Clickup

Senior Backend Engineer, Search

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About this role

Clickup is hiring for a Senior Backend Engineer, Search role (full-time). See the official posting for full details.

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

Summarized from the employer's posting — check the full posting for every requirement.