Senior Search Engineer

Paris. Posted 3 months ago

The role

A senior search engineer will build and improve systems for fast, relevant, and intelligent search. This includes working on indexing, query planning, retrieval, ranking, and production systems.

What you will do

Build and improve search across multiple entity types.
Work on geospatial search, indexing, query planning, retrieval, and ranking.
Design metrics and feedback loops for search quality.
Run offline evaluations and production experiments.
Tune results using relevance, popularity, personalization, and contextual signals.
Explore semantic or embedding-based search where useful.
Work closely with backend and product teams to ship search improvements.

Required qualifications

Senior-level experience building production search systems.
Strong understanding of indexing, query planning, retrieval, and ranking.
Experience with geospatial search.
Experience with search quality metrics, experimentation, and feedback loops.
Experience evaluating, tuning, extending, or building search/indexing systems beyond basic API usage.
Strong backend engineering fundamentals.
Ability to reason about latency, relevance, correctness, and scale.

Nice to have

Experience with local search, maps, discovery, or multi-entity search systems.
Experience with semantic search, embeddings, ranking, recommendations, or personalization.
Experience with Rust search/indexing systems or similar low-level indexing primitives.
Experience building search systems over multiple heterogeneous entity types.

Benefits

Health care (100% coverage).
Maternity Leave, Paternity Leave, Second Parent Leave (salary maintained at 100%).
8-9 weeks vacation days total per year.
5 weeks of paid time off (by the state).
1-2 additional weeks (RTT, based on our company contract).
~11 bank holidays.
Company shuts down entirely twice a year, two weeks in summer and one week in winter.

About the company

amo is growing quickly, and search is becoming an important part of how people navigate our products.