Senior AI Search engineer (m/f/x)
Про роль
Senior AI Search Engineer at commercetools is a hybrid role based in Berlin, Germany. You will build the retrieval layer for commerce product discovery, helping bring semantic and hybrid search to general availability across enterprise catalogs.
Work format
Full-time employment with three office days per week. English proficiency: C1, with fluent communication required for work across international teams.
Skills and tools
- Scala
- Elasticsearch
- Solr
- OpenSearch
- REST APIs
- Helm
- Kubernetes
- Rust
What to prepare
- Prepare a walkthrough of a search solution you built, explaining engine selection and performance testing.
- Choose an example showing how you evaluated semantic or hybrid retrieval relevance.
Обовʼязки
- Design and implement search functionality in a PaaS ecommerce Scala backend.
- Build search capabilities within a scalable, multi-tenant architecture.
- Analyze user needs and discuss technical approaches, from query understanding to vector indexing.
- Test software components for usability, functionality and performance.
- Work with Product Management and DevOps on search development.
- Participate in production on-call rotations with a distributed team.
Вимоги
- Bring 5+ years of software engineering experience in search.
- Experience building search solutions with Elasticsearch, Solr, OpenSearch or similar engines; Elasticsearch is preferred.
- Show curiosity about AI tools and a willingness to learn and apply new technologies.
Nice to have
- Experience improving relevance through vector search, hybrid search, learning to rank or re-ranking.
- REST API development and knowledge of scalable event-driven architectures, including sharding, replication and failover.
- Experience with Scala or other functional programming languages.
- Infrastructure experience with technologies such as Helm, Kubernetes or Rust.
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Composable commerce platform provider offering API-first software for enterprise retailers.
- Локація
- Munich, Germany
- Розмір команди
- 201-500
- Політика віддаленої роботи
- Hybrid
Огляд
- Seniority
- Senior
- Remote policy
- Hybrid
- Location
- Berlin, Germany
- Employment
- Full-time
- English
- C1
- Posted
- Oct 17, 2026