Staff Software Engineer – E‑Commerce Search Leader

engineeringjobs.net, Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Discount

Health Benefits

Retirement Savings Plan

Accrued Time Off

Job summary

engineeringjobs.net, Inc. seeks a senior engineer to lead the design, development, and operation of scalable search systems in a high-availability environment.

You will translate business needs into reliable solutions while supporting 24/7 incident response and driving improvements across teams. The role requires deep expertise in Java, e-commerce search, and distributed systems, with mentoring responsibilities and a focus on advancing search technologies and engineering practices, including

Qualifications

• Requires at least six years of professional software development experience with Java and the full software development lifecycle.
• Plus at least three years working with e-commerce search technologies and system design.
• Expertise in search engines, indexing and middle-tier services, distributed systems, monitoring, and architecture.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and operation of scalable search systems, translating business and technical requirements into reliable solutions.
• Support 24/7 incident response and system reliability.
• Guide cross-functional teams and mentor engineers to improve search components and capabilities.
• Advance search capabilities and engineering practices, including agent-based experiences.

Skills

Java

E-Commerce Search

Search Engine Technologies

Semantic and Vector Search

Lexical Search

TF/IDF and BM25

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

Distributed Systems

System Design and Architecture

Kafka

Prometheus and Datadog

CI/CD Pipelines

Test-Driven Development

Technical Mentoring

Tools

Solr

Elasticsearch

Kafka

Prometheus

Datadog

Job description

engineeringjobs.net, Inc. seeks a senior engineer to lead the design, development, and operation of scalable search systems in a high-availability environment.

You will translate business needs into reliable solutions while supporting 24/7 incident response and driving improvements across teams. The role requires deep expertise in Java, e-commerce search, and distributed systems, with mentoring responsibilities and a focus on advancing search technologies and engineering practices, including