Engineering Manager, Search Platform (Remote)
Core
Lead the engineering team responsible for the search engine, indexing pipeline, and availability services that power customer discovery on the ezCater food tech platform.
Role type
Engineering Manager, Search Platform
Builds
Search engine, indexing pipelines, availability services, and APIs for a food ordering marketplace
Domain
Food technology / Search & Retrieval
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Engineering management, search/retrieval systems architecture, distributed event-driven systems, indexing pipelines, observability, technical strategy, team coaching
Preferred skills
Go, relevance/ranking strategy, major re-architecture experience
Technologies
Vespa, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Solr
Responsibilities
Lead delivery and technical quality across query serving and indexing; Set technical direction for the search stack; Own freshness and correctness of the index; Review designs and de-risk architecture; Build a culture of measurement and continuous improvement; Coach and develop engineers; Prioritize work to reduce technical risk; Partner with product, data, and AI/ML teams
Seniority
Manager, hands-on technical leadership
