💼 Full-Time Position

Senior Backend Engineer (Data, Search, Infrastructure)

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Paperpile
📍 Austria, Austria, Austria
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Location
Austria, Austria
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Posted
May 29, 2026
Type
Full-Time
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Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

Job 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, and exposing clean APIs.

Requirements

  • 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. It’s fine if you come from a different background, such as Java or Python, but you should be comfortable working in this e...