Staff Software Engineer, Search Platform (Healthcare)

Sidecar Health, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 200,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity package

Medical, Dental, Vision

Job summary

Sidecar Health, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own search end to end. You will manage OpenSearch clusters, ingestion pipelines, relevance, and APIs that serve results for drugs, practices, and future verticals.

You will lead design decisions, measure search quality, and mentor engineers while working with product and leadership to drive improvements in search accuracy and performance.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering with production search systems.
• Deep knowledge of OpenSearch/Elasticsearch and ranking.
• Experience building and modernizing data pipelines for indexing.
• Ability to communicate technical decisions to executives and engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own search architecture and implementation across services.
• Drive relevance, ranking quality, and hybrid retrieval strategies.
• Build and modernize search data pipelines with near real-time indexing.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration and publish health/quality reports.
• Mentor engineers and own incident response for search.

Skills

OpenSearch

Elasticsearch

Search architecture

Ranking and relevance

Data pipelines

Observability

Mentoring engineers

Incident response

Tools

OpenSearch Dashboards

AWS OpenSearch

Job description

Sidecar Health, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own search end to end. You will manage OpenSearch clusters, ingestion pipelines, relevance, and APIs that serve results for drugs, practices, and future verticals.

You will lead design decisions, measure search quality, and mentor engineers while working with product and leadership to drive improvements in search accuracy and performance.