Senior Backend Engineer

<div><div style="left:0px;width:100%;height:0px;position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%"><iframe src="https://embedded-media.ashbyhq.com/embed/d46a70e4-dda0-4df5-a31f-79355b4ff19c/eda45950-5ae1-494c-aa8e-7d1dfcce20a3" style="top:0px;left:0px;width:100%;height:100%;position:absolute;border:0px" allowfullscreen="true" scrolling="no" allow="encrypted-media *; picture-in-picture *;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-presentation"></iframe></div></div><h2>About Peec AI</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">Peec AI is the analytics platform for AI search. People increasingly discover products and make buying decisions through ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Google's AI Overviews instead of traditional search, and most brands have no idea where they show up in those answers. Peec gives marketing, SEO, and growth teams the data to see exactly that: how visible their brand is across AI platforms, how they compare to competitors, and where to win.<br /><br />We are defining this category, and the market is moving with us. Peec is a Series A company backed by 20VC and Singular, that went from $0 to $15M ARR in 18 months, with a 100+ person team across our Berlin HQ and our New York office.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2>About the role</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">Peec AI is building the data plane for AI visibility: millions of chats, scrapes, citations, sources, model responses, and customer-facing insights running through a fast-moving backend.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">This role is for an engineer who wants to own the systems behind that. You will not just add endpoints or close tickets. You will make our scraping, chat-processing, source-ingestion, and analytics infrastructure more reliable, cheaper, faster, and easier for the rest of the team to reason about.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">The best fit looks like someone who can debug a provider outage in the morning, design a better queueing model before lunch, ship a TypeScript service change in the afternoon, and write the postmortem or follow-up ticket clearly enough that the next engineer immediately knows what to do.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We are especially interested in people who have built or operated systems with real constraints: rate limits, flaky third-party APIs, queues, webhooks, retries, distributed locks, data migrations, observability gaps, customer pressure, and cost ceilings.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2>What we’re looking for</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">5+ years of backend, platform, infrastructure, or distributed systems engineering experience in a production environment.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Deep hands-on TypeScript experience. We run TypeScript services on Bun, and we care about people who can design clean, reliable backend systems rather than only write application code.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Strong understanding of queues, workers, retries, rate limits, idempotency, distributed locks, webhooks, and failure handling.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience operating systems under real production pressure: incidents, provider outages, customer escalations, noisy alerts, slow dependencies, and incomplete data.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Comfort with cloud-native infrastructure. Our stack includes GCP, Kubernetes, Cloud Tasks, Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, Redis, Postgres, Firestore, ClickHouse, Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.</p></li><li>&