Senior Software Developer, Search

MaintainX

Montreal, Canada
Base: not specified; bonus/equity: competitive sal...
On-site
Production-grade search systems end-to-end
Indexing, query execution, relevance tuning
Elasticsearch, opensearch, lucene, solr
Design and build MaintainX’s end-to-end search and retrieval platform — from indexing pipelines and ranking systems to AI-facing query layers

Job Summary

  • Design and build MaintainX’s end-to-end search and retrieval platform — from indexing pipelines and ranking systems to AI-facing query layers.
  • Operate and optimize distributed systems, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability under real-world load.
  • Competitive salary and meaningful equity opportunities, healthcare, dental, and vision coverage, and take what you need PTO.

Matching Summary

Design and build MaintainX’s end-to-end search and retrieval platform — from indexing pipelines and ranking systems to AI-facing query layers.

Salary

Base: Not specified; Bonus/Equity: Competitive salary and meaningful equity opportunities; Benefits: Healthcare, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k) / RRSP enrollment program

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • production-grade search systems end-to-end
  • indexing, query execution, relevance tuning
  • Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Lucene, Solr
  • embeddings, chunking, retrieval strategies
  • search-specific tuning, BM25, shard sizing
  • distributed systems operation and optimization

Nice-to-have

  • evaluating and improving search relevance
  • AI-powered or LLM-integrated backend systems
  • modern AI tools like GPT, Copilot
  • multi-tenancy and data security
  • building observability and success metrics

Key Requirements

  • Hands-on experience designing, building, and operating production-grade search systems
  • Understanding of embeddings, chunking, and retrieval strategies
  • Familiarity with search-specific tuning
  • Comfort taking systems from implementation to deployment and production operation

Work Rights

Not specified

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