Senior Software Engineer, AI Search

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🇨🇿 Czechia – Remote

💵 Kč140k - Kč200k / month

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🤖 AI Engineer

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8am

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2005

⚖️ Legal

☁️ SaaS

💳 Fintech

💰 Private equity on 2024-08

Legal • SaaS • Fintech

8am is a professional business platform that helps law firms, accounting firms, associations, and other professional services manage billing, payments, compliance, and case/practice workflows. The company offers a suite of SaaS products — including LawPay, MyCase, CasePeer, DocketWise, CPACharge, ClientPay, and AffiniPay — that combine payments, practice management, document and case tools, and practical AI features to automate work, improve cash flow, and maintain industry-specific compliance. 8am emphasizes secure, compliant payments (PCI Level 1, IOLTA compliance for legal), integration with other tools, and measurable time and productivity savings for professionals.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to translate business problems into AI-powered search and retrieval solutions • Design and build hybrid search systems combining BM25 keyword search and semantic/vector search across large datasets • Develop and optimize retrieval pipelines for RAG and AI-driven applications • Build scalable pipelines for document ingestion, indexing, embedding generation, and search ranking • Partner with the Data team on data collection, enrichment, chunking, and indexing • Design and implement AI-powered services combining LLMs with search infrastructure • Write Python code to manipulate data, build search pipelines, and evaluate retrieval performance • Develop tools and infrastructure for relevance tuning, search quality evaluation, and continuous ranking-model improvement • Work with cloud operations to deploy AI search services, monitor performance, and improve latency, relevance, and reliability • Help establish the Czech Republic R&D hub and collaborate with U.S.-based teams during the integration period

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in backend systems or search infrastructure • 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, including chunking, embeddings, and indexing • Experience building scalable data infrastructure into production SaaS systems • Experience working in AWS cloud environments and modern DevOps practices • Experience with vector databases such as Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus, or 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, including OCR and structured document extraction • Exposure to fintech or the legal industry

🏖️ Benefits

• Performance bonus opportunities and employee referral rewards • Flexible Time Off (FTO) • 13 paid public holidays aligned with the Czech calendar • Paid sick leave with additional support through the Czech social security system • 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 • Clear growth paths, regular feedback, and opportunities for advancement • Opportunities to travel for company events • Local events, outings, and community initiatives • Company swag • Wellness, learning, and connection programs • Flexible hybrid setup with opportunities to work in-person at the new Brno office