Software Engineer (Elasticsearch, Scala)

Solvd; United States; Remote; USD 140.000 - 190.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Solvd is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Elasticsearch, Scala) to join a team powering health and nutrition search platforms. You will contribute to backend services, search infrastructure, and experimentation to improve core metrics.

You will work with Elasticsearch at scale, design data models, and collaborate across engineering, product, and leadership to deliver reliable, high-quality search experiences.

Qualifikationen

• Elasticsearch performance tuning, indexing design, and relevance optimization at scale.
• Production-grade Scala services; proficient with SQL and Python in a multi-datastore environment.
• Experience with large-scale data infrastructure and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP).

Aufgaben

• Build and maintain backend services powering the food search experience, integrating with systems across the broader engineering organization.
• Tune Elasticsearch performance end-to-end: data design, indexing, query evaluation, and iterative improvement.
• Assist in evaluating and implementing search and data technologies to improve result quality and user experience.
• Collaborate with senior search engineers, product management, and leadership on solution discovery and experiments.
• Develop tools, processes, and metrics for measuring and monitoring search quality.

Kenntnisse

Elasticsearch

Scala

Agentic development

Engineering fundamentals

Tools

SQL

Python

Kafka

AWS

GCP

Jobbeschreibung

Описание

Solvd Inc. is a rapidly growing AI-native consulting and technology services firm delivering enterprise transformation across cloud, data, software engineering, and artificial intelligence. We work with industry-leading organizations to design, build, and operationalize technology solutions that drive measurable business outcomes. Following the acquisition of Tooploox, a premier AI and product development company, Solvd now offers true end-to-end delivery-from strategic advisory and solution design to custom AI development and enterprise-scale implementation. Our capability centers combine deep technical expertise, proven delivery methodologies, and sector-specific knowledge to address complex business challenges quickly and effectively. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Elasticsearch, Scala) to join a team powering food search and logging for one of the world’s leading health and nutrition platforms. You’ll contribute directly to the systems that drive search - backend services, search infrastructure, and experimentation - with a focus on improving core metrics: conversion rates, time to log, query abandonment, and result relevance.

Задачи

• 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.
• Shape real-world AI-driven projects across key industries, working with clients from startup innovation to enterprise transformation.
• Be part of a global team with equal opportunities for collaboration across continents and cultures.
• Thrive in an inclusive environment that prioritizes continuous learning, innovation, and ethical AI standards.

Требования

• Elasticsearch Demonstrated experience with performance tuning, query analysis, and relevance optimization in Elasticsearch at scale. Strong understanding of index design, mapping strategies, cluster management, and scoring/ranking mechanics. Familiarity with high availability, disaster recovery, and operational monitoring for Elasticsearch clusters. Ability to deploy new indexes or clusters as needed for load balancing or experimentation. Ability to translate product specifications into technical requirements and deploy ranking and relevance experiments with clearly defined success criteria and metrics.
• Scala 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.
• Agentic development 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.
• Engineering fundamentals 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. Experience with high-volume messaging systems such as Kafka. Familiarity with AWS, GCP, or other cloud platforms. Strong peer code review practices. Experience leveraging AI workflows for meaningful development acceleration beyond autocomplete - code generation, refactoring, debugging, and test authoring at scale.

Solvd is an equal opportunity employer.