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Lead Software Engineer, Search

Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Mon, Oct 19, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days

Job Summary

As the technical lead for a remote, full-time opportunity, the Lead Software Engineer, Search will architect and scale semantic search capabilities using OpenSearch, focusing on query pipelines, search relevance, and data ingestion processes.

Key responsibilities
  • Architect and implement hybrid search capabilities utilizing OpenSearch
  • Continuously evaluate and optimize search relevance and ranking models
  • Maintain and evolve core data ingestion and indexing pipelines
Required qualifications
  • 7+ years of professional software development experience in a technical leadership role
  • Deep expertise in building and scaling OpenSearch or Elasticsearch clusters
  • Proven experience with semantic search and hybrid search scoring models
  • Strong proficiency in backend programming languages such as GoLang, Scala, or Java
  • Experience with relational databases, schema design, and distributed messaging tools like Kafka or RabbitMQ

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