Senior Scala Search Backend Engineer

commercetools; Valencia; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Learning budget

Family leave

Equity program

Job summary

commercetools is seeking a Senior Search Engineer to build a modern, integrated search experience for customers. You will provide a search API for product discovery and foundational search capabilities across domains.

You will design and implement search functionalities in a PaaS ecommerce Scala backend, learn Scala, and develop libraries based on ElasticSearch and MongoDB. This role involves running infrastructure on Kubernetes with Terraform and participating in on-call rotations with a

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience as a Software Engineer on JVM-based stacks.
• Experience with search technologies, preferably ElasticSearch.
• Strong DevOps mindset driving infrastructure improvements.
• Pragmatic functional programming with Scala is a plus.
• Experience building server-side systems using the JVM and REST APIs.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement search functionalities in a Scala backend on a PaaS.
• Learn Scala and functional programming as primary tools.
• Develop search libraries based on ElasticSearch and MongoDB.
• Run and maintain scalable infrastructure on Kubernetes using Terraform.
• Test components for usability, functionality and performance; participate in on-call rotations.

Skills

JVM languages

ElasticSearch

Scala

REST APIs

DevOps mindset

Async programming

Non-blocking I/O

Distributed systems

English fluent

AI tools interest

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Helm

Rust

Job description

commercetools is seeking a Senior Search Engineer to build a modern, integrated search experience for customers. You will provide a search API for product discovery and foundational search capabilities across domains.

You will design and implement search functionalities in a PaaS ecommerce Scala backend, learn Scala, and develop libraries based on ElasticSearch and MongoDB. This role involves running infrastructure on Kubernetes with Terraform and participating in on-call rotations with a