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As a Senior Backend Engineer at DuckDuckGo, you'll lead backend projects, mentor engineers, and develop AI-enhanced features for the company's privacy-centric product line.

Lead and scale complex product partnerships end-to-end, sourcing, negotiating, and operationalizing strategic deals that enhance DuckDuckGo products (search, Duck.ai, subscriptions). Work cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Legal, and Finance to build first-of-their-kind integrations, create playbooks, manage partner portfolios, and drive distribution and user engagement for AI-related services.

As the Director of Data Science, you'll mentor teams, oversee projects, drive data-driven decisions, and implement AI and ML solutions while enhancing our data pipeline.

Build secure, privacy-focused native Android applications using Kotlin, Maestro, and Graphite. Responsibilities include developing Android features, improving autofill, supporting Privacy Pro, and enhancing phishing and malware protection. The role requires end-to-end project ownership, effective UX collaboration using quantitative and qualitative data, creative problem-solving, and clear communication across cross-functional teams.

Serve as DuckDuckGo's senior legal leader and strategic advisor, overseeing global privacy, regulatory and competition matters, managing the legal team, directing outside counsel, supporting corporate governance, M&A and financing, and partnering with Product, Engineering, and Policy on AI, data practices, and new product launches.

Drive profitable acquisition and growth of paid subscribers through paid advertising, channel and creative testing, conversion optimization, experimentation, and subscription economics analysis. The role owns marketing campaigns end to end, partners with Product and Engineering on funnels and instrumentation, and scales subscription programs using aggregate measurement and privacy-respecting advertising practices.

Lead design engineering across DuckDuckGo products, combining product design expertise with hands-on coding to prototype, specify, and ensure high-quality implementation. Collaborate closely with engineers, shape design systems, improve workflows, conduct research and experimentation, and autonomously deliver impactful projects for millions of users. Help establish and grow the company’s design engineering discipline while advancing privacy-focused product experiences.

Lead high-complexity data science initiatives improving search ranking, retrieval, relevance, and evaluation. Develop and deploy production machine-learning and NLP solutions, investigate LLM-based ranking features, optimize SQL queries, and work with sparse privacy-preserving data. Define strategies for ambiguous problems, guide other data scientists, collaborate with product teams, and own projects from scoping through production.

Lead and scale a profitable paid app subscription acquisition program. Own KPI development, campaign strategy, budget allocation, measurement frameworks, experimentation, and cross-functional roadmapping. Drive integrated paid campaigns, rapid testing, and alignment across marketing, product, design, data science, and finance to grow subscribers while preserving privacy-respecting practices.

Lead and own major components of DuckDuckGo's privacy technology using Go, Node.js, Python, and Perl. Design and implement privacy features, improve search and AI features without compromising privacy, build tracker-detection features, participate in privacy reviews and audits, and mentor engineers over time.