Senior Search Backend Engineer

• As our Senior Search Engineer, you’ll support the Search Foundation Team by developing a modern, integrated search experience for our customers, providing them with a search API for product discovery and the foundations of search capabilities across domains
• Design and implement search functionalities in a PaaS ecommerce Scala backend
• Learn Scala and functional programming as your new main development tools
• Develop search-related libraries based on ElasticSearch and MongoDB
• Run and maintain a scalable search “infrastructure as code” on top of Kubernetes using terraform and multi-tenant architecture
• Test software components regarding usability, functionality, and performance, and work closely with Product Management and DevOps
• Taking part in on-call rotation (with the worldwide distributed team) for production systems
• Take part in on-call rotations with a worldwide distributed team for production systems

Benefits

• 100% covered premiums for medical, dental, and vision insurance for you, dependents, and spouse/partner
• Generous time off package including PTO, parental leave, company holidays, sick time, and volunteer time off
• Monthly health membership and phone stipend
• Compensation benefits including 401K company match and an annual professional development stipend
• Flexible, family-friendly working hours - we are a remote first company
• You’re a creative problem-solver who is wired to find solutions
• You confidently dive into complex challenges and have a talent for making them simple for others
• Your curiosity drives you to constantly grow and contribute to an environment of trust and teamwork
• Great ideas come from many paths, and your unique perspective matters more than checking every box. What matters most is the mindset you bring to the work
• Practical work experience in developing server-side systems using the JVM
• Interest in working with Scala using pragmatic functional programming patterns
• Experience in developing REST APIs and knowledge of scalable architectures (incl. sharding, replication, load balancing and failover)
• Strong DevOps mindset as you will drive lots of infrastructure improvements
• Solid understanding of parallel and asynchronous programming, as well as non-blocking I/O
• At least 5 years of experience as a Software Engineer working with languages on the JVM
• Search-related experience (preferably ElasticSearch)
• A genuine curiosity for using AI tools to work smarter and more effectively, paired with a drive to learn and put them into practice in your role
• Fluent English for work in international teams
• Experience developing REST APIs and knowledge of scalable event-driven architectures (incl., queues, notification topics, sharding, replication, load balancing, and failover)
• Experience with infrastructure work and other technologies like Helm, Kubernetes, and Rus
• Experience working with Scala or other functional programming languages