Senior Search Backend Engineer - Scala & ElasticSearch

Commercetools; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health benefits

Annual learning budget and development

Family Leave Plus

equity participation

Job summary

commercetools in London is seeking a Senior Search Engineer to build a modern, integrated search experience for product discovery. You will provide a search API and support foundations across domains, working within a distributed team.

The role emphasizes learning Scala, DevOps-driven infrastructure, and implementing search libraries with ElasticSearch and MongoDB, while maintaining an on-call rotation for production systems. This is a hybrid role with office days in London.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering on JVM.
• Experience with search (ElasticSearch preferred).
• Strong DevOps mindset and infrastructure improvement experience.
• Interest in Scala and functional programming patterns.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement search functionalities in a JVM-based PaaS ecommerce backend.
• Learn Scala and functional programming as your main development tools.
• Develop search libraries based on ElasticSearch and MongoDB.
• Run and maintain scalable infrastructure as code on Kubernetes using Terraform and multi-tenant architecture.
• Test components for usability, functionality, and performance with Product Management and DevOps.
• Participate in on-call rotation for production systems.

Skills

JVM languages

ElasticSearch

Scala

DevOps

REST APIs

Non-blocking I/O

Distributed systems

English fluency

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

MongoDB

Job description

commercetools in London is seeking a Senior Search Engineer to build a modern, integrated search experience for product discovery. You will provide a search API and support foundations across domains, working within a distributed team.

The role emphasizes learning Scala, DevOps-driven infrastructure, and implementing search libraries with ElasticSearch and MongoDB, while maintaining an on-call rotation for production systems. This is a hybrid role with office days in London.