Remote Senior Search Engineer

Summary

Join our team at Zeals, a fast-growing tech company in Japan, and be part of revolutionizing hospitality on the Internet. As a Senior Search Engineer, you will design and implement search algorithms to power our conversational commerce platform, collaborating with product, data science, and engineering teams.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a search engineer or in a related role
• Deep understanding of search engines, information retrieval, and ranking algorithms
• Strong proficiency with search technologies such as Elasticsearch, Solr, or Lucene
• Experience with Python and/or Java for building scalable backend systems
• Solid understanding of query parsing, indexing, and relevance tuning
• Familiarity with AI-powered search enhancements such as machine learning and natural language processing
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple projects simultaneously
• English proficiency is a must. Conversational Japanese is nice to have

Responsibilities

• Designing and developing search algorithms and infrastructure to enhance the relevance and speed of search results
• Optimising search models and tuning relevance metrics to meet business requirements
• Building and maintaining indexing, ranking, and query processing systems
• Collaborating with product and data science teams to integrate AI models and machine learning into search workflows
• Monitoring and optimising the performance of search engines across various use cases and data sets
• Ensuring data quality and relevance through the implementation of ranking systems and continuous testing
• Conducting code reviews and mentoring junior engineers
• Troubleshooting and resolving search-related issues to maintain system performance and availability

Benefits

• Salary Range : competitive (performance review every 6 months)
• Performance review: twice a year
• Holidays: 10 days paid holidays during the first year, weekends off, national holidays, summer and winter break
• Visa support: We sponsor visas for the right candidates. You can expect full visa support from our professional HR team
• Flexible working: Highly flexible, remote-first international organization
• Housing allowance (within 1.5KM away from office)
• Club activity allowance
• Shuffle Lunch allowance (Cross department lunch)
• Zeals Bar (bi-monthly free flow beer party)