Senior AI Search engineer

As a Senior Search Engineer on our Discovery Team, you will build the retrieval layer behind product discovery for some of the world's most demanding commerce brands. Search is changing shape—shoppers type full sentences instead of keywords, and increasingly the client calling our API is an AI agent rather than a person.

What you'll do

• Design and implement search functionalities in a PaaS ecommerce Scala backend.
• Develop in a scalable and multi-tenant architecture.
• Analyze user needs and discuss technical approaches.
• Test software components regarding usability, functionality, and performance, and work closely with Product Management and DevOps.
• Take part in on-call rotations with a worldwide distributed team for production systems.

What you'll need

• 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer working in search.
• Experience with building search solutions on top of engines, such as Elasticsearch (preferred), Solr, OpenSearch, or similar.
• Aspiration to constantly improve yourself and learn new technologies, concepts, etc.
• Fluent English communication skills to work in international teams.
• AI Aptitude: 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.

Nice to have

• Experience using modern search stacks and strategies to optimize search relevance (Vector and Hybrid Search, Learning to rank, Re-ranker).
• Experience developing REST APIs and knowledge of scalable event-driven architectures.
• Experience working with Scala or other functional programming languages.
• Experience with infrastructure work and other technologies like Helm, Kubernetes, and Rust.

What they offer

• Comprehensive health benefits for you and your dependents, including access to OpenUp for personalized mental health support.
• Learning and development opportunities including an annual learning budget, access to self-paced learning platforms and language training.
• Family Leave Plus—additional fully paid weeks of parental leave on top of government-provided leave.
• Equity participation program to share in company success.