Senior / Staff Software Engineer (Search)

Senior / Staff Software Engineer (Search)

Location: New York, NY (Full-time, on-site 5 days/week) Compensation: $190,000 – $220,000 base + competitive equity

Hiring: 1–2 candidates ASAP

The Role Greenfield opportunity to build search, recommendation, and knowledge systems from the ground up. Backend-leaning role focused on designing and scaling intelligent retrieval pipelines, data engineering, and AI-driven discovery across massive, messy document sets.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale backend services that power search, recommendations, and relevant data retrieval.

• Build and optimize data pipelines to ingest, normalize, and index large volumes of government and enterprise data.

• Create retrieval pipelines using embeddings to search and reason across thousands of documents (vector search, semantic retrieval).

• Solve entity resolution challenges across messy, real-world datasets — de-duplication, merging, cleaning, structuring.

• Own projects end-to-end: from technical design and implementation through deployment and iteration.

• Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to deliver data-driven features.