Senior Software Engineer, Search & AI

muckrack; Stati Uniti; Remoto; USD 150.000 - 190.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Fully distributed

Learning resources

Development time off

Performance reviews

Workshops

Leadership training

Descrizione del lavoro

muckrack is seeking a senior full-stack developer to build and evolve customer-facing search and AI features. You’ll work across the stack with a focus on frontend, taking work from planning to production in close collaboration with product, design, and engineering teams.

You will deliver search workflows, build AI-powered experiences, and contribute to Vue frontends as well as Python and Django services. Expect work on indexing and large data sets with modern tooling.

Competenze

• Minimum five years of professional experience building and maintaining production software.
• Ability to deliver features across frontend and backend systems independently.
• Proficiency in Python with Django or a similar web framework.
• Experience building polished applications with Vue or a modern JavaScript framework.
• Experience with search technologies such as Elasticsearch or equivalent.
• Experience with TypeScript in a large codebase and with design systems or shared components.
• Ability to overlap hours with US time zones.

Mansioni

• Deliver search features across frontend and backend services from planning through release.
• Build AI-powered experiences and interfaces that present results clearly.
• Develop responsive UI in Vue and contribute to Python/Django services.
• Improve search, indexing, and retrieval across large data sets.
• Maintain data workflows using Elasticsearch, Kafka, Celery, and MySQL.
• Troubleshoot production issues and contribute to reliability and on-call responses.

Conoscenze

Frontend and Backend development

Python

Vue.js

TypeScript

Django

Strumenti

Elasticsearch

Kafka

Celery

MySQL

Descrizione del lavoro

Role overview

Build and evolve customer-facing search and AI features, along with the backend systems that make content discovery useful and dependable. You’ll work across the stack, with a slight emphasis on frontend development, taking work from technical planning through production in close partnership with product, design, and engineering colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Deliver search features and workflows across frontend and backend services, from planning through release.
• Build AI-powered experiences, including the services that produce results and interfaces that present them clearly.
• Develop responsive user interfaces in Vue and contribute to Python and Django services.
• Improve search, indexing, and retrieval across large collections of data.
• Maintain data workflows and application features using tools such as Elasticsearch, Kafka, Celery, and MySQL.
• Troubleshoot production issues and improve performance, observability, reliability, and maintainability; participate in on-call and incident response.

Requirements

• At least five years of professional experience building and maintaining production software.
• Ability to deliver features across frontend and backend systems independently.
• Proficiency in Python or a comparable language, with Django or a similar web framework experience.
• Experience building polished applications with Vue or another modern JavaScript framework.
• Experience with Elasticsearch or comparable search technology, or substantial work on data-intensive systems.
• Sound judgment in production trade-offs and experience diagnosing operational issues.
• Experience with TypeScript in a large codebase and with design systems or shared component libraries.
• Flexibility to adjust work hours to overlap with teammates in US time zones.

Nice to have

• Kafka or other event-streaming tools; relational databases such as MySQL or Postgres; Celery or other asynchronous processing systems.
• Experience in search, discovery, indexing, high-traffic SaaS, large-scale data systems, or complex frontend workflows.

Benefits and work setup

The role is described as fully distributed, with hiring-location limits. The source also mentions learning resources, additional learning and development time off, performance reviews, workshops, and leadership training.