Senior Data Search Engineer — Remote Europe

Lever, Inc.; Netherlands; Remote; EUR 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Fully remote Europe

Flexible hours

Unlimited vacation

Professional development

Technical ownership

Regular offsites

Deep-work culture

Modern tech stack

Job summary

Lever, Inc. in the Netherlands is seeking a Senior Software Engineer – Data Search to join a global creator search platform, building and improving large-scale search systems handling hundreds of millions of profiles and media files.

You will own end-to-end search solutions from data pipelines to embedding-based retrieval and low-latency serving. You will design scalable distributed systems, evaluate new models, and collaborate with data, product, engineering, customers, and leadership in a

Qualifications

• Proven experience building large-scale data, backend, or search-oriented products where volume, latency, reliability, scalability, and cost are important.
• Demonstrated ability to take products from concept through architecture, implementation, production release, measurement, and iteration.
• Strong experience designing and working with distributed systems with throughput, data flows, scalability, and reliability considerations.
• Professional experience building LLM-powered or agentic features in production with understanding of model capabilities, latency, and cost.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work autonomously on ambiguous problems and drive actions from uncertainty.

Responsibilities

• 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 ideas from experimentation to production, balancing quality, latency, scalability and cost.
• Own technical problems end to end, from understanding customer needs to launching features and measuring outcomes.
• Diagnose and resolve relevance and performance issues across data, query logic, retrieval, ranking, models, and product decisions.
• Evaluate new models and technologies and identify where they can improve the search experience.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Node.js

Distributed systems

LLM integration

Tools

Elasticsearch

Milvus

PySpark

Airflow

SageMaker

Job description

Lever, Inc. in the Netherlands is seeking a Senior Software Engineer – Data Search to join a global creator search platform, building and improving large-scale search systems handling hundreds of millions of profiles and media files.

You will own end-to-end search solutions from data pipelines to embedding-based retrieval and low-latency serving. You will design scalable distributed systems, evaluate new models, and collaborate with data, product, engineering, customers, and leadership in a