Remote Senior Information Retrieval/Search Engineer

Summary

Join You.com as a Senior/Staff Information Retrieval/Search Engineer to develop search infrastructure and drive new product experiences using the latest advances in search, information retrieval, and AI.

Requirements

• Excellent programming and systems understanding
• Independently driven and holding themselves to very high standards
• Minimum of 4 years working on search/information retrieval projects
• Passion for search/information retrieval (and staying up-to-date on the latest trends)
• Experience building, maintaining, and innovating production search systems
• Familiarity with lexical and semantic retrieval methods
• Deep understanding of the search stack from indexing to ranking, as well as the tradeoffs between cost, latency, and quality

Responsibilities

• Develop the core you.com information retrieval/search infrastructure and the surrounding backend infrastructure
• Drive the development of new projects from ideation to deployment. This includes deep expertise in large-scale infrastructure, crawling, indexing, ranking, retrieval, and evaluation of search systems
• Ability to quickly iterate on a product based on user feedback in a rapidly changing environment

Benefits

• A remote-first work environment with hubs in California, NYC, and Canada that offer monthly in-person gatherings
• Unlimited PTO with 11 U.S. holidays observed and a week shutdown in December to rest and recharge
• Competitive health insurance plan, where 100% of the policyholder is covered and 75% for dependents
• 12 weeks of paid paternity leave in the US; additional time off is also considered
• 401k program, 3% match coming January 2025
• $500 work-from-home stipend to be used up to a year of your start date
• $1,200 / year Health & Wellness Allowance to support your personal goals