Senior Data Search Engineer — Remote Europe

Lever, Inc.; Italia; Remoto; EUR 100.000 - 130.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Competitive pay

Equity compensation

Fully remote in Europe

Flexible hours

Unlimited vacation

Personal development support

Technical ownership

Regular offsites

Fast-moving environment

Modern tech stack

Efficient hiring

Descrizione del lavoro

Lever, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer – Data Search based in Italy to advance a large-scale creator search experience used by thousands of businesses worldwide.

You will work across the full search stack, from data pipelines to embeddings, ranking, and low-latency serving. You will own features end to end, collaborating with data, product, engineering, customers, and leadership in a fast-moving, async-first environment.

Competenze

• Proven experience building large-scale data, backend, or search‑oriented products where volume, latency, reliability, scalability, and cost are important considerations.
• Demonstrated ability to take products or substantial technical initiatives from concept through architecture, implementation, production release, measurement, and iteration.
• Strong experience designing and working with distributed systems, including understanding throughput, data flows, scalability, failure modes, reliability, and operational tradeoffs.
• Professional experience building LLM‑powered or agentic features in production, with a practical understanding of model capabilities, limitations, latency, and cost.
• Strong problem‑solving skills and the ability to work autonomously on ambiguous problems, gather missing context, ask effective questions, and turn uncertainty into action.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts and tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

Mansioni

• Improve creator discovery across hundreds of millions of profiles and billions of media files by enhancing retrieval, filtering, ranking, relevance, performance, and the overall search experience.
• Design and build systems that generate and leverage multimodal embeddings from images, video, text, and audio at large scale.
• Develop new search capabilities and take promising ideas from experimentation to reliable production systems, balancing search quality, latency, scalability, and cost.
• Own technical problems end to end, including understanding customer needs, gathering requirements, defining solutions, designing architecture, writing code, launching features, measuring outcomes, and iterating based on evidence.
• Diagnose and resolve relevance and performance issues across data, query logic, retrieval, ranking, models, and product decisions.
• Evaluate new models and technologies pragmatically, understanding their tradeoffs and identifying where they can create meaningful improvements to the search experience.
• Work closely with data and product teams to introduce new datasets, datapoints, and search capabilities while ensuring appropriate coverage and data quality.
• Contribute to technical direction and system architecture while maintaining reliable, scalable, and maintainable production services.
• Share findings, technical insights, and learnings with colleagues and contribute to a culture of strong engineering practices and continuous improvement.

Conoscenze

Python

TypeScript

Node.js

LLM/AI features

Distributed systems

Search/Ranking

Strumenti

Elasticsearch

Milvus/Zilliz

PySpark

Airflow

SageMaker

Kinesis

Descrizione del lavoro

Lever, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer – Data Search based in Italy to advance a large-scale creator search experience used by thousands of businesses worldwide.

You will work across the full search stack, from data pipelines to embeddings, ranking, and low-latency serving. You will own features end to end, collaborating with data, product, engineering, customers, and leadership in a fast-moving, async-first environment.