Senior Software Engineer, Search

Highlights

• Drive search at the heart of flagship platform and agentic workflows.
• Help surface mission-critical information for DoW operational missions.
• Embed directly with operational units supporting real-world missions.

What they offer

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Remote friendly with WeWork access
• Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year
• 401(k) match
• Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel
• Equity

Ideal candidate

A mission-driven backend engineer passionate about search and information retrieval who thrives building reliable, scalable systems and partnering closely with product and mission teams.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in backend software development, with 3+ years in search, information retrieval, or related fields
• Passion for architecting, developing and deploying reliable, scalable, and performant systems
• Expertise in information retrieval, NLP, and machine learning
• Deep understanding of indexing, ranking, query parsing, tokenization, and vector search
• Hands-on experience with at least one major search engine (e.g., Elasticsearch, OpenSearch)
• Familiarity with search evaluation frameworks (e.g., precision, recall, NDCG)
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, leadership, and communication skills
• U.S. Person status is required as this position will require the ability to access U.S. only data systems