Staff Backend Engineer, Search

Core Responsibilities

• Design and implement robust search solutions that scale with our rapidly growing user base
• Improve search relevance, accuracy, and speed to deliver the most relevant results to users at blazing fast speeds
• Improve real-time indexing pipelines to ensure search results remain up-to-date
• Create measurement frameworks to evaluate and improve search quality
• Build and enhance vector search capabilities to power next-generation search experiences
• Collaborate with AI, backend, and product teams to integrate search into new features
• Troubleshoot complex search-related issues at scale
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering best practices

Technical Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
• 7+ years of experience as a search engineer or in a directly related role
• Strong expertise in search technologies, particularly OpenSearch / ElasticSearch
• Experience measuring and optimizing search quality
• Experience with high-volume, distributed data processing systems
• Proven ability to optimize query parsing, indexing, and relevance tuning for search systems
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively across teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with vector embeddings and semantic search implementations
• Experience with TypeScript in backend systems
• Track record of architecting search solutions that maintain performance under heavy load
• Experience applying machine learning and NLP to enhance search relevance
• Knowledge of information retrieval concepts and search evaluation metrics