About the Position

We are looking for a Senior AI Search Engineer to join our Discovery Team in a hybrid work environment. You will be instrumental in building the retrieval layer behind product discovery for some of the world’s most demanding commerce brands.

About commercetools

Real innovation starts with a strong foundation, and at commercetools, that comes from the perfect balance of our product and our people. Behind every leap forward is a collective of builders, explorers, doers, makers, and problem-solvers. Together, they are the engine of commerce innovation today.

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.

Your Impact

As a Senior Search Engineer, you will:

Design and implement search functionalities in a PaaS ecommerce Scala backend.
Develop in a scalable and multi-tenant architecture.
Analyze user needs and discuss technical approaches.
Test software components regarding usability, functionality, and performance.
Work closely with Product Management and DevOps.
Take part in on-call rotations with a worldwide distributed team for production systems.

This role is hybrid, with three days a week spent in our Munich, Berlin, London, or Valencia office.

What Sets You Apart

You bring:

5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer working in search.
Experience with building search solutions on top of engines, such as Elasticsearch (preferred), Solr, OpenSearch, or similar.
Aspiration to constantly improve yourself and learn new technologies, concepts, etc.
Fluent English communication skills to work in international teams.
AI Aptitude: 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.

Nice to Have

Experience using modern search stacks and strategies to optimize search relevance (Vector and Hybrid Search, Learning to rank, Re-ranker).
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.

We Offer

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.
Our equity participation program allows you to share in our success.

About the Company

At commercetools, we are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

Come as you are. Build with us. Your unique perspective is essential to our success. We are committed to building a team that reflects the world around us because we know it’s the only way to build the future. We celebrate our differences and have created a hiring process that’s fair, inclusive, and designed to let your talent shine.

For more information on our diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging practices, visit this page.

Senior AI Search engineer

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