Senior Software Engineer - Universal Search

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer – Universal Search to help shape the future of 3rd party search and data integration at Mark43. In this role, you’ll build and scale the systems behind our universal search platform that powers fast, accurate, and secure access to critical data across our RMS, CAD, and analytics products. You'll work on distributed systems, real-time data indexing, and modern search technologies to support life-saving decision making for our public safety users.

Responsibilities

• Led end-to-end system design for a new universal search experience across RMS, CAD, and other core components, collaborating with Product and cross-functional engineering teams to ensure a scalable, secure, and user-friendly solution that spans domains.
• Extended platform configurability and connectivity to tap new search data sources using AI-powered coding tools to accelerate development while maintaining high standards for code quality.
• Reviewed pull requests for enhancements to our authorization layer and index mappings in configurations, providing detailed architectural and performance-focused feedback to improve clarity, maintainability, and system resilience.
• Acted as release manager, coordinating deployment logistics, validating release readiness, and ensuring smooth, downtime-free updates to production through clear cross-team communication.
• Owared the end-to-end delivery of a feature supporting permission-aware global search filtering, aligning closely with Product, Infrastructure, and Design from technical feasibility through post-release monitoring.
• Mentored junior engineers, pair-programmed through complex debugging sessions, and coached teammates on prioritizing technical debt while delivering roadmap commitments.
• Participated in the on-call rotation, triaged and resolved a spike in failed search queries, and led a structured Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to drive follow-up improvements in system observability and alerting.

Requirements

• Proficiency in Java or TypeScript/JavaScript with strong backend development experience.
• Experience integrating and working with third-party systems to support search functionality across domains.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures using Amazon SNS, Amazon SQS, or Kinesis.
• Strong experience with AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, S3, ECS/EKS, DynamoDB, Aurora/RDS, IAM, and CloudWatch.
• Prior experience using AI engines to increase development velocity and deliver results.
• Solid understanding of indexing strategies, document schema design, and query optimization.
• Comfort working with CI/CD workflows and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools in a serverless-first, microservices-based architecture.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Qualifications

• At least 4+ years of professional experience.
• Take ownership, lead initiatives, and operate with autonomy in a distributed systems environment.

Skills

• Experience with multi-tenant platforms or large-scale search products.
• Knowledge of public safety or regulated domains.
• Understanding of security best practices around data access and query auditing.

Benefits

• Mark43 is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals.
• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.
• As a part of Mark43's security measures all employees must: Engage in appropriate use of the company's electronic information resources; Become knowledgeable about and follow relevant security policies and guidelines; Protect the resources under their control, such as passwords, computers, and data that they create, receive, or download; and Promptly report security-related incidents and violations, and responding to official reports of security incidents involving their systems or accounts.

Pay

Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience.

Schedule

The role is remote.