Senior AI Search Engineer - Remote Impact

Muck Rack; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly team

Fully distributed company

Home office stipend

Job summary

Muck Rack is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Search & AI, to advance customer-facing search experiences and the backend systems that power them. You will work across the stack, with emphasis on frontend, collaborating with Product and Design to deliver intuitive, scalable search governed by reliable data services.

You’ll build AI-powered experiences end to end, push for performance, reliability, and maintainability, and participate in on-call rotations to keep systems healthy for users

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and maintaining production software.
• Strong experience across frontend and backend systems and independently delivering features.
• Proficiency with Python or a similar language and Django or a comparable web framework.
• Experience building polished, maintainable user-facing applications with Vue.js or another modern JavaScript framework.
• Experience with Elasticsearch or a comparable search technology.
• Experience making technical trade-offs within complex production systems.
• Experience diagnosing production issues and contributing to reliability of systems.
• Experience with TypeScript in a large codebase.
• Experience with design systems or shared component libraries.
• Flexibility to adjust working hours for overlap with US time zones.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver customer-facing search features and workflows across frontend and backend systems.
• Build AI-powered product experiences end to end, from services to interfaces.
• Build intuitive, responsive user experiences using Vue while contributing to Python/Django services.
• Design and improve search, indexing, and retrieval systems for high-quality content discovery.
• Build and maintain features and data workflows with Elasticsearch, Kafka, Celery, and MySQL.
• Make technical trade-offs balancing UX, delivery speed, performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and engineering to shape solutions and deliver quality experiences.
• Troubleshoot production issues and improve performance, reliability, observability, and maintainability.
• Participate in on-call and incident response to improve system reliability.

Skills

Python

Django

Vue.js

Elasticsearch

Kafka

MySQL

TypeScript

Design systems

Time zone overlap

Tools

Kafka

MySQL

Job description

Muck Rack is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Search & AI, to advance customer-facing search experiences and the backend systems that power them. You will work across the stack, with emphasis on frontend, collaborating with Product and Design to deliver intuitive, scalable search governed by reliable data services.

You’ll build AI-powered experiences end to end, push for performance, reliability, and maintainability, and participate in on-call rotations to keep systems healthy for users