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Senior Search Backend Engineer

Berlin, Germany (Hybrid)💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-09 → 2026-09-25

Core

Design and implement search functionalities in a PaaS ecommerce Scala backend, providing a search API for product discovery and scalable search capabilities across domains.

Role type

Senior IC backend engineer (search)

Builds

Search API and scalable search infrastructure for ecommerce customers

Domain

Ecommerce, Search, Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Scala, functional programming, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Kubernetes, Terraform, REST APIs, scalable architecture design, parallel/asynchronous programming, non-blocking I/O

Preferred skills

Event-driven architectures, Helm, Rust, AI tools

Technologies

Scala, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Rust

Responsibilities

Design and implement search functionalities in a PaaS ecommerce Scala backend; Develop search-related libraries based on ElasticSearch and MongoDB; Run and maintain scalable search infrastructure as code on Kubernetes using Terraform; Test software components regarding usability, functionality, and performance; Participate in on-call rotation for production systems

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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