Search Engineer

(Key skills : Java, Microservices, Elasticsearch / Solr)

Job Description :

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Design and architect search & recommendations platforms, including next-generation and legacy systems.
• Focus on improving search relevance, ranking, recommendations, and personalization.
• Develop microservices to support multiple services within search and science teams.
• Provide technical leadership, build cross-discipline partnerships, and deliver reliable solutions.
• Write code and develop search & recommendation services, data ingestion, and indexing pipelines.
• Collaborate with architects, engineers, data analysts, data scientists, and PMs to build Elasticsearch stack solutions.
• Integrate ML ranking models, NLP, and query-understanding into search workflows.
• Work on large-scale search, discovery, typeahead (auto-suggest), personalization, and recommendation systems.
• Influence priorities, mentor juniors, review code, and ensure sprint delivery.
• Drive re-engineering of systems and migration from legacy to next-gen architectures.
• Take end-to-end ownership of design, development, production launch, and support.
• Participate in design reviews and on-call rotations for production systems.

Education and Experience