Staff Backend Engineer, Search

United StatesRemote

Responsibilities

Responsibilities - Design and implement robust search solutions that scale with our rapidly growing user base - Improve search relevance, accuracy, and speed to deliver the most relevant results to users at blazing fast speeds - Improve our real-time indexing pipelines to ensure search results remain up-to-date - Create measurement frameworks to evaluate and improve search quality - Build and enhance vector search capabilities to power next-generation search experiences - Collaborate with AI, backend, and

At ClickUp, we're building the future of work: the first truly converged AI workspace unifying tasks, docs, chat, calendar, and enterprise search, all supercharged by context-driven AI.
We are an AI-native company.
Every team member is expected to leverage AI daily, and we evaluate AI fluency as part of our hiring process.
As a key member of our engineering team, you'll be responsible for optimizing and enhancing our search functionality, which is a critical feature of our platform and underpins our AI efforts.
Our platform is built as backend services on top of Postgres and OpenSearch, focused on real-time search ingestion and serving.
Requirements: - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field - 7+ years of
experience as a search engineer or in a directly related role - Hands-on production
experience with OpenSearch or ElasticSearch (strongly preferred); Solr
Experience with high-scale, real-time data ingestion and search serving in a backend services context - Proven ability to optimize query parsing, indexing, and relevance tuning for search systems -
experience with vector embeddings and semantic search implementations -
Experience with TypeScript in backend systems - Track record of architecting search solutions that maintain performance under heavy load -

Join us and help redefine what's possible. 🚀 ClickUp is seeking a talented and experienced Senior Search Engineer to join our team and help revolutionize our search capabilities.
Your impact at ClickUp As a Senior Engineer on the Search squad, you'll be responsible for designing, optimizing, and scaling our search infrastructure.
You'll work hands-on with these systems to ensure users can instantly find exactly what they need across their workspace.
Your expertise will directly contribute to making ClickUp the most intuitive and responsive productivity platform available. Core
experience considered but less ideal given its age -
Experience measuring and optimizing search quality Preferred
Qualifications: - Background in search ranking, relevance algorithms, and information retrieval - Hands-on