Staff Backend Engineer (Search/AI)

TL;DR

Staff Backend Engineer, Search (AI): Responsible for designing, optimizing, and scaling the search infrastructure using OpenSearch/ElasticSearch to ensure users can find exactly what they need across their workspace with an accent on improving search relevance, accuracy, and speed. Focus on building and enhancing vector search capabilities to power next-generation search experiences.

Location: Must be based in the USA

Salary: $250K - $300K

Company

hirify.global is building the first truly converged AI workspace, unifying tasks, docs, chat, calendar, and enterprise search, all supercharged by context-driven AI.

What you will do

• Design and implement robust search solutions that scale with our rapidly growing user base.
• Improve search relevance, accuracy, and speed to deliver the most relevant results to users at blazing fast speeds.
• Improve out real-time indexing pipelines to ensure search results remain up-to-date.
• Build and enhance vector search capabilities to power next-generation search experiences.
• Collaborate with AI, backend, and product teams to integrate search into new features.
• Troubleshoot complex search-related issues at scale.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 7+ years of experience as a search engineer or in a directly related role.
• Strong expertise in search technologies, particularly OpenSearch / ElasticSearch.
• Experience measuring and optimizing search quality.
• Experience with high-volume, distributed data processing systems.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively across teams.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with vector embeddings and semantic search implementations.
• Experience with TypeScript in backend systems.
• Track record of architecting search solutions that maintain performance under heavy load.
• Experience applying machine learning and NLP to enhance search relevance.
• Knowledge of information retrieval concepts and search evaluation metrics.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to learn, use, and pioneer AI in ways that shape not only our product, but the future of work itself.
• We hire based on ambition, grit, and a passion for improving the way people work.
• We assess every candidate based on the potential impact they can have.
• We hire the best people for the job and support each person’s journey to build their boldest career.