Senior Software Engineer (Search Platform)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (Search Platform): Building a first-class search architecture that supports dynamic product growth, focusing on designing and building services, pipelines, and tooling for the full search lifecycle. Focus on scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency of the search infrastructure.

Location: Poland, 100% remote work. We work in Central European Time.

Salary: 6,500 - 8,000 USD per month (B2B)

Company

hirify.global helps home service professionals (Pros) streamline every aspect of their business with tools for scheduling, dispatching, and payments.

What you will do

• Design and build platform services and tooling for search across hirify.global.
• Define conventions for document modeling, index design, query patterns, and ranking.
• Own and evolve our search infrastructure, focusing on scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency.
• Partner with product squads to design search-backed features and review their implementations.
• Implement and improve search observability, query optimization, caching, and fallbacks.
• Mentor engineers in search concepts and evangelize search best practices.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a backend or platform engineer working on large-scale, distributed systems.
• Experience with at least one modern server-side stack (e.g., Ruby/Rails, Python, Java, Kotlin, Node, etc.).
• Proven experience with Elasticsearch and/or OpenSearch, including designing and operating clusters in production.
• Solid understanding of vector databases, search infrastructure, indexing strategies, and query optimization.
• Hands-on experience with production observability and reliability.
• Fluency in both Polish and English.

Nice to have

• Experience with Ruby / Rails, event-driven architectures, MySQL at scale, or previous work on an internal platform or infrastructure team.

Culture & Benefits

• Paid time off and flexible work hours.
• 100% remote work.
• Equity shares in a rapidly growing company.
• A culture built on innovation that values big ideas.
• Newest MacBook + Setup Fee ($500).