ClickUp

Senior Backend Engineer, Search

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22 days ago
Remote, United StatesSenior

Base Salary

$200k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement scalable search solutions for a rapidly growing user base.
  • Improve search relevance, accuracy, query speed, parsing, indexing, and relevance tuning.
  • Improve real-time indexing pipelines so search results remain up to date.
  • Create measurement frameworks to evaluate and improve search quality.
  • Build and enhance vector search capabilities for next-generation search experiences.
  • Collaborate with AI, backend, and product teams to integrate search into new features.
  • Troubleshoot complex search-related issues at scale and architect systems that maintain performance under heavy load.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
  • At least 5 years of experience as a search engineer or in a directly related role.
  • Hands-on production experience with OpenSearch or Elasticsearch; Solr experience is also considered.
  • Experience with high-scale, real-time data ingestion and search serving in a backend-services context.
  • Experience optimizing query parsing, indexing, relevance tuning, and search quality.
  • Background in search ranking, relevance algorithms, and information retrieval is preferred.
  • Hands-on experience with vector embeddings and semantic search implementations is preferred.
  • Experience with TypeScript in backend systems is preferred.
  • Experience applying machine learning and natural language processing to improve search relevance is preferred.

Benefits

  • Remote role, indicated by the #LI-REMOTE designation.

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About ClickUp

5,001-10,000 employees

ClickUp builds an all-in-one work management platform for teams, combining tasks, docs, chat, whiteboards, calendars, time tracking, and AI features in a single workspace. It sells SaaS subscriptions with a freemium tier to individuals, SMBs, and enterprises, and integrates with common productivity tools. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Diego, the privately held company reports millions of users across project management, collaboration, and knowledge workflows.

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