Hybrid Senior Backend Engineer, Discovery AI & Search Infra

Faire; Kitchener; Hybrid; CAD 216,000 - 297,000; Full time

Job summary

A local technology company in Kitchener is seeking a technical leader for the Discovery Infra and Enablement team. The role involves building and optimizing AI infrastructure for search applications. Candidates should have extensive experience in distributed systems, search frameworks, and a strong programming background. The position offers a competitive salary and the option for hybrid work arrangements.

Benefits

Equity options

Flexible remote work

Work-life balance initiatives

Qualifications

• 8+ years of industry experience building distributed systems.
• 5+ years working on search or query understanding systems.
• Expertise with search indexing and retrieval.

Responsibilities

• Build and optimize the Discovery Search and AI stack.
• Lead design of natural language search systems.
• Collaborate with teams to translate business needs into tech solutions.

Skills

Distributed systems

Search frameworks

Machine learning

Technical leadership

Programming (Java, Kotlin, Go, Python)

Tools

Elasticsearch

Lucene

Solr

FAISS

TensorFlow Serving

Job description

A local technology company in Kitchener is seeking a technical leader for the Discovery Infra and Enablement team. The role involves building and optimizing AI infrastructure for search applications. Candidates should have extensive experience in distributed systems, search frameworks, and a strong programming background. The position offers a competitive salary and the option for hybrid work arrangements.