Senior Software Engineer, Search & Data

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🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

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🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Distill

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1 - 10 employees

📣 Marketing

🤝 B2B

💼 Consulting

Marketing • B2B • Consulting

Distill is a design services company that focuses on helping entrepreneurs and startups address business challenges through effective design solutions. They specialize in various aspects of design, including experience design, branding, interaction design, and service design.

📋 Description

• Own company and people search end to end, including data ingestion, transformation, querying, ranking, and relevance • Improve the reliability and relevance of the existing search system • Rebuild the search system over time as appropriate • Design and build search capabilities such as identifying high-growth companies, surfacing recent job changers, and matching precise company profiles • Collaborate with the CTO and engineering team on long-term architecture decisions for search and data scalability • Build search agents using LLMs to make results smarter and more useful

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, including owning or leading search initiatives end to end • Hands-on production experience with Elasticsearch or a similar engine such as Lucene or Solr • Interest in search, data, and LLMs • Exceptional problem-solving skills • Ability to ship quickly in a fast-paced startup • Ability to work independently and own a domain • Nice to have: experience with entity resolution and de-duplication • Nice to have: strong UX and usability skills • Nice to have: production experience with Postgres • Nice to have: production experience with vector search and semantic retrieval • Nice to have: proficiency in Node.js / TypeScript

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Dental care • Home office stipend • Expenses covered for in-person team meetups • Quarterly in-person meetups • Flexible work arrangements • Immediate impact at a small, growing startup • Work with cutting-edge technologies • Collaboration with world-class engineers