Senior Software Engineer - Search Quality (Remote - United Kingdom)

TN United Kingdom; City of Edinburgh; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and innovative team dedicated to enhancing search quality through cutting-edge technology. This role offers the chance to work on impactful projects that directly affect millions of users. You'll collaborate with talented engineers to build and optimize backend systems, leveraging your expertise in object-oriented programming and cloud services. Enjoy a flexible work environment, competitive salary, and numerous perks, including health insurance and generous holiday allowances. If you're passionate about solving complex challenges and driving innovation in search technology, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Pension scheme

Employee stock purchase plan

25 days paid holiday

Remote working reimbursement

Caregiver reimbursement

Private health insurance

Flexible working hours

Hackathons and learning groups

Wellness expenses reimbursement

Qualifications

• Experience in backend development with a focus on search systems.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming and databases.

Responsibilities

• Build and support backend platforms for prototyping and testing search systems.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to enhance search capabilities.

Skills

Fluency in an object-oriented language (Python or Java)

Experience with databases (SQL and NoSQL)

Unix

Continuous Integration/Deployment

AWS services (S3, Glue, Athena)

Building large-scale distributed systems

Building effective APIs (REST or GraphQL)

Performance analysis tools

Excellent documentation skills

Interest in data-intensive applications

Job description

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Senior Software Engineer - Search Quality (Remote - United Kingdom), Edinburgh

Client: Yelp

Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Reference: 1807336685cc

Job Views: 8

Posted: 26.04.2025

Expiry Date: 10.06.2025

Job Description:

Summary

Yelp engineering culture is driven by our values: we’re a cooperative team that values individual authenticity and encourages creative solutions to problems. All new engineers deploy working code their first week, and we strive to broaden individual impact with support from managers, mentors, and teams. At the end of the day, we’re all about helping our users, growing as engineers, and having fun in a collaborative environment.

At Yelp, we’re dedicated to delivering the most relevant search results by leveraging cutting-edge techniques in machine learning, data mining, and backend engineering. Our engineers play a key role in improving search recall, enriching results with contextual annotations, and optimizing search data pipelines. Their work directly impacts millions of users, helping them find the best local businesses with smarter, more intuitive search experiences. If you're excited about solving complex recall challenges, scaling search infrastructure, and driving innovation in search relevance, we’d love to have you on board!

The Search Quality team is looking for a data-oriented backend engineer to build and improve our internal systems to better support prototyping, testing, and scaling the next generation of Search with us. You’ll be working closely with engineers on multiple teams to orchestrate a seamless development, testing, and shipping experience that will help bring us closer to our long-term goals.

This opportunity requires you to be located in the United Kingdom. We’d love to have you apply, even if you don’t feel you meet every single requirement in this posting. At Yelp, we’re looking for great people, not just those who simply check off all the boxes.

What you'll do:

• Build, extend, and support our backend platforms to support prototyping, testing, and scaling our Search systems.
• Work closely with product-focused backend engineers on the team to build efficient systems for Search Annotations, Recall, and LLM-backed search experiences in general.
• Team up with other engineering groups, such as Ads and Market Engineering, to build cohesive backend systems that support our shared visions.
• Contribute to our next gen, smarter search roadmap, vision, and execution.

What it takes to succeed:

• Fluency in an object-oriented language (like Python or Java)
• Experience with databases (SQL and NoSQL), Unix, developing within a Continuous Integration/Deployment pipeline.
• Proficient in AWS services such as S3, Glue, Athena.
• Skilled in building and supporting large-scale distributed systems that back a consumer app or website.
• Expertise in building effective APIs (like REST or GraphQL).
• Comfortable with performance analysis tools (e.g., tracers, profilers, debuggers, visualization tools).
• Capable of working and coordinating requirements across teams.
• Excellent documentation skills.
• Interest or experience in developing infrastructure supporting data-intensive applications.

What you'll get:

• Full responsibility for projects from day one, a collaborative team, and a dynamic work environment.
• Competitive salary, a pension scheme, and an optional employee stock purchase plan.
• 25 days paid holiday (rising to 29 with service), plus one floating holiday.
• £150 monthly reimbursement to help cover remote working expenses.
• £81 caregiver reimbursement to support dependent care for families.
• Private health insurance, including dental and vision.
• Flexible working hours and meeting-free Wednesdays.
• Regular 3-day Hackathons, bi-weekly learning groups, and productivity spending to support and encourage your career growth.
• Opportunities to participate in digital events and conferences.
• £81 per month to use toward qualifying wellness expenses.
• Quarterly team offsites.

We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences. Join us in building innovative search solutions that impact millions!