Search backend engineer in ecommerce

At commercetools, we power the next era of commerce for our customers. Whether it's AI-driven solutions that help enterprises make smarter business decisions, bridging digital and physical shopping experiences, or enabling entirely new ways for industries to connect with their customers, we help the world's most ambitious companies experiment, scale, and grow without limits. As our Senior Search Engineer, you'll support the Search Foundation Team by developing a modern, integrated search experience for our customers, providing them with a search API for product discovery and the foundations of search capabilities across domains.

• Design and implement search functionalities in a PaaS ecommerce Scala backend.
• Learn Scala and functional programming as your 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, and work closely with Product Management and DevOps.
• Taking part in on-call rotation (with the worldwide distributed team) for production systems

• At least 5 years of experience as a Software Engineer working with languages on the JVM
• Search-related experience (preferably ElasticSearch)
• Strong DevOps mindset as you will drive lots of infrastructure improvements
• 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, paired with a drive to learn and put them into practice in your role.
• Будет плюсом: 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

• 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 you additional fully paid weeks of parental leave on top of government-provided leave, so you can spend more time with your new addition
• Our equity participation program allows you to share in our success