Head of Search Platform Engineering

Jobtailor; Illinois; On-site; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel up to 10%

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a seasoned software engineering leader to define a long-term vision for a scalable search platform. You will guide architecture, data handling, and ML-driven improvements while mentoring several engineering teams and collaborating with product partners across eCommerce and content search domains.

The role emphasizes headless framework design, API performance, and cloud deployment with DevOps practices. Travel up to 10% is expected.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering leadership across multiple teams.
• Experience delivering search platforms with high relevance and low latency.
• Proven ability to architect scalable, headless frameworks for web/mobile apps.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement a long-term technical vision for the search platform.
• Ensure scalability and adaptability to growing data volumes and query complexity.
• Recruit, manage, and mentor teams of software engineers and align objectives across groups.

Skills

Team leadership

Mentoring

Search product mgmt

NLP & ML for search

Java/Python/Scala

Cloud DevOps

Tools

OpenSearch

Elastic/Elasticsearch

SOLR

Lucene

Coveo

LucidWorks Fusion

AWS Memory-storage

AI code generation tools

CI/CD

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a seasoned software engineering leader to define a long-term vision for a scalable search platform. You will guide architecture, data handling, and ML-driven improvements while mentoring several engineering teams and collaborating with product partners across eCommerce and content search domains.

The role emphasizes headless framework design, API performance, and cloud deployment with DevOps practices. Travel up to 10% is expected.