is described as 'strongly preferred' rather than required — it appears in the requirements section but with explicit softening language, so it is treated as preferred.
CI/CD is mentioned in the context of advocating for engineering practices ('Advocate for strong engineering practices, including clean code, testing, CI/CD workflows') — a cultural/practice expectation rather than a hard technology gate, so it is treated as preferred.
The posting is listed via Jobgether on behalf of an unnamed partner company; the actual employer is not disclosed.
Compensation is stated as a competitive annual range of $180,000–$230,000, plus equity and benefits.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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