Senior Elasticsearch & Scala Engineer for AI-Powered Search

Solvd; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Solvd is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Elasticsearch, Scala) to join a team powering health and nutrition search platforms. You will contribute to backend services, search infrastructure, and experimentation to improve core metrics.

You will work with Elasticsearch at scale, design data models, and collaborate across engineering, product, and leadership to deliver reliable, high-quality search experiences.

Qualifications

• Elasticsearch performance tuning, indexing design, and relevance optimization at scale.
• Production-grade Scala services; proficient with SQL and Python in a multi-datastore environment.
• Experience with large-scale data infrastructure and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP).

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain backend services powering the food search experience, integrating with systems across the broader engineering organization.
• Tune Elasticsearch performance end-to-end: data design, indexing, query evaluation, and iterative improvement.
• Assist in evaluating and implementing search and data technologies to improve result quality and user experience.
• Collaborate with senior search engineers, product management, and leadership on solution discovery and experiments.
• Develop tools, processes, and metrics for measuring and monitoring search quality.

Skills

Elasticsearch

Scala

Agentic development

Engineering fundamentals

Tools

SQL

Python

Kafka

AWS

GCP

Job description

Solvd is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Elasticsearch, Scala) to join a team powering health and nutrition search platforms. You will contribute to backend services, search infrastructure, and experimentation to improve core metrics.

You will work with Elasticsearch at scale, design data models, and collaborate across engineering, product, and leadership to deliver reliable, high-quality search experiences.