Senior AI Search Engineer – Discovery Platform

commercetools; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits and wellbeing

Learning and development budget

Parental leave (Family Leave Plus)

Equity participation

Job summary

commercetools is seeking a Senior Search Engineer for its Discovery Team in a hybrid setup. You will design and implement fast, scalable search capabilities in a PaaS ecommerce backend, contributing from query understanding to vector indices.

You’ll work with a distributed team, improving retrieval and AI-driven search for leading brands. The role emphasizes building in a scalable, multi-tenant system, collaborating with product management and devops, and being on-call for production services.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer working in search.
• Experience with building search solutions on top of engines such as Elasticsearch (preferred), Solr, OpenSearch, or similar.
• Fluent English communication skills to work in international teams.
• AI Aptitude: curiosity for using AI tools to work smarter and more effectively.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement search functionalities in a PaaS ecommerce Scala backend.
• Develop in a scalable and multi-tenant architecture.
• Analyze user needs and discuss technical approaches.
• Test software components for usability, functionality, and performance, and collaborate with Product Management and DevOps.
• Take part in on-call rotations with a worldwide distributed team for production systems.

Skills

Search engineering

Elasticsearch

OpenSearch

Solr

Scala

English fluency

AI aptitude

Tools

Kubernetes

Rust

Helm

Job description

commercetools is seeking a Senior Search Engineer for its Discovery Team in a hybrid setup. You will design and implement fast, scalable search capabilities in a PaaS ecommerce backend, contributing from query understanding to vector indices.

You’ll work with a distributed team, improving retrieval and AI-driven search for leading brands. The role emphasizes building in a scalable, multi-tenant system, collaborating with product management and devops, and being on-call for production services.