Senior Software Engineer (Search Infrastructure)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (Search Infrastructure): Building and optimizing the cloud-based scalable architecture for NeuralSearch (AI search engine) with an accent on distributed components and vector search. Focus on solving complex distributed systems challenges, orchestrating index storage, and ensuring system reliability under high traffic.

Location: Must be based in London, UK (options for remote, hybrid, or office-based work within the country).

Salary: £82,640 - £94,286 GBP

Company

Market leader in AI Search, providing high-performance search APIs to over 17,000 businesses globally.

What you will do

• Contribute to the design and development of hirify.global's search infrastructure.
• Manage search operations, including participation in an out-of-hours on-call rota.
• Ensure the quality, soundness, and scalability of complex distributed systems.
• Collaborate with multiple teams to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve high-impact issues.
• Apply expertise in distributed systems to improve the overall platform performance.

Requirements

• Experience designing and operating distributed systems in production.
• Proven track record of working with large datasets and high-traffic environments.
• Strong adherence to high code quality, automated testing, and engineering best practices.
• Excellent spoken and written English skills.
• Experience working in high-growth companies (specifically within the $50-200M ARR range).

Nice to have

• Experience with Go.
• Experience with Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible workplace model emphasizing impact and output over physical location.
• High-trust environment with autonomy over where and when to work.
• Inclusive culture valuing diversity, grit, candor, and humility.
• Opportunity to work within a global, distributed team.