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Staff Backend Engineer, Search
Location
United States
Posted
147 days ago
Salary
$250K - $300K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Staff Backend Engineer, Search
ClickUp
• Design and implement robust search solutions that scale with our rapidly growing user base • Improve search relevance, accuracy, and speed to deliver the most relevant results to users at blazing fast speeds • Improve our real-time indexing pipelines to ensure search results remain up-to-date • Create measurement frameworks to evaluate and improve search quality • Build and enhance vector search capabilities to power next-generation search experiences • Collaborate with AI, backend, and product teams to integrate search into new features • Troubleshoot complex search-related issues at scale • Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering best practices
Job Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
- 7+ years of experience as a search engineer or in a directly related role
- Strong expertise in search technologies, particularly OpenSearch / ElasticSearch
- Experience measuring and optimizing search quality
- Experience with high-volume, distributed data processing systems
- Proven ability to optimize query parsing, indexing, and relevance tuning for search systems
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively across teams
- Hands-on experience with vector embeddings and semantic search implementations (preferred)
- Experience with TypeScript in backend systems (preferred)
- Track record of architecting search solutions that maintain performance under heavy load (preferred)
- Experience applying machine learning and NLP to enhance search relevance (preferred)
- Knowledge of information retrieval concepts and search evaluation metrics (preferred)
Benefits
- Equity
- 401k
- Health, Dental, and Vision insurance
- Spending accounts
- Life & Disability
- Paid parental leave
- Flexible paid time off
- Enhanced employee assistance program
- Employee wellness stipend
- Professional development stipend
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