Senior Software Engineer (Elasticsearch, Scala)
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What we know
Is it still open?
Confirmed still open
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We re-read the employer's own applicant tracking system and the posting was still there. That is the company answering directly.
How old is it?
Posted 13d ago
The date the source published, not the day we noticed it (2026-10-19). Last seen at its source 1h ago.
We have tracked this listing since 19 Oct 2026 (13 days). The employer's own board has carried it every time we have read it, most recently 1 hour ago.
Is it remote?
Marked remote on the employer's board
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Who may apply?
Georgia, Ukraine, Poland, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia
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Pay not stated
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Ashby employer's own board first seen 13d ago · last seen 1h ago
The listing
Solvd Inc. is a rapidly growing AI-native consulting and technology services firm delivering enterprise transformation across cloud, data, software engineering, and artificial intelligence. We work with industry-leading organizations to design, build, and operationalize technology solutions that drive measurable business outcomes.
Following the acquisition of Tooploox, a premier AI and product development company, Solvd now offers true end-to-end delivery—from strategic advisory and solution design to custom AI development and enterprise-scale implementation. Our capability centers combine deep technical expertise, proven delivery methodologies, and sector-specific knowledge to address complex business challenges quickly and effectively.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Elasticsearch, Scala) to join a team powering food search and logging for one of the world’s leading health and nutrition platforms. You’ll contribute directly to the systems that drive search — backend services, search infrastructure, and experimentation — with a focus on improving core metrics: conversion rates, time to log, query abandonment, and result relevance.
What you’ll do
Contribute to, build, and maintain backend services that drive the food search experience, integrating with systems across the broader engineering organization.
Perform search performance tuning end-to-end — data design, indexing, query evaluation, and iterative improvement within Elasticsearch.
Assist in the evaluation and implementation of search and data technologies that improve result quality and user experience.
Collaborate closely with senior search engineers, product management, and leadership on solution discovery, experiment planning, and delivery.
Contribute to the development of tools, processes, and metrics for measuring and monitoring search quality.
Required skills & experience
Elasticsearch
Demonstrated experience with performance tuning, query analysis, and relevance optimization in Elasticsearch at scale.
Strong understanding of index design, mapping strategies, cluster management, and scoring/ranking mechanics.
Familiarity with high availability, disaster recovery, and operational monitoring for Elasticsearch clusters.
Ability to deploy new indexes or clusters as needed for load balancing or experimentation.
Ability to translate product specifications into technical requirements and deploy ranking and relevance experiments with clearly defined success criteria and metrics.
Scala
Strong experience writing, shipping, and maintaining Scala services in production.
Comfortable working across a stack that also includes SQL and Python — Scala is the primary language for this engagement.
Agentic development
Active user of AI development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or comparable AI-powered coding environments — shipping production code with them, not just using autocomplete.
Familiarity with agentic coding patterns and workflows — code generation, refactoring, debugging, and test authoring.
Able to articulate how AI tooling fits into their development process and where human judgment remains critical.
Engineering fundamentals
First-hand experience building, scaling, and supporting large-scale data infrastructure systems in production.
Strong understanding of database design, data architecture, and performance tuning across multiple data stores — MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis, or similar.
Experience with high-volume messaging systems such as Kafka.
Familiarity with AWS, GCP, or other cloud platforms.
Strong peer code review practices.
Preferred qualifications
Experience leveraging AI workflows for meaningful development acceleration beyond autocomplete — code generation, refactoring, debugging, and test authoring at scale.
When you join Solvd, you'll…
Shape real-world AI-driven projects across key industries, working with clients from startup innovation to enterprise transformation.
Be part of a global team with equal opportunities for collaboration across continents and cultures.
Thrive in an inclusive environment that prioritizes continuous learning, innovation, and ethical AI standards.
Ready to make an impact?
If you're excited to build things that matter, champion responsible AI, and grow with some of the industry’s sharpest minds. Apply today and let’s innovate together.
Solvd is an equal opportunity employer.