Senior Software Engineer, Search & Discovery

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Senior Software Engineer at an on-demand expert network focusing on search, discovery, and recommendations. Owning backend features with a strong emphasis on data and relevance.

Posted 7/24/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $170,000 - $220,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in backend development, search and discovery systems, and data processing, with a strong focus on delivering high-quality, scalable solutions. Proficient in transforming unstructured data into structured formats and enhancing user-facing experiences through effective collaboration with product and design teams.

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Backend DevelopmentSearch and Discovery SystemsData Ingestion and IndexingRelevance and RankingAPI Development

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Hard Skills

Software EngineeringData StructuresAlgorithmsSearch AlgorithmsIndexing TechniquesPerformance OptimizationTesting and Quality AssuranceScalable ArchitectureKnowledge GraphsAI and LLM Integration

Soft Skills

Self-Starter MindsetProblem SolvingCollaborationAttention to DetailOwnership

Industry Keywords

Data-Intensive SystemsUser ExperienceProduct DevelopmentObservabilityEngineering Solutions

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own search, discovery, and recommendations end to end, from the underlying data and indices to relevance, ranking, and the user-facing experience
Build and improve the backend services and APIs that power matching across our knowledge graph, with a focus on precision, recall, and performance
Turn fragmented, unstructured data into structured, searchable knowledge through reliable ingestion and indexing pipelines
Ship user-facing search and discovery features across the stack, partnering closely with product and design
Raise the bar on architecture, code quality, and observability as you scale this part of the platform
Explore AI and LLM-assisted approaches to discovery (retrieval, embeddings, ranking, agentic workflows) and bring the promising ones to production

Requirements

What you’ll need

6+ years of software engineering experience, with strong backend fundamentals and comfort working across the stack
Pride in your craft and a track record of shipping high-quality products and features at scale
Experience with search, discovery, recommendations, or data-intensive systems, and enough knowledge of relevance and ranking to make an immediate impact
The ability to turn ambiguous user and business problems into clean, scalable, well-tested engineering solutions
A self-starter mindset, with the desire to own a domain end to end and grow into deeper ownership of it over time

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary and equity
Medical, dental, and vision coverage
401(k)
Monthly wellness and fitness stipend
Paid time off policy, along with company holidays
Annual company off-sites (Tahoe, Mendocino, Mexico City, San Diego, Park City)
Parent-friendly policies, remote flexibility, and paid family leave