Senior Search Engineer - Geospatial & Embeddings

amo; Paris; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care (100% coverage)

Maternity Leave, Paternity Leave, and

8-9 weeks vacation per year

Job summary

amo in Paris is seeking a senior search engineer to build and scale production search across multiple entity types, delivering robust and fast results.

You will work on geospatial search, indexing, query planning, retrieval, and ranking, collaborating closely with backend and product teams to ship improvements.

The role emphasizes latency, relevance, and quality metrics, with opportunities to explore semantic search and embeddings in production.

Qualifications

• Senior-level experience building production search systems.
• Strong understanding of indexing, query planning, retrieval, and ranking.
• Experience with geospatial search.
• Experience with search quality metrics, experimentation, and feedback loops.
• Experience evaluating, tuning, extending, or building search/indexing systems beyond basic API usage.
• Strong backend engineering fundamentals.
• Ability to reason about latency, relevance, correctness, and scale.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve search across multiple entity types.
• Work on geospatial search, indexing, query planning, retrieval, and ranking.
• Design metrics and feedback loops for search quality.
• Run offline evaluations and production experiments.
• Tune results using relevance, popularity, personalization, and contextual signals.
• Explore semantic or embedding-based search where useful.
• Work closely with backend and product teams to ship search improvements.

Skills

Senior-level experience

Geospatial search

Indexing

Query planning

Retrieval & ranking

Search quality metrics

Experimentation

Latency considerations

Backend fundamentals

Embeddings (optional)

Tools

Rust

Job description

amo in Paris is seeking a senior search engineer to build and scale production search across multiple entity types, delivering robust and fast results.

You will work on geospatial search, indexing, query planning, retrieval, and ranking, collaborating closely with backend and product teams to ship improvements.

The role emphasizes latency, relevance, and quality metrics, with opportunities to explore semantic search and embeddings in production.