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  • Own search, discovery, and recommendations end to end, from underlying data and indices to relevance, ranking, and user-facing experience.
  • Build and improve backend services and APIs powering matching across a knowledge graph with focus on precision, recall, and performance.
  • Ship user-facing search and discovery features across the stack, partnering closely with product and design.

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$180,000–$230,000/yr
Global Unlimited PTO 12w maternity 12w paternity

  • Own and lead key components of Core Discovery services, focusing on Maps and Location surfaces and Directory search.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams including UX designers and data scientists to ensure comprehensive solutions.
  • Continuously learn and adopt new technologies to maintain scalable, innovative solutions.

Raya is a membership-based social network that enriches lives by fostering relationships through quality, in-person interactions. They prioritize learning and teamwork, offering a great culture and growth opportunities.

Canada

  • Lead and grow the Maps & Search team, owning hiring, coaching, and career development.
  • Stay hands-on, contributing to code and design reviews, architecture, and debugging.
  • Own and scale a high-throughput search platform handling ~1B monthly requests, driving relevance, latency, and reliability.

Luxury Presence is building the AI growth platform for real estate. Backed by Bessemer Venture Partners and other top investors, it is a Series C company that has hit $100M in annual recurring revenue and serves over 90,000 real estate professionals.

India

  • Own the full lifecycle of platform features from problem definition to deprecation planning.
  • Lead Search and Knowledge Graph platform evolution to reduce redundancy and optimize payload size.
  • Mentor engineers and elevate technical standards across the team.

H1 provides a platform that optimally informs every doctor interaction globally, promoting health equity and trust in healthcare systems. The company harnesses data and AI to unlock medical insights and improve patient outcomes.

$195,000–$255,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Lead the Search Platform team responsible for how customers discover restaurants on ezCater's marketplace.
  • Set technical direction for search engine architecture, indexing pipelines, and ranking strategy.
  • Coach engineers and partner with product, data, and AI/ML teams to improve search quality and platform reliability.

We are the #1 food tech platform for workplaces in the US, making it easy for organizations to manage food needs and order from over 125,000 restaurants nationwide. We are a growing company with an innovative, high-performing environment and passionate colleagues.

US Unlimited PTO 12w maternity 12w paternity

  • Design, build, and operate scalable backend systems powering discovery experiences.
  • Own and develop key backend components for location-based and search features.
  • Collaborate with engineering, product, and design teams to deliver user-focused solutions.

A fast-growing technology company focused on location-based discovery and search experiences. The company fosters a collaborative culture centered on innovation, empathy, and impact.

$140,000–$150,000/yr
US

  • Design and evolve distributed systems for ingesting and processing large volumes of legislative data.
  • Build and optimize scalable data pipelines and robust APIs for public civic technology platforms.
  • Lead technical decision-making on system architecture and mentor engineering team members.

Jobgether is an AI-powered job matching platform connecting candidates with hiring companies. It operates as a tech-enabled recruitment service processing applications and sharing top candidates with employers.

Canada Unlimited PTO

  • Design and build the backend services that power Operator, a system that helps engineering teams search company knowledge and surface design decisions.
  • Develop scalable retrieval pipelines, integrate structured and unstructured engineering data, and improve search quality and knowledge retrieval performance.
  • Collaborate with AI, Product, Design, and Engineering teams to deliver customer-facing capabilities and mentor teammates through code reviews and technical leadership.

CoLab is an AI platform that helps mechanical engineering teams bring life-changing products to market faster by driving stronger engineering decisions. It is a rapidly scaling company recognized on Deloitte's Fast 50 and Fast 500, and named a Canadian company to watch by The Globe and Mail and Financial Post.

US

  • Design and build data ingestion pipelines and knowledge bases using enterprise search and AI retrieval technologies.
  • Implement secure data access controls and retrieval evaluation frameworks to ensure accuracy and compliance.
  • Collaborate with architects and customer teams to align data strategies and enable long-term adoption of AI solutions.

A partner company specializing in enterprise AI and data solutions is seeking a Data / Search Specialist. The company operates with a focus on secure and scalable AI adoption, though its size and culture are not specified.

$190,000–$260,000/yr
3w PTO 12w maternity 12w paternity

  • Design and build crawling, indexing, and retrieval systems for Firecrawl Search at scale.
  • Push down latency and cost per query while improving ranking quality for LLMs.
  • Own services end-to-end from design to production with a focus on speed and iteration.

Firecrawl provides the easiest way to convert web content into clean, LLM-ready data for AI agents. With 147k+ GitHub stars and rapid growth to 8-figure ARR, we are a small, fast-moving team building infrastructure that other AI companies rely on.

$139,800–$256,300/yr
US Canada

  • Drive complex, high-impact engineering initiatives across personalized discovery, payments, and reimbursement workflows.
  • Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering leadership to align on roadmap priorities and execution strategy.
  • Mentor engineers and influence technical direction through strong collaboration and communication.

Outschool is an education technology platform that offers live online classes for learners ages 3-18, connecting families with educators worldwide. The company operates as a high-growth startup with a culture focused on innovation and personalized learning experiences.

$160,000–$180,000/yr
US

  • Get the lay of the land: dig into applications, services, and architecture, and pick the highest-leverage problems.
  • Own real problems early: take on hard problems from day one, shape design and reviews across teams.
  • Plug into the network: work shoulder to shoulder with engineers, Staff peers, PMs, designers, and engineering leadership.

DHI Group, Inc. is the parent company of career marketplaces Dice and ClearanceJobs, connecting candidates with career advice, resources, and dream jobs. They have a collaborative, supportive team culture that is a certified Great Place to Work, with 92% of employees saying it's a great place to work.

$136,400–$196,100/yr
US

  • Build solutions to help users get the most out of Algolia through experiments and A/B tests.
  • Collaborate with Product and Design teams to explore opportunities and contribute to the Growth platform.
  • Write high-quality, well-tested code and participate in code reviews to improve engineering processes.

Algolia is a pioneer and market leader in AI Search, empowering 17,000+ businesses to deliver fast, predictive search experiences at internet scale. We raised $150 million in Series D funding, quadrupling our valuation to $2.25 billion, and we foster a high-trust, flexible workplace culture where autonomy and collaboration are valued.

India

  • Own and contribute to architecture and development across products, driving technical excellence in both frontend and backend systems.
  • Develop and optimize backend API services with test-driven development including advanced caching and messaging for reliability and scalability.
  • Deliver high-quality frontend experiences using modern frameworks, with strong fundamentals in component-based architectures and state management.

HighLevel is an AI-powered business operating system that helps agencies, entrepreneurs, and SMBs build, automate, and scale their businesses. With over 2,000 team members across 10+ countries and a global remote-first culture, the company values initiative, clarity, and execution.

Canada

  • Define technical strategy for your team on a year-long scale, tying it to critical business projects.
  • Collaborate across teams in product development, ensuring technical sustainability and managing trade-offs.
  • Foster a culture of quality and ownership through code review standards, design advocacy, and mentorship.

Affirm is a financial technology company that offers buy now, pay later services without hidden fees. They are a remote-first company with a global engineering team, focused on honest and friendly credit.