Senior Backend Engineer, Search

Core Responsibilities

• 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 our 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

Technical Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
• 5+ years of experience as a search engineer or in a directly related role
• Hands-on production experience with OpenSearch or ElasticSearch (strongly preferred); Solr experience considered but less ideal given its age
• Experience with high-scale, real-time data ingestion and search serving in a backend services context
• Proven ability to optimize query parsing, indexing, and relevance tuning for search systems
• Experience measuring and optimizing search quality

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in search ranking, relevance algorithms, and information retrieval
• Hands-on experience with vector embeddings and semantic search implementations
• Experience with TypeScript in backend systems
• Track record of architecting search solutions that maintain performance under heavy load
• Experience applying machine learning and NLP to enhance search relevance

Benefits

Equal Opportunity Employer

ClickUp is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

Pay

$200K - $250K