Full-Stack Software Engineer, Search

What You'll Be Doing

• Collaborate with a fully distributed team around the world;
• Develop user interfaces and services for search on near.org
• Develop frameworks for software engineers to build search plugins;
• Make Performance optimizations and scalability/reliability improvements;
• Build user interfaces to display and filter through search results;
• Follow the minimal processes, like technical roadmaps, OKRs, milestones, regular team meetings;
• Develop components and applications in public clouds like GCP and AWS;
• Participate in on-call rotations;

What We're Looking For

• Hands-on experience building search experiences using ElasticSearch, Algolia or other Search-as-a-Service product is a must.
• Understanding data processing and storage solutions and ability to find balance between cost, performance and scalability.
• Experience building interactive user interfaces using React;
• Ability to quickly learn new programming languages and technologies.
• Creativity to come up with proof of concept from high level design while not knowing all the details;
• Ability to write clean yet efficient code in a variety of programming languages and technologies, including TypeScript, Rust, SQL, Python;
• Effective communication skills to convey your ideas and discuss with team members for technical challenges.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related fields is a must