Senior Elasticsearch/Scala Engineer - Search & AI Infra

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

Job summary

Solvd Inc. is a rapidly growing AI-native consulting and technology services firm delivering enterprise transformation across cloud, data, software engineering, and AI.

We seek a Senior Software Engineer (Elasticsearch, Scala) to join a team powering food search and logging for a leading health platform. You will build and maintain backend services, tune search performance in Elasticsearch, and work across data stores with MySQL, MongoDB, and Redis.

Qualifications

• Proven track record building backend services in production.
• Strong experience with search architectures and Elasticsearch.
• Experience tuning performance and relevance at scale.
• Collaborative mindset and ability to work with product and leadership.

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.
• Demonstrated experience with performance tuning, query analysis, and relevance optimization in Elasticsearch at scale.
• Familiarity with high availability, disaster recovery, and operational monitoring for Elasticsearch clusters.
• Strong experience writing, shipping, and maintaining Scala services in production.
• Comfortable working across a stack that also includes SQL and Python - Scala is the primary language for this engagement.
• Active user of AI development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or comparable AI-powered coding environments - shipping production code with them, not just using autocomplete.
• Familiarity with agentic coding patterns and workflows - code generation, refactoring, debugging, and test authoring.
• Able to articulate how AI tooling fits into their development process and where human judgment remains critical.
• First-hand experience building, scaling, and supporting large-scale data infrastructure systems in production.
• Strong understanding of database design, data architecture, and performance tuning across multiple data stores - MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis, or similar.
• Familiarity with AWS, GCP, or other cloud platforms.
• Experience leveraging AI workflows for meaningful development acceleration beyond autocomplete - code generation, refactoring, debugging, and test authoring at scale.

Skills

Backend engineering

Scala programming

Search systems

Performance tuning

Tools

Elasticsearch

SQL

Python

MySQL

MongoDB

Redis

DynamoDB

AWS

GCP

Job description

Solvd Inc. is a rapidly growing AI-native consulting and technology services firm delivering enterprise transformation across cloud, data, software engineering, and AI.

We seek a Senior Software Engineer (Elasticsearch, Scala) to join a team powering food search and logging for a leading health platform. You will build and maintain backend services, tune search performance in Elasticsearch, and work across data stores with MySQL, MongoDB, and Redis.