ClickUp - Senior Backend Engineer, Search
Requirements
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field • 5+ years of experience as a search engineer or in a directly related role • Hands-on production experience with OpenSearch or ElasticSearch (strongly preferred); Solr experience considered but less ideal given its age • Experience with high-scale, real-time data ingestion and search serving in a backend services context. • Proven ability to optimize query parsing, indexing, and relevance tuning for search systems • Experience measuring and optimizing search quality • Background in search ranking, relevance algorithms, and information retrieval • Hands-on experience with vector embeddings and semantic search implementations • Experience with TypeScript in backend systems • Track record of architecting search solutions that maintain performance under heavy load • Experience applying machine learning and NLP to enhance search relevance • At ClickUp, we're committed to building the future of productivity software. As our Search Engineer, you'll play a crucial role in shaping the core functionality of our platform and driving our AI initiatives forward. Join us in our mission to make the world more productive!
Responsibilities
• 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 • Improve out real-time indexing pipelines to ensure search results remain up-to-date
Benefits
• Estimated Base Compensation $200K – $250K
Apply in one click
Upload My Resume
Drop here or click to browse · Tap to choose · PDF, DOCX, DOC, RTF, TXT