Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Search & Knowledge)

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Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in relevant domains.
• Proficient in designing and maintaining clear and robust APIs.
• Strong understanding of various protocols including gRPC and REST.
• Experience working closely with frontend engineering teams.
• Experience in high performance query optimization for structured and unstructured queries.
• Experience in Elasticsearch, including designing search schemas and optimizing performance.
• Experience in containerized application deployment with Kubernetes.
• Experience with one of the major cloud providers.

Responsibilities:

• Play a substantial role in the Cresta Search & Knowledge engineering team.
• Work with Cresta product and engineering teams to build and continuously improve the knowledge platform.
• Stay close to customers, analyze technical tradeoffs, and own customer-facing deliverables.
• Develop high quality, reusable, and well-tested system components.
• Optimize platform design for user experience, latency, throughput, reliability, and cost.
• Demonstrate engineering best practices and uphold high standards.
• Grow into technical ownership of a substantial part of the product.