Senior Software Engineer (Elasticsearch, Scala)

Job description

*Solvd Inc. is a rapidly growing AI-native consulting and technology services firm delivering enterprise transformation across **cloud, data, software engineering, and artificial intelligence**. We work with industry-leading organizations to design, build, and operationalize technology solutions that drive measurable business outcomes.* *Following the acquisition of **Tooploox**, a premier AI and product development company, Solvd now offers true **end-to-end delivery**—from strategic advisory and solution design to custom AI development and enterprise-scale implementation. Our capability centers combine deep technical expertise, proven delivery methodologies, and sector-specific knowledge to address complex business challenges quickly and effectively.* We are looking for a **Senior Software Engineer (Elasticsearch, Scala)** to join a team powering food search and logging for one of the world’s leading health and nutrition platforms. You’ll contribute directly to the systems that drive search — backend services, search infrastructure, and experimentation — with a focus on improving core metrics: conversion rates, time to log, query abandonment, and result relevance. ## **What you’ll do** - Contribute to, build, and maintain backend services that drive the food search experience, integrating with systems across the broader engineering organization. - Perform search performance tuning end-to-end — data design, indexing, query evaluation, and iterative improvement within Elasticsearch. - Assist in the evaluation and implementation of search and data technologies that improve result quality and user experience. - Collaborate closely with senior search engineers, product management, and leadership on solution discovery, experiment planning, and delivery. - Contribute to the development of tools, processes, and metrics for measuring and monitoring search quality. ## **Required skills & experience** *Elasticsearch* - Demonstrated experience with performance tuning, query analysis, and relevance optimization in Elasticsearch at scale. - Strong understanding of index design, mapping strategies, cluster management, and scoring/ranking mechanics. - Familiarity with high availability, disaster recovery, and operational monitoring for Elasticsearch clusters. - Ability to deploy new indexes or clusters as needed for load balancing or experimentation. - Ability to translate product specifications into technical requirements and deploy ranking and relevance experiments with clearly defined success criteria and metrics. *Scala* - Strong experience writing, shipping, and maintaining Scala services in production. - Comfortable working across a stack that also includes SQL and Python — Scala is the primary language for this engagement. *Agentic development* - Active user of AI development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or comparable AI-powered coding environments — shipping production code with them, not just using autocomplete. - Familiarity with agentic coding patterns and workflows — code generation, refactoring, debugging, and test authoring. - Able to articulate how AI tooling fits into their development process and where human judgment remains critical. *Engineering fundamentals* - First-hand experience building, scaling, and supporting large-scale data infrastructure systems in production. - Strong understanding of database design, data architecture, and performance tuning across multiple data stores — MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis, or similar. - Experience with high-volume messaging systems such as Kafka. - Familiarity with AWS, GCP, or other cloud platforms. - Strong peer code review practices. ## **Preferred qualifications** - Experience leveraging AI workflows for meaningful development acceleration beyond autocomplete — code generation, refactoring, debugging, and test authoring at scale. **When you join Solvd, you'll…** - Shape real-world AI-driven projects across key industries, working with clients from startup innovation to enterprise transformation. - Be part of a global team with equal opportunities for collaboration across continents and cultures. - Thrive in an inclusive environment that prioritizes continuous learning, innovation, and ethical AI standards. **Ready to make an impact?** If you're excited to build things that matter, champion responsible AI, and grow with some of the industry’s sharpest minds. Apply today and let’s innovate together. *Solvd is an equal opportunity employer.*