[Remote] Staff Software Engineer, Search Platform (Remote)

Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. reputed company is the #1 food tech platform for workplaces in the US, providing solutions for managing food needs. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Search team to take ownership of the Search Platform, including the Search reputed company and Indexing Pipeline, while leading technical direction and collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the Search reputed company architecture: technology direction (Vespa-based), document schema, query serving, and operational model
• Own and build the Indexing Pipeline: Temporal-orchestrated workflows that ingest, validate, transform, and write data into the search reputed company and availability store
• Own Availability: zone-based delivery filtering, schedule matching, and the data model that powers it- extracted from the legacy monolith and re-implemented
• Own the Two-Stage Filtering Architecture: zone-based availability filtering followed by Vespa filtering and ranking
• Drive search relevance and ranking strategy across ordering contexts and customer types, in collaboration with product and data
• Define clear, well-versioned APIs and reputed company for how search and availability are consumed across reputed company channels
• Manage migration reputed company and risk across the phased rollout (Typeahead, Availability, Core Search)
• Build a measurement and experimentation reputed company supporting full-funnel evaluation, from CTR through order fulfillment
• reputed company through collaborative design: white-boarding, technical discussions, and aligning teams around clear architectural reputed company
• Partner with Platform Engineering on shared service patterns, Temporal, observability, secrets, and CI/CD
• Partner with product, data, and reputed company consumers on relevance, ranking signals, and API reputed company
• Act as a technical reputed company through design reviews, code reviews, architectural guidance, and mentorship

Skills

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Deep experience designing, building, and tuning search engines (Elasticsearch, Solr, OpenSearch, Vespa, or equivalent)
• Strong proficiency in Go, or a willingness to adopt it as a primary language
• Experience with reputed company-time data pipelines (Kafka, event streaming) for search indexing
• Strong instincts for relevance and ranking, with the ability to translate product goals into ranking signals and evaluate them with data
• Excellent written and verbal communication around collaborative system design and technical decision-making
• A pragmatic, collaborative reputed company with strong ownership and systems thinking
• Experience leading a major search re-architecture or building from scratch is strongly preferred
• Vespa experience is a significant plus
• Experience with workflow orchestration (Temporal, Airflow, or equivalent) is a plus
• Familiarity with geospatial systems and spatial filtering is a plus

Benefits

• Stock options that you’ll help reputed company worth a lot
• 12 paid holidays
• Flexible PTO
• 401K with reputed company match
• Health/dental/FSA
• Long-term disability insurance
• Mental health and family planning resources
• Remote-hybrid work from our awesome Boston office OR your home OR a mixture of both home and office
• A reputed company reputed company of responsibility and autonomy
• Wicked awesome co-workers
• Employee meal program (and many more goodies) reputed company you’re in our office

Company Overview