Senior JVM Search Backend Engineer

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

Job summary

commercetools is looking for a Senior Search Engineer to join our Search Foundation Team. You will develop a modern, integrated search experience for our customers, providing a search API for product discovery and the foundations of search across domains.

In this role you will design and implement search functionalities in a PaaS ecommerce Scala backend, learn Scala, and work with ElasticSearch and MongoDB. You will operate Kubernetes infrastructure with Terraform in a multi-tenant setup.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as Software Engineer on JVM languages.
• Experience with search, preferably Elasticsearch.
• Strong DevOps mindset and infrastructure improvement.
• Experience with Scala and functional programming.
• REST API development and scalable architectures.
• Fluent English in international teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement search functionalities in a JVM-based backend.
• Learn Scala and functional programming.
• Develop libraries based on Elasticsearch and MongoDB.
• Run infrastructure as code on Kubernetes using Terraform.
• Test components for usability, functionality, and performance.
• Participate in on-call rotations with a distributed team.

Skills

Scala

Elasticsearch

REST APIs

JVM

DevOps

Asynchronous programming

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

Rust

Job description

commercetools is looking for a Senior Search Engineer to join our Search Foundation Team. You will develop a modern, integrated search experience for our customers, providing a search API for product discovery and the foundations of search across domains.

In this role you will design and implement search functionalities in a PaaS ecommerce Scala backend, learn Scala, and work with ElasticSearch and MongoDB. You will operate Kubernetes infrastructure with Terraform in a multi-tenant setup.