Senior Backend Engineer (Data, Search, Infrastructure)

Published on April 29th, 2026

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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 –