Commercetools

Overview

As a Senior Search Engineer on our Discovery Team, you will build the retrieval layer behind product discovery for some of the world’s most demanding commerce brands, developing search capabilities that combine lexical, semantic, and hybrid retrieval.

About Commercetools

Real innovation starts with a strong foundation, and at commercetools, that comes from the perfect balance of our product and our people. At commercetools, we power the next era of commerce for our customers, helping the world’s most ambitious companies experiment, scale, and grow without limits.

Requirements & Eligibility

• At least 5 years of experience as a Software Engineer, with production experience on the JVM
• Solid understanding of parallel and asynchronous programming, as well as non-blocking I/O
• Experience developing REST APIs and knowledge of scalable architectures, including sharding, replication, load balancing, and failover
• Interest in working with Scala using pragmatic functional programming patterns
• Fluent English for work in international teams
• Experience operating multi-tenant SaaS where one tenant’s load must never affect another’s
• Knowledge of scalable event-driven architectures, including queues and notification topics

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement search functionalities in a PaaS ecommerce Scala backend
• Develop search capabilities that combine lexical, semantic, and hybrid retrieval
• Develop search-related libraries based on ElasticSearch and MongoDB
• Contribute to search relevance and quality, and to how we measure it
• Run and maintain a scalable search infrastructure as code on top of Kubernetes using terraform and multi-tenant architecture
• Test software components regarding usability, functionality, and performance, and work closely with Product Management and DevOps
• Learn Scala and functional programming as your new main development tools
• Take part in on-call rotation with a worldwide distributed team for production systems