Senior Backend Software Engineer, Search

• Own the search service end-to-end: index design, query pipelines, relevance tuning, cluster health, scaling, and upgrades of our OpenSearch infrastructure.
• Drive important technical discussions around search architecture, hybrid retrieval strategies, embedding model selection, scoring/normalization pipelines, and personalization.
• Work closely with engineering leads and product stakeholders to translate business requirements into performant search features.
• Contribute directly to feature development across the search stack: document mapping, query builders, function scoring, KNN vector search, and text embeddings inference sidecar.
• Incorporate AI-powered development tools into daily workflows to accelerate prototyping, code review, debugging, and documentation.
• Help raise the bar on code quality and enforce engineering discipline through code review feedback, testing, technical presentations, and opportunistic refactoring.
• Participate in the interview process for engineering candidates and contribute to hiring decisions.

• 5+ yrs of commercial software development experience
• 3+ yrs of hands-on experience with OpenSearch or Elasticsearch
• 2+ yrs of experience with semantic/vector search techniques
• 3+ yrs of experience using Python
• 2+ yrs of experience building and tuning search relevance
• 2+ yrs of experience troubleshooting production issues in search or data-intensive systems
• Active experience using AI-powered developer tools

Pay range: $168K - $210K

• Remote-first: work from home or anywhere in the U.S.
• Equity
• Unlimited vacation policy
• Universal paid parental leave
• Monthly Hungryroot credit for groceries
• Comprehensive health, vision, dental, and life insurance
• 401k with Company Match
• Work from home stipend