Senior Software Engineer - Scalable Search & Data Platforms

Enigma Technologies; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 295,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Enigma Technologies is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Match Team and help shape the next generation of our customer-facing data products. You will architect, build, and maintain scalable search and retrieval systems powering fast, reliable access across cloud environments.

This role emphasizes hands-on design, performance tuning, and collaboration with product and clients to deliver impactful data services.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong Python programming proficiency and cloud experience (AWS preferred).
• Experience designing, tuning, and operating high-scale backend systems, APIs, or data delivery platforms.
• Production-level expertise in two or more of: distributed systems, information retrieval, or high-scale API development.
• Collaborates with product managers, engineers, and client stakeholders to solve problems.
• Clear communication of technical concepts and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Thrives in collaborative environments with strong ownership and fast iteration cycles.
• Driven to work with customers to impact the real world.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable, highly-available, high-throughput, highly maintainable systems, deployed in cloud environments.
• Design and build low-latency, high-throughput search APIs, indexing pipelines, and retrieval systems using Python, Typesense, and AWS.
• Evaluate and evolve our search technology stack, driving technical design decisions across retrieval architecture, indexing strategies, and system performance tradeoffs.
• Solve problems with containers, cloud infrastructure, and infrastructure as code (we use Docker, AWS, and Terraform).
• Lead end-to-end work from design and implementation through productionization and customer-facing delivery.
• Detect and investigate anomalies in system performance and data freshness, tracing issues to root cause.
• Pride themselves on writing highly readable, thoroughly tested code.
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and client stakeholders to improve search experience and discoverability.
• Mentor teammates and help raise the bar for system design and operational excellence.

Skills

Python

AWS

Distributed systems

APIs

Information retrieval

Tools

Typesense

Elasticsearch/OpenSearchFAISS

Docker

Terraform

Job description

Enigma Technologies is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Match Team and help shape the next generation of our customer-facing data products. You will architect, build, and maintain scalable search and retrieval systems powering fast, reliable access across cloud environments.

This role emphasizes hands-on design, performance tuning, and collaboration with product and clients to deliver impactful data services.