Senior Software Engineer, Front

• Product-minded: committed to building the best user experience
• First experience building highly available, large-scale distributed search systems at a large-scale internet service (example: Elasticsearch)
• Knowledgeable about modern web technologies and an appetite to learn new ones, e.g. Node.js ES6, React, Redux, TypeScript
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced, collaborative, and high-growth environment
• Understand the trade-offs between different engineering solutions when solving a problem, value pragmatism over idealism

Desirable

• At Front, our search stack powers intelligent features and algorithms that help surface the most relevant results to users all across the product, improving product navigation, usability and delightfulness
• We’re looking for talented, self-motivated engineers with a background and interest in search to join Front's core search team based in Paris
• With work on the team ranging from conversation search to contacts autocomplete and spans the Front web, desktop, and mobile apps, we've only begun to scratch the surface of what we hope to see evolve into a unique, universal search experience that underpins the customer communication hub of the future
• Bring your search expertise to the team to transform our ideas into features, and improve the search experience for thousands of customers
• Have an impact on all the searchable resources at Front and beyond and become a solid contributor to the organization
• Improve our existing algorithms models to increase search accuracy
• Partner closely with researchers, designers, product managers and other engineers
• Some numbers (across 2 regions 🇺🇸 and 🇪🇺) 🔥:
• In-house managed Elasticsearch clusters
• 120 TB of production data
• 650M of search queries served per day
• 465M of indexing queries processed per day