Staff Backend Engineer

About the role

ValCera is a venture-backed data and AI company in private-market intelligence. The company turns information from hundreds of unstructured sources into a structured index that professionals can search, compare and use to make decisions.

This role owns the architecture of the core intelligence layer: a sourcing engine spanning ingestion, retrieval, ranking, personalisation and model orchestration. The agentic layer built over the engine is already used by customers. You would report to the engineering lead for this product area and coordinate architecture across adjacent product, data and infrastructure teams.

The stack includes Python and Go on Google Cloud, Postgres, Elasticsearch, dbt, a hosted inference provider, an agent orchestration framework, TypeScript and React.

Responsibilities

• Own the sourcing engine architecture end to end, from ingestion through retrieval, ranking, personalisation and model orchestration.
• Set patterns that let the engine power repeatable workflows across the product.
• Define retrieval and reranking frameworks to maintain result quality as the corpus and query volume grow.

Requirements

The source does not specify formal requirements.

Key facts

• The role owns architecture across ingestion, retrieval, ranking, personalisation and model orchestration.
• The stack includes Python, Go, Google Cloud, Postgres and Elasticsearch.
• The role reports to the engineering lead for this product area.

Estimated salary

Estimated salary for software developer in United States: USD 6,050 - 10,500 per month, based on 50 CazVid job posts that state their pay. This is an estimate, not the salary offered.