CareerPlan

Senior Software Engineer \ Search Engineer (Elasticsearch & Vector Search)

Kyiv, UkraineRemoteFull-time2026-07-09 → 2026-11-10
RemoteFreelance / independent contractor

Core

Design and implement hybrid search strategies for a financial intelligence platform's AI agents, combining keyword and semantic search to retrieve articles, transcripts, and news in milliseconds.

Role type

Senior IC Search Engineer (Elasticsearch & Vector Search)

Builds

Retrieval layer of RAG architecture for financial data

Domain

Financial technology + Search Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Elasticsearch, Python (FastAPI, Asyncio), Hybrid Search, Vector Search, RAG, Relevance Tuning, Data Schema Design

Preferred skills

LangChain, LangSmith, Finance domain knowledge

Technologies

Elasticsearch, Python, OpenAI Embeddings, LangChain, LangSmith, FastAPI, Asyncio

Responsibilities

Design and implement Hybrid Search strategies combining keyword and semantic search; Build systems to measure and improve search result quality; Manage integration of OpenAI embeddings into Elasticsearch; Optimize Elasticsearch queries and index settings for low latency; Develop and maintain Python services for query building and result processing