Senior Backend & Vector Search Engineer (Remote)

Showcify

United States

Remote

USD 130,000 - 180,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

ClickUp is seeking a talented and experienced Senior Search Engineer to join our team and help revolutionize our search capabilities. You will design, optimize, and scale search infrastructure across real-time ingestion and serving, built on Postgres and OpenSearch.

Collaborate with AI, backend, and product teams to integrate search into new features and drive improvements in relevance and speed. We value hands-on expertise with large-scale data, vector search, and machine learning applications

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience as a search engineer or in a directly related role.
  • Hands-on production experience with OpenSearch or Elasticsearch (strongly preferred). Solr experience considered but less ideal.
  • Experience with high-scale, real-time data ingestion and search serving in a backend services context.
  • Proven ability to optimize query parsing, indexing, and relevance tuning for search systems.
  • Experience measuring and optimizing search quality.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement robust search solutions that scale with our rapidly growing user base.
  • Improve search relevance, accuracy, and speed to deliver the most relevant results to users at blazing fast speeds.
  • Improve real-time indexing pipelines to ensure search results remain up-to-date.
  • Create measurement frameworks to evaluate and improve search quality.
  • Build and enhance vector search capabilities to power next-generation search experiences.
  • Collaborate with AI, backend, and product teams to integrate search into new features.
  • Troubleshoot complex search-related issues at scale.

Skills

Senior search engineering
Data ingestion
Query optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

OpenSearch
Elasticsearch
Solr
TypeScript (backend)

Job description

ClickUp is seeking a talented and experienced Senior Search Engineer to join our team and help revolutionize our search capabilities. You will design, optimize, and scale search infrastructure across real-time ingestion and serving, built on Postgres and OpenSearch.

Collaborate with AI, backend, and product teams to integrate search into new features and drive improvements in relevance and speed. We value hands-on expertise with large-scale data, vector search, and machine learning applications

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