Senior Software Engineer, AI Search

The role

You will design and build AI-powered features and hybrid search systems to enhance the 8am product suite. You will collaborate with engineers, product managers, and data scientists to bring AI into production.

What you will do

• Translate business problems into AI-powered search and retrieval solutions
• Design and build hybrid search systems combining keyword search and semantic/vector search
• Develop and optimize retrieval pipelines used in RAG and AI-driven applications
• Build scalable pipelines for document ingestion, indexing, embedding generation, and search ranking
• Partner with the Data team to ensure data is collected, enriched, chunked, and indexed
• Design and implement AI-powered services that combine LLMs with search infrastructure
• Write high-quality Python code to manipulate data and build search pipelines
• Develop tools and infrastructure to support relevance tuning and search quality evaluation
• Work with cloud operations team to deploy AI search services and monitor performance

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Experience building search or retrieval systems for large document stores
• Hands-on experience with Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Solr, or similar search platforms
• Experience implementing hybrid search combining keyword-based retrieval with vector embeddings
• Strong Python or equivalent modern tech stack development skills
• Familiarity with document processing pipelines (chunking, embeddings, indexing)
• Experience building scalable data infrastructure into production SaaS systems
• Experience working in AWS cloud environments and modern DevOps practices

Nice to have

• Experience with vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus, FAISS)
• Experience tuning search ranking and relevance models
• Background in information retrieval or search relevance engineering
• Experience building RAG systems or AI agents
• Experience working with LLMs and retrieval-augmented architectures
• Familiarity with large-scale document processing (OCR, structured document extraction)
• Exposure to fintech or the legal industry

Benefits

• Performance bonus opportunities
• Employee referral rewards
• Flexible Time Off (FTO)
• 13 paid public holidays aligned with the Czech calendar
• Paid sick leave
• Maternity, paternity, and parental leave in line with Czech regulations
• Additional paid paternity leave from 8am
• Full statutory benefits including public health insurance, social security, pension, and work accident coverage
• Access to Coursera (including Gen AI Academy)
• Ongoing professional development
• Opportunities to travel for company events
• Company swag and programs focused on wellness, learning, and connection

About the company

8am builds software that helps professionals run stronger businesses through a platform powering payments, client experience, and operational workflows. More than 250,000 professionals across the U.S. rely on their products every day.