Senior Software Engineer - Search & Discovery (Remote-Friendly)

Office-Hours; United States; Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

401(k)

Monthly wellness and fitness stipend

Paid time off policy and holidays

Annual company off-sites

Remote flexibility

Job summary

Office Hours is an on-demand expert network connecting leading organizations with trusted experts across domains. We are headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Brooklyn and Bangalore.

We are seeking a senior engineer to own search, discovery, and matching end-to-end, influencing architecture and product direction across the stack. You'll ship backend services, indexing pipelines, and AI-enabled approaches to improve relevance and results.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong backend fundamentals and full-stack comfort.
• Experience with search, discovery, or data-intensive systems.

Responsibilities

• Own search, discovery, and recommendations end to end, from the underlying data and indices to relevance, ranking, and the user-facing experience.
• Build and improve the backend services and APIs that power matching across our knowledge graph, with a focus on precision, recall, and performance.
• Turn fragmented, unstructured data into structured, searchable knowledge through reliable ingestion and indexing pipelines.
• Ship user-facing search and discovery features across the stack, partnering closely with product and design.
• Raise the bar on architecture, code quality, and observability as you scale this part of the platform.
• Explore AI and LLM-assisted approaches to discovery and bring the promising ones to production.

Skills

Backend development

API design

Search and ranking

Data-intensive systems

Problem solving

Ownership mindset

Tools

Elasticsearch

MongoDB

OpenAPI

RabbitMQ

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Kibana

Sentry

Job description

Office Hours is an on-demand expert network connecting leading organizations with trusted experts across domains. We are headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Brooklyn and Bangalore.

We are seeking a senior engineer to own search, discovery, and matching end-to-end, influencing architecture and product direction across the stack. You'll ship backend services, indexing pipelines, and AI-enabled approaches to improve relevance and results.