Senior Search Backend Engineer (m/f/x)

📋 Description

• Design and implement search functionalities in a PaaS ecommerce Scala backend
• Develop search capabilities that combine lexical, semantic, and hybrid retrieval
• Develop search-related libraries based on ElasticSearch and MongoDB
• Contribute to search relevance and quality, and to how we measure it
• Run and maintain a scalable search “infrastructure as code” on top of Kubernetes using terraform
• Test software components regarding usability, functionality, and performance, and work closely with

🎯 Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience as a Software Engineer, with production experience on the JVM
• Solid understanding of parallel and asynchronous programming, as well as non-blocking I/O
• Experience developing REST APIs and knowledge of scalable architectures, including sharding
• Interest in working with Scala using pragmatic functional programming patterns. If you come from
• Fluent English for work in international teams
• Experience operating multi-tenant SaaS where one tenant’s load must never affect another’s

🎁 Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits for you and your dependents, including access to OpenUp for
• Learning and development opportunities including an annual learning budget, access to self-paced
• Family Leave Plus gives you additional fully paid weeks of parental leave on top of
• Our equity participation program allows you to share in our success