Senior Search Engineer

What You’ll Do

• Build and improve search across multiple entity types.
• Work on geospatial search, indexing, query planning, retrieval, and ranking.
• Design metrics and feedback loops for search quality.
• Run offline evaluations and production experiments.
• Tune results using relevance, popularity, personalization, and contextual signals.
• Explore semantic or embedding-based search where useful.
• Work closely with backend and product teams to ship search improvements.

Must Have

• Senior-level experience building production search systems.
• Strong understanding of indexing, query planning, retrieval, and ranking.
• Experience with geospatial search.
• Experience with search quality metrics, experimentation, and feedback loops.
• Experience evaluating, tuning, extending, or building search/indexing systems beyond basic API usage.
• Strong backend engineering fundamentals.
• Ability to reason about latency, relevance, correctness, and scale.

Nice To Have

• Experience with local search, maps, discovery, or multi-entity search systems.
• Experience with semantic search, embeddings, ranking, recommendations, or personalization.
• Experience with Rust search/indexing systems or similar low-level indexing primitives.
• Experience building search systems over multiple heterogeneous entity types.

Life at amo

To ensure that everyone is set up for success within our way of working, we work together onsite 5 days a week.

• Health care (100% coverage).
• Maternity Leave, Paternity Leave, Second Parent Leave (salary maintained at 100%).
• Vacation days: 8-9 weeks (total) per year - (European summer? 🥹😎).
• 5 weeks of paid time off (by the state);
• 1-2 additional weeks (RTT, based on our company contract);
• ~11 bank holidays.