Senior Backend Software Engineer, Search at Hungryroot. Location Information: United States. Hungryroot is the online grocery service that makes healthy eating easy and personal.. Own the search service end-to-end: index design, query pipelines, relevance tuning, cluster health, scaling, and upgrades of our OpenSearch infrastructure.. Drive important technical discussions around search architecture, hybrid retrieval strategies, embedding model selection, scoring/normalization pipelines, and personalization.. Work closely with engineering leads and product stakeholders to translate business requirements into performant search features.. Contribute directly to feature development across the search stack: document mapping, query builders, function scoring, KNN vector search, and text embeddings inference sidecar.. Incorporate AI-powered development tools into daily workflows to accelerate prototyping, code review, debugging, and documentation.. Help raise the bar on code quality and enforce engineering discipline through code review feedback, testing, technical presentations, and opportunistic refactoring.. Participate in the interview process for engineering candidates and contribute to hiring decisions.. 5+ yrs of commercial software development experience. 3+ yrs of hands-on experience with OpenSearch or Elasticsearch. 2+ yrs of experience with semantic/vector search techniques. 3+ yrs of experience using Python. 2+ yrs of experience building and tuning search relevance. 2+ yrs of experience troubleshooting production issues in search or data-intensive systems. Active experience using AI-powered developer tools. Pay range:. $168K - $210K. Remote-first: work from home or anywhere in the U.S.. Equity. Unlimited vacation policy. Universal paid parental leave. Monthly Hungryroot credit for groceries. Comprehensive health, vision, dental, and life insurance. 401k with Company Match. Work from home stipend
Senior Backend Software Engineer, Search at Hungryroot