ZAGENO Inc.

Software Development Engineer III

ZAGENO Inc.

full-time

Posted on:

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Bangalore • 🇮🇳 India

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

AWSElasticSearchGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesPython

About the role

  • Lead and grow a team of backend,and FE engineers focused on Search, Ranking, and Product Discovery.
  • Collaborate with Product, Data Engineering, and UX teams to define the long-term search roadmap.
  • Drive architecture and design discussions for scalable and intelligent search systems.
  • Foster a culture of high performance, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
  • Oversee end-to-end design, development, and optimization of search pipelines (indexing, query processing, ranking).
  • Own search KPIs — including relevance, latency, clickthrough rate, and conversion metrics.
  • Implement experimentation frameworks (A/B testing, offline evaluation) to measure search quality improvements.
  • Guide migration or scaling of Elasticsearch/OpenSearch infrastructure and ensure data freshness, accuracy, and resilience.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, UX designers, and marketplace stakeholders.
  • Communicate technical trade-offs, project risks, and roadmap progress effectively to business leadership.
  • Partner with analytics teams to translate user behavior data into actionable search insights.

Requirements

  • 6-8 years of total engineering experience, including some technical lead role
  • Strong technical foundation in search, ranking, and retrieval systems (Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, or similar).
  • Proven experience in eCommerce search or large-scale catalog discovery systems.
  • Proven experience in tracking sprint health, predictability, and delivery.
  • Hands-on experience with Python/Java and modern backend frameworks.
  • Experience designing data pipelines for indexing, enrichment, and query understanding.
  • Understanding of search relevance tuning, synonyms, embeddings, re-ranking, and personalization.
  • Strong architectural skills — ability to design scalable, high-availability search systems.
  • Excellent communication, mentoring, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Exposure to LLMs or vector search (semantic/embedding search) for product discovery.
  • Experience with GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, and CI/CD for production-grade deployments.
Benefits
  • Working for a mission-driven business with a meaningful challenge with a positive impact on the scientific community
  • A clear growth perspective
  • A learning and development budget to enable your ambitions to grow professionally in your field
  • A professional and dynamic team with a global vision and mindset
  • An exciting, international working environment - we have more than 40 nationalities!
  • We’ve got your health benefits (medical, dental, and vision)
  • Hybrid Work with 3 days work from office in our Marathahalli, Bangalore office
  • Staying healthy and fit is essential - we cover a part of your gym membership!
  • Holidays and flexible PTO
  • Paid family leave
  • A budget to improve your home office environment

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
search systemsranking systemsretrieval systemsElasticsearchOpenSearchPythonJavadata pipelinessearch relevance tuningCI/CD
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationmentoringstakeholder managementcollaborationcontinuous improvementproject risk managementteam growthperformance culturecross-functional collaboration