Senior Search Engineer

WHAT YOU’LL DO

- Build and improve search across multiple entity types.

- Work on geospatial search, indexing, query planning, retrieval, and ranking.

- Design metrics and feedback loops for search quality.

- Run offline evaluations and production experiments.

- Tune results using relevance, popularity, personalization, and contextual signals.

- Explore semantic or embedding-based search where useful.

- Work closely with backend and product teams to ship search improvements.

MUST HAVE

- Senior-level experience building production search systems.

- Strong understanding of indexing, query planning, retrieval, and ranking.

- Experience with geospatial search.

- Experience with search quality metrics, experimentation, and feedback loops.

- Experience evaluating, tuning, extending, or building search/indexing systems beyond basic API usage.

- Strong backend engineering fundamentals.

- Ability to reason about latency, relevance, correctness, and scale.

NICE TO HAVE

- Experience with local search, maps, discovery, or multi-entity search systems.

- Experience with semantic search, embeddings, ranking, recommendations, or personalization.

- Experience with Rust search/indexing systems or similar low-level indexing primitives.

- Experience building search systems over multiple heterogeneous entity types.

LIFE AT AMO

To ensure that everyone is set up for success within our way of working, we work together onsite 5 days a week.

We wanted to make sure coming to the office was as comfortable as possible for you:

- We chose a location in central Paris, near Opera (Metro lines 3,8,9 and RER A).

- We have a beautiful Parisian-style office with high ceilings, balconies, and huge windows. So a lot of natural light!

Because life outside of work should also be stress-free, we cover:

- Health care (100% coverage).

- Maternity Leave, Paternity Leave, Second Parent Leave (salary maintained at 100%).

- Vac...