Senior Software Engineer - AI Search (Backend)

Seismic is a leading company in the AI space, focusing on transforming enterprise sales and marketing through innovative solutions. The Senior Software Engineer - AI Search will develop and optimize backend systems for search functionality, collaborating with various teams to enhance the platform's capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain backend systems and services for search functionality, ensuring high performance, scalability, and reliability
• Implement and optimize search and AI-driven semantic algorithms, indexing, and information retrieval techniques to enhance search accuracy and efficiency
• Collaborate with data scientists, AI engineers, and product teams to integrate AI-driven search capabilities across the Seismic platform
• Monitor and optimize search performance, addressing bottlenecks and ensuring low-latency query responses
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers, promoting best practices in search backend development
• Work closely with cross-functional and geographically distributed teams, including product managers, frontend engineers, and UX designers, to deliver seamless and intuitive search experiences
• Stay updated with the latest trends and advancements in search technologies, conducting research and experimentation to drive innovation

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering and a proven track record of building and scaling microservices and working with data retrieval systems
• 5+ Experience with C# and .NET, unit testing, object-oriented programming, and web services
• 3+ Experience with Python, with the ability to work concurrently on Python and .NET repositories
• 3+ Experience with Redis, including expertise in managing large-scale Redis clusters
• 2+ Experience with PostgreSQL, including maintaining and performing tuning
• Proficient in Test Driven Development (TDD) with hands-on experience using xUnit and Postman to develop automation test scripts
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.)
• Experience with Event driven architectures with tools like Kafka
• Experienced in container technologies such as Docker and proficient in microservice frameworks like Kubernetes (K8s)
• Experienced in Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) with expertise in developing Jenkins pipelines using Scala
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Microsoft Azure
• Knowledge of cloud-native services for AI/ML, data storage, and processing
• Extensive experience in SaaS application development and cloud technologies, with a deep understanding of modern distributed system and cloud operational infrastructure
• Experience in collaborating with product management and design, with the ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions that drive successful delivery
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with teams across different regions
• Ability to collaborate effectively with the China team and adapt to the China timezone is essential
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Experience working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, preferably in a SaaS or technology-driven company
• Design, develop, and maintain backend systems and services for search functionality, ensuring high performance, scalability, and reliability
• Implement and optimize search and AI-driven semantic algorithms, indexing, and information retrieval techniques to enhance search accuracy and efficiency
• Collaborate with data scientists, AI engineers, and product teams to integrate AI-driven search capabilities across the Seismic platform
• Monitor and optimize search performance, addressing bottlenecks and ensuring low-latency query responses
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers, promoting best practices in search backend development
• Work closely with cross-functional and geographically distributed teams, including product managers, frontend engineers, and UX designers, to deliver seamless and intuitive search experiences
• Stay updated with the latest trends and advancements in search technologies, conducting research and experimentation to drive innovation
• Experience with DDD (Domain driven development) or feature toggle (Launch Darkly) is good to have
• NewRelic, Snowflake, Ansible, Ninjia2 experience is a plus
• Front-end/full stack experience a plus
• Experience deploying containerized applications into Kubernetes is a plus
• Prefer expertise in search platforms like ElasticSearch, Apache Solr, or similar
• Experience with Natural Language Processing (NLP), semantic search and understanding of text processing techniques is a plus
• Scrum and JIRA experience a plus