Search Engineer – SDE-2

Job Title : Search Engineer – SDE-2

Location : Bengaluru, India

Department : Engineering – Discovery & Search

Experience : 4–6 years

Employment Type : Full-time

About Licious

At Licious, we are building India’s most trusted brand for fresh meat and seafood, powered by technology, innovation, and obsession for quality. As part of our Discovery & Search team, you’ll work on delivering relevant, personalized, and lightning-fast search experiences for millions of customers daily.

Role Overview

We’re looking for a Search Engineer (SDE-2) who is passionate about building scalable, intelligent, and data-driven search systems. You’ll be responsible for improving product discovery across Licious platforms by optimizing search relevance, performance, and quality using modern backend and search technologies.

You’ll collaborate closely with Product, Data, and Platform teams to deliver search experiences that make discovery seamless, personalized, and delightful for users.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement high-performance search and discovery systems using Java, Spring Boot, and OpenSearch (or Elasticsearch) .
• Develop and optimize indexing pipelines , ensuring freshness, accuracy, and minimal latency.
• Implement relevance tuning , ranking models, and spell correction strategies (e.g., “did-you-mean”, auto-suggestions).
• Work with catalog, pricing, and availability services to enhance query responses with contextual metadata.
• Analyze search metrics such as CTR, no-result rates, latency, and recall to continuously improve relevance.
• Design and maintain APIs powering Search, Product Listing Pages (PLP), Product Detail Pages (PDP) , and other discovery modules.
• Collaborate with data and ML teams to integrate personalization and cohort-based ranking into the search pipeline.
• Write clean, scalable, and testable code with solid understanding of system design and distributed systems .
• Participate in code reviews, production readiness reviews , and continuous performance tuning.
• Contribute to A / B testing of search features and monitor impact through telemetry and analytics.

Required Skills & Qualifications

Good to Have

Why Licious