Search - Search Relevance - Software Engineer II

Search lets users easily implement powerful, modern search experiences for their websites, apps, or workplaces. Search it all, simply. The Search Relevance team is responsible for the search quality and customizations for our developers building their search experiences. We make sure that every query yields relevant and reliable results in a reasonable time.

We are currently looking to hire this position in either Israel, Hungary, Greece, Spain, Ireland or the UK. Relocation and sponsorship are not offered at this time.

What You Will Be Doing:

• You will be building product enhancements for search components with contributions to Elasticsearch and Kibana.
• You will collaborate with and mentor teammates in a mostly text-based, asynchronous, remote-first team environment with occasional video calls and yearly conferences.
• You’ll be hands-on with the team and codebase, reviewing work and providing constructive feedback.
• You will collaborate with the team on features, breaking them down into technical deliverables. You’ll act as an important and communicative part of an engaged and spirited team.

Our Team Style:

• We appreciate articulate and “low ego” people who want to grow as part of a team.
• We welcome diversity in all forms. We embrace strange and risky ideas and appreciate characters of all sorts.
• We hold each other accountable and work to a high standard. We take pride in the frequent, safe and graceful delivery of innovative and valuable features.
• We embrace open communication and challenge. We appreciate positivity and vigilance and strive for autonomy, trust, and personal and professional growth.

What You Will Bring:

• Experience building software using modern programming languages such as Java, Python ,Go, Kotlin, etc.
• Openness to learn new languages and technologies.
• Experienced with JavaScript-based front-end web application frameworks.
• Excellent practical judgment. You know how to prioritize, when to collaborate and ask for help, and when to be independent.
• Measured and articulate written and spoken communication skills. You work well with others and can craft concise and expressive thoughts into correspondence: issues, investigations, documentation and onboarding material.
• An interest in learning new tools, languages, workflows and philosophies that can help you grow. You can function well in an environment that drives towards change.

If this sounds interesting, we would love to hear from you! Please include whatever info you believe is relevant: resume, GitHub profile, code samples, blog posts and writing samples, links to personal projects, etc.