6. Senior Software Engineer, Search
Role summary
A mission-driven organization is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Search to advance its search platform. This remote role involves partnering with ML, product, and engineering teams to enhance retrieval quality and latency. Responsibilities include designing technical strategy for search (full-text, vector databases, LLMs, NLP, relevance algorithms), improving performance through architectural and implementation enhancements, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate user needs into innovations. The ideal candidate will have 7+ years of backend experience, 3+ years in search/IR, strong expertise in NLP/ML, and hands-on experience with major search engines like Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.
Benefits You’ll Love
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Remote friendly with WeWork access
- Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year
- 401(k) match
- Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
- Salary top-up during military reserve duty
- Fully paid parental leave
- Child and pet care reimbursement during travel
Become a Key Player as a Senior Software Engineer, Search
You will help advance a mission-driven search platform that surfaces mission-critical information for decision makers. You will partner with ML, product, and engineering stakeholders to improve retrieval quality and latency, delivering measurable impact for the organization. This is a Remote role.
Here’s How You’ll Make an Impact on the Team
- Design and adapt the technical strategy for search across the product platform, including full-text search, vector databases, LLMs, NLP, and relevance algorithms
- Improve search latency and relevance through architecture and implementation improvements
- Collaborate with product engineers, designers, and mission strategists to translate user needs into data-informed search innovations
- Research and apply emerging technologies and best practices to improve index quality, freshness, and retrieval performance
Here’s What You’ll Need to Be Successful in This Role
- 7+ years of experience in backend software development
- 3+ years of experience in search, information retrieval, or related fields
- Strong expertise in information retrieval, NLP, and machine learning, including indexing, ranking, query parsing, tokenization, and vector search
- Hands-on experience with at least one major search engine (e.g., Elasticsearch, OpenSearch)
- Familiarity with search evaluation frameworks (e.g., precision, recall, NDCG)
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, leadership, and communication skills
- U.S. Person status (required to access U.S.-only data systems)
Pay Range
$150,000 - $215,000/year
Ready to Make Your Mark?
This role may fill quickly. Submit your resume to be considered.
