Senior Software Engineer (Elasticsearch, Scala)
Core
Senior Software Engineer building backend services, search infrastructure, and experimentation systems for a food search and logging platform.
Role type
Senior IC software engineer (search & backend)
Builds
Backend services, search infrastructure, and experimentation tools for a health and nutrition platform
Domain
Health & Nutrition / Search Technology
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Elasticsearch performance tuning, Scala, index design, query analysis, relevance optimization, high availability, disaster recovery, SQL, Python, agentic AI development, large-scale data infrastructure, database design, Kafka, AWS/GCP
Preferred skills
AI workflows for code generation and refactoring at scale
Technologies
Elasticsearch, Scala, SQL, Python, Kafka, AWS, GCP
Responsibilities
Build and maintain backend services driving the food search experience; Perform end-to-end search performance tuning including data design and indexing; Evaluate and implement search technologies to improve result quality; Collaborate on solution discovery and experiment planning; Develop tools and metrics for monitoring search quality
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
