Senior Elasticsearch/Scala Engineer for AI-Powered Search

Solvd; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Solvd is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Elasticsearch, Scala) to power the food search and logging for a leading health and nutrition platform. You will help build backend services, optimize search performance, and scale data infrastructure across MySQL, MongoDB, and DynamoDB.

You’ll collaborate with senior engineers, product management, and leadership to plan experiments, improve relevance, and ship production code using Scala, SQL, and Python in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to, build, and maintain backend services that drive the food search experience, integrating with systems across the broader engineering organization.
• Perform search performance tuning end-to-end — data design, indexing, query evaluation, and iterative improvement within Elasticsearch.
• Assist in the evaluation and implementation of search and data technologies that improve result quality and user experience.
• Collaborate closely with senior search engineers, product management, and leadership on solution discovery, experiment planning, and delivery.
• Contribute to the development of tools, processes, and metrics for measuring and monitoring search quality.

Skills

Elasticsearch

Scala

Backend services

Performance tuning

Data modeling

SQL

Python

Cloud platforms

AI tooling

Tools

MySQL

MongoDB

DynamoDB

Redis

AWS

GCP

Job description

Solvd is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Elasticsearch, Scala) to power the food search and logging for a leading health and nutrition platform. You will help build backend services, optimize search performance, and scale data infrastructure across MySQL, MongoDB, and DynamoDB.

You’ll collaborate with senior engineers, product management, and leadership to plan experiments, improve relevance, and ship production code using Scala, SQL, and Python in production environments.