Senior Software Engineer, Search & AI (Fully Distributed)

muckrack; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully distributed

Learning resources

Development time off

Performance reviews

Workshops

Leadership training

Job summary

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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Frontend and Backend development

Python

Vue.js

TypeScript

Django

Tools

Elasticsearch

Kafka

Celery

MySQL

Job description

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.