What You’ll Accomplish

• Lead the technical vision for the Search Optimization team, aligning with company goals and driving strategic outcomes through innovative data solutions
• Oversee the design and implementation of high-throughput data solutions, ensuring that they are scalable, efficient, and capable of powering critical operations
• Partner with teams across AI, ML, analytics, and other departments to enhance and expand our search platform, ensuring it meets the evolving needs of the organization
• Establish and uphold high standards for data quality, governance, and system integration, addressing complex distributed data challenges with robust solutions
• Recruit, mentor, and develop a high-performing engineering team, fostering a culture of continuous learning, experimentation, and collaboration
• Balance and prioritize multiple projects, ensuring timely delivery and alignment with business objectives while maintaining high standards of technical excellence
• Champion the technical design, development, implementation and support of web stack and big data applications including extending its capabilities applications using existing and emerging technology platforms

Your Expertise

• You have 5+ years of industry experience developing software, with a proven track record of solving complex big data challenges and delivering impactful solutions
• You are knowledgeable about data modeling, data access, and data storage, and have experience with search (Elastic, Lucene, Solr, etc) and vector search (Pinecone, etc.) technologies
• You have a strong commitment to software quality, with a history of building reliable, high-uptime systems that meet and exceed performance expectations
• You excel at translating business needs into well-defined projects, taking a hands-on approach to solution design, implementation, and execution
• You are passionate about emerging technologies and have the ability to evaluate and choose the right tools and technologies to drive innovation while balancing practical considerations
• You thrive in a collaborative environment, working effectively with cross-functional teams to align technical solutions with business goals and ensure cohesive execution

What We Use

• Our infrastructure runs primarily in Kubernetes hosted in AWS’s EKS
• Infrastructure tooling includes Istio, Datadog,Terraform, CloudFlare, and HelmOur backend is Java / Spring Boot microservices, built with Gradle, coupled with things like DynamoDB, Kinesis, AirFlow, Postgres, Planetscale, and Redis, hosted via AWS
• Our frontend is built with React and TypeScript, and uses best practices like GraphQL, Storybook, Radix UI, Vite, esbuild, and Playwright
• Our automation is driven by custom and open source machine learning models, lots of data and built with Python, Metaflow, HuggingFace 🤗, PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Pandas