Senior Search Backend Engineer (m/f/x)

The role

You will support the Search Foundation Team by developing a modern, integrated search experience and a search API for product discovery. You will design search functionalities in a PaaS ecommerce Scala backend and maintain scalable search infrastructure on Kubernetes.

What you will do

• Design and implement search functionalities in a PaaS ecommerce Scala backend
• Learn Scala and functional programming as new main development tools
• Develop search-related libraries based on ElasticSearch and MongoDB
• Run and maintain a scalable search infrastructure as code on top of Kubernetes using terraform and multi-tenant architecture
• Test software components regarding usability, functionality, and performance
• Work closely with Product Management and DevOps
• Take part in on-call rotation for production systems with a worldwide distributed team

Required qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience as a Software Engineer working with languages on the JVM
• Search-related experience
• Strong DevOps mindset
• Interest in working with Scala using pragmatic functional programming patterns
• Practical work experience in developing server-side systems using the JVM
• Solid understanding of parallel and asynchronous programming, as well as non-blocking I/O
• Experience in developing REST APIs and knowledge of scalable architectures (incl. sharding, replication, load balancing and failover)
• Fluent English for work in international teams
• A genuine curiosity for using AI tools to work smarter and more effectively

Nice to have

• Experience developing REST APIs and knowledge of scalable event-driven architectures (incl., queues, notification topics, sharding, replication, load balancing, and failover)
• Experience working with Scala or other functional programming languages
• Experience with infrastructure work and other technologies like Helm, Kubernetes, and Rust
• ElasticSearch

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits for you and your dependents, including access to OpenUp for personalized mental health support
• Learning and development opportunities including an annual learning budget, access to self-paced learning platforms and language training, personalized coaching, mentorship, and leadership programs
• Family Leave Plus gives additional fully paid weeks of parental leave on top of government-provided leave
• Equity participation program

About the company

commercetools powers the next era of commerce for customers through AI-driven solutions and flexible commerce architecture. The company is a collective of builders, explorers, doers, makers, and problem-solvers.