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Backend Engineer, Marketplace Team

Mercor • United States
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Build core backend systems for candidate-job matching, allocation, and workflows in a high-growth AI-driven marketplace. Focus on search, reliability, and scalability to optimize hiring speed and revenue. Requires experience in distributed systems, high-throughput APIs, and production-grade infrastructure.

Key Highlights
Core role in shaping AI-driven marketplace infrastructure for candidate-job matching and workflow automation.
High-impact systems directly influence hiring speed, fill rate, and revenue through reliability and performance.
Work with distributed systems, real-time APIs, and asynchronous workflows at scale.
Key Responsibilities
Develop backend services for candidate-job matching, routing, and workflow automation.
Design and maintain APIs, data models, and infrastructure for search, eligibility, scoring, and allocation systems.
Ensure high reliability, performance, and scalability of marketplace decisioning systems.
Build operational tooling for real-time and asynchronous workflows at high volume.
Technical Skills Required
Distributed Systems High-Throughput APIs Production-Grade Infrastructure
Benefits & Perks
Bi-annual performance bonus structure
Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
$15,000 Relocation bonus
$10,000 housing bonus (if within 0.5 miles of office)
$1,500 monthly meals stipend
Free Equinox membership
$200 monthly laundry reimbursement
$200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement
Health, Dental, Vision insurance
Nice to Have
Experience with search/recommendation/matching systems.
Supporting ML-powered products or integrating model inference.
Familiarity with event-driven architecture, queues, caching, and observability.

Job Description

As a Backend Engineer on the Marketplace team, you will build the core systems that govern how talent and opportunities meet on Mercor. You’ll work on search, matching, allocation, and workflow infrastructure at the heart of the marketplace, where system quality directly affects fill rate, hiring speed, and revenue.

The problems are technically demanding and tightly coupled to business outcomes: latency, reliability, throughput, and system quality all directly affect marketplace performance.

What You’ll Build

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