About The Position

Solvd Inc. is seeking a Senior Search Engineer to contribute to the development and optimization of search services for a large-scale consumer product platform. This role involves integrating search services across multiple engineering teams, taking ownership of Elasticsearch performance and relevance tuning, and collaborating with senior engineers, product managers, and leadership on experimentation and delivery. The position requires deep production experience in Elasticsearch and Scala, along with familiarity with modern AI-augmented development workflows.

Requirements

  • Elasticsearch (production + scale)
  • Strong hands-on experience with Elasticsearch in large-scale production environments
  • Experience scaling Elasticsearch for high-traffic applications
  • Expertise in indexing strategies, shard allocation, query optimization, and performance tuning
  • Experience troubleshooting Elasticsearch cluster issues
  • Development experience with Scala
  • Experience working in distributed systems or high-throughput platforms

Nice To Haves

  • Additional experience leveraging AI workflows for meaningful development acceleration across the full SDLC (design to delivery).
  • Prior work on search relevance, ranking systems, or experimentation frameworks in consumer-facing products.

Responsibilities

  • Manage, maintain, and optimize Elasticsearch clusters in production environments
  • Troubleshoot performance issues and improve search and indexing performance
  • Design and implement improvements for scalability, reliability, and cluster health
  • Support high-traffic and peak event scenarios to ensure platform stability
  • Maintain and improve the existing Scala-based indexing service
  • Collaborate with engineering teams on the modernization of the indexing framework
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