Senior Backend Engineer, Search

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🕒 June 8

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $200k - $250k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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ClickUp

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2017

☁️ SaaS

⚡ Productivity

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $400M Series C - ClickUp on 2021-10

SaaS • Productivity • Enterprise

ClickUp is a cloud-based SaaS work management and productivity platform that consolidates projects, docs, chat, time tracking, automations and AI-driven "Super Agents" into a single workspace. It helps teams and enterprises streamline workflows, replace fragmented software stacks, and boost productivity with integrations, customizable agents/workflows, and enterprise-grade security and compliance.

📋 Description

• Design and implement robust search solutions that scale with our rapidly growing user base • Improve search relevance, accuracy, and speed to deliver the most relevant results to users at blazing fast speeds • Improve our real-time indexing pipelines to ensure search results remain up-to-date • Create measurement frameworks to evaluate and improve search quality • Build and enhance vector search capabilities to power next-generation search experiences • Collaborate with AI, backend, and product teams to integrate search into new features • Troubleshoot complex search-related issues at scale

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field • 5+ years of experience as a search engineer or in a directly related role • Strong expertise in search technologies, particularly OpenSearch / ElasticSearch • Experience measuring and optimizing search quality • Experience with high-volume, distributed data processing systems • Proven ability to optimize query parsing, indexing, and relevance tuning for search systems • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills • Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively across teams • Hands-on experience with vector embeddings and semantic search implementations (preferred) • Experience with TypeScript in backend systems (preferred) • Track record of architecting search solutions that maintain performance under heavy load (preferred) • Experience applying machine learning and NLP to enhance search relevance (preferred) • Knowledge of information retrieval concepts and search evaluation metrics (preferred)

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • 401k • Health, Dental, and Vision insurance • Spending accounts • Life & Disability • Paid parental leave • Flexible paid time off • Enhanced employee assistance program • Employee wellness stipend • Professional development stipend