Senior Software Engineer, Vector & Relevance Search

Elastic; Lavamünd; Vor Ort; CHF 140.000 - 210.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Competitive pay

Health coverage

Flexible locations

Generous vacation

Volunteer time

Parental leave

Zusammenfassung

Elastic, the Search AI Company, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Search Relevance team. You will contribute to the technical direction of search capabilities, implement new features, and resolve complex bugs.

You will work with a globally distributed team, focusing on vector search and improving search relevance while writing idiomatic Java. This role emphasizes autonomy, collaboration, and delivering scalable software.

Qualifikationen

• Experience with search or vector databases at scale.
• Strong Java and standard library, concurrency, lambdas.
• Autonomous project ownership from design to delivery.
• Comfort with asynchronous collaboration across distributed teams.
• Familiarity with major data storage tech and search platforms.

Aufgaben

• Lead initiatives to deliver industry-leading search engine features.
• Implement new search features and fix bugs, optimizing for speed and relevance.
• Collaborate with globally distributed team on vector search capabilities.
• Identify improvements to search relevance based on data and intuition.
• Engage with community via issues and pull requests, triaging when needed.
• Write idiomatic modern Java; contribute to core Elasticsearch codebase.

Kenntnisse

Search/Vector databases

Core Java

Autonomous work

Collaborative development

Data storage tech

Tools

Elasticsearch

Solr

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Cassandra

Jobbeschreibung

Elastic, the Search AI Company, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Search Relevance team. You will contribute to the technical direction of search capabilities, implement new features, and resolve complex bugs.

You will work with a globally distributed team, focusing on vector search and improving search relevance while writing idiomatic Java. This role emphasizes autonomy, collaboration, and delivering scalable software.