Senior Search Backend Engineer (m/f/x)

As our Senior Search Engineer, you'll support the Search Foundation Team by developing a modern, integrated search experience for our customers, providing them with a search API for product discovery and the foundations of search capabilities across domains.

• Design and implement search functionalities in a PaaS ecommerce Scala backend.
• Learn Scala and functional programming as your new main development tools
• Develop search-related libraries based on ElasticSearch and MongoDB
• Run and maintain a scalable search "infrastructure as code" on top of Kubernetes using terraform and multi-tenant architecture
• Test software components regarding usability, functionality, and performance, and work closely with Product Management and DevOps.
• Taking part in on-call rotation (with the worldwide distributed team) for production systems
• Take part in on-call rotations with a worldwide distributed team for production systems.

• At least 5 years of experience as a Software Engineer working with languages on the JVM
• Search-related experience (preferably ElasticSearch)
• Strong DevOps mindset as you will drive lots of infrastructure improvements
• Interest in working with Scala using pragmatic functional programming patterns
• Practical work experience in developing server-side systems using the JVM
• Solid understanding of parallel and asynchronous programming, as well as non-blocking I/O
• Experience in developing REST APIs and knowledge of scalable architectures (incl. sharding, replication, load balancing and failover)
• Fluent English for work in international teams
• A genuine curiosity for using AI tools to work smarter and more effectively, paired with a drive to learn and put them into practice in your role.
• Experience developing REST APIs and knowledge of scalable event-driven architectures (incl., queues, notification topics, sharding, replication, load balancing, and failover).
• Experience working with Scala or other functional programming languages.
• Experience with infrastructure work and other technologies like Helm, Kubernetes, and Rust.

• Comprehensive health benefits for you and your dependents, including access to OpenUp for personalized mental health support
• Learning and development opportunities including an annual learning budget, access to self-paced learning platforms and language training, personalized coaching, mentorship, and leadership programs
• Family Leave Plus gives you additional fully paid weeks of parental leave on top of government-provided leave, so you can spend more time with your new addition
• Our equity participation program allows you to share in our success