Staff Search Engineer

As a Staff Search Engineer, you’ll help lead the design and ongoing evolution of CreatorIQ’s real-time search platform — the core system that enables creator discovery across 30M profiles and billions of posts. You’ll architect and maintain Elasticsearch clusters, develop high-performance APIs in Go, and ensure the platform remains scalable, reliable, and responsive at large scale. This role blends hands-on development with supportive technical leadership, contributing to architecture decisions and offering guidance to engineers as they build a fast, dependable, and impactful search experience for our clients.

Responsibilities

Engage in back-end development to meet our product's evolving needs, ensuring robust, scalable, and high-performance solutions; Contribute to all stages of the product lifecycle, from conception to deployment, refinement, and scaling; Design, implement, and maintain ElasticSearch environments, aligning with the product's performance and scalability requirements; Work collaboratively with product managers, architects, and other team members to deeply understand and address user needs and business objectives; Uphold high standards in software development with a focus on clean, testable, and maintainable code; Participate actively in code reviews, architecture discussions, and continuous refinement of our development processes; Foster a culture of ownership where team members feel empowered and accountable for their contributions

Requirements

7-10+ years of software development experience with a strong background in computer science; 3+ years of recent ElasticSearch experience or similar; Capability to design and work with complex systems and high-load services; In-depth knowledge of ElasticSearch and familiarity with AWS infrastructure; Proven experience in Golang development or a strong willingness to learn and adapt; Solid foundation in computing theory, including OOP principles, database theory (RDBMS, NoSQL), and network interactions; Experience with REST API development, web application frameworks, testing frameworks, and version control systems (GIT); Proficiency in Python, PHP, or JavaScript (Node.js), Java, particularly in building scalable, high-load services; Familiarity with CI/CD processes and Agile development methodologies; Practical communication skills in English for working in an international team environment

Nice to have

Background in Laravel, Symfony Framework, or other significant frameworks is a plus; Experience or certifications in cloud computing platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure); Knowledge of orchestration and containerization technologies (e.g., Kubernetes); A passion for continuous learning and staying abreast of the latest industry trends

Benefits

People: work with talented, collaborative, and friendly people who love what they do; Guidance: utilize our learning platform to fully get the training and tools you’ll need to become successful here from your first day with us; Surprise meal stipends; Work/life harmony: vacation, floating and set holidays, wellness allowance, and paid parental leave; Whole Health Package: medical, dental, vision, life, disability insurance, and more; Work from home stipend