3 months ago
Paris, FranceSenior
Responsibilities
- Build and improve search across multiple entity types.
- Develop geospatial search, indexing, query planning, retrieval, and ranking capabilities.
- Design search-quality metrics and feedback loops.
- Run offline evaluations and production experiments.
- Tune search results using relevance, popularity, personalization, and contextual signals.
- Explore semantic or embedding-based search where useful.
- Collaborate with backend and product teams to ship search improvements.
Requirements
- Senior-level experience building production search systems.
- Strong understanding of indexing, query planning, retrieval, and ranking.
- Experience with geospatial search.
- Experience with search-quality metrics, experimentation, and feedback loops.
- Experience evaluating, tuning, extending, or building search and indexing systems beyond basic API usage.
- Strong backend engineering fundamentals.
- Ability to reason about latency, relevance, correctness, and scale.
- Preferred experience with local search, maps, discovery, multi-entity search, semantic search, embeddings, ranking, recommendations, personalization, or Rust search and indexing systems.
Benefits
- Fully onsite five days per week at a central Paris office near Opera.
- 100% healthcare coverage.
- Maternity, paternity, and second-parent leave with salary maintained at 100%.
- 8–9 weeks of total vacation per year, including five weeks of statutory paid time off, 1–2 additional RTT weeks, and approximately 11 bank holidays.
- Company-wide shutdowns of two weeks in summer and one week in winter, included in total vacation time.
About amo
Amo builds consumer social apps for mobile, focusing on formats that blend short-form content and creator-led communities. Its current priority is Bump, a culture-driven app targeting Gen Z users, with an initial push in Brazil’s App Store. The company is privately held, headquartered in Paris, and raised a seed round in 2023.