Senior Software Engineer (Elasticsearch, Scala)
Core
Build and maintain backend services, search infrastructure, and experimentation systems for a food search and logging platform to improve conversion rates, time to log, and result relevance.
Role type
Senior IC software engineer (search infrastructure)
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, SQL, Python, Kafka, AWS/GCP, database design, high-volume messaging systems, peer code review
Preferred skills
AI workflows for development acceleration (code generation, refactoring, debugging, test authoring)
Technologies
Elasticsearch, Scala, SQL, Python, Kafka, AWS, GCP
Responsibilities
Contribute to backend services driving the food search experience; Perform search performance tuning (data design, indexing, query evaluation); 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
