Senior Search Engineer

A US-based design marketplace that connects users with artists giving access to unique products, is looking for a Senior Search Engineer. The engineer will focus on building, developing, scaling, and maintaining the search as a core feature of the app. The company's goal is to find outstanding designs from around the world and present them to astute customers who won't settle for anything less. The company has managed to raise funding close to $300 mn+ during their Series E round. This will be a long-term, full-time position.

Job Responsibilities:

• Build search functionality, architected search function, clusters, etc. 
• Champion new technologies and enforce the best development patterns
• Rebuild the search infrastructure, from data ingestion to indexing to cluster configuration to query optimization
• Work on the event-driven system and indexing side of things

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• At least 5+ years of relevant experience as a software engineer
• 5+ years of Elasticsearch or Solr experience
• Knowledge of Kafka, RabbitMQ, IronMQ, AWS SQS, or similar technologies is nice to have
• Experience working with event-driven systems and building search infrastructure
• Some e-commerce background would be nice
• Excellent problem-solving and collaboration skills