Senior Backend Engineer, ClickUp

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
• 5+ years of experience as a search engineer or in a directly related role
• Strong expertise in search technologies, particularly OpenSearch / ElasticSearch
• Experience measuring and optimizing search quality
• Experience with high-volume, distributed data processing systems
• Proven ability to optimize query parsing, indexing, and relevance tuning for search systems
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively across teams
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Desirable

• ClickUp is seeking a talented and experienced Senior Search Engineer to join our team and help revolutionize our search capabilities
• As a key member of our engineering team, you'll be responsible for optimizing and enhancing our search functionality, which is a critical feature of our platform and underpins our AI efforts
• As a Senior Engineer on the Search squad, you'll be responsible for designing, optimizing, and scaling our search infrastructure
• You'll work with OpenSearch / ElasticSearch technologies to ensure users can instantly find exactly what they need across their workspace
• Your expertise will directly contribute to making ClickUp the most intuitive and responsive productivity platform available
• Design and implement robust search solutions that scale with our rapidly growing user base
• Improve search relevance, accuracy, and speed to deliver the most relevant results to users at blazing fast speeds
• Improve out real-time indexing pipelines to ensure search results remain up-to-date
• Create measurement frameworks to evaluate and improve search quality
• Build and enhance vector search capabilities to power next-generation search experiences
• Collaborate with AI, backend, and product teams to integrate search into new features
• Troubleshoot complex search-related issues at scale