Senior Backend Engineer - Search & Discovery (all genders)

About our Product & Tech Department

Our mission is to digitize the classic shopping stroll, turning it into a personalized, inspiring experience for every customer. Technology and data sit at the center of everything we build. We are not a fashion company with a tech team on the side. Tech drives our product, our strategy, and our growth.
Our proprietary tech stack powers our own shops and SCAYLE, our commerce infrastructure solution that serves over 350 brands globally. Same foundation, bigger stage. The challenges keep things interesting.

What To Expect

• Develop the search engine behind ABOUT YOU, covering query understanding, entity resolution, and semantic vector search in Node.js/TypeScript
• Blend OpenSearch relevance, embedding similarity, and behavioral re-ranking signals into unified search results
• Build search-index pipelines (entities, synonyms, k-NN product vectors) streaming data from BigQuery into OpenSearch
• Integrate LLMs and embedding models (Gemini, Vertex AI) under tight latency budgets with caching and fallback layers
• Guard search relevance using golden lists, regression suites, and continuous A/B experiments
• Shape architecture alongside our Tech Lead and collaborate closely with data analysts, engineers, and product managers

Who You Are

• You love investigating the 'why' behind search outcomes and turning those findings into actionable technical improvements
• 5+ years of experience building scalable, low-latency backend APIs (Node.js/TypeScript preferred, or fast-converting from Java, Go, or Kotlin)
• Real depth in Elasticsearch/OpenSearch (mappings, custom analyzers, percolators, scoring functions) beyond just basic query clients
• Strong algorithmic intuition for ranked data (merging, deduplication, score blending, and latency trade-offs)
• You're excited to bridge backend engineering and ML by serving model scores, embeddings, or LLM features in production
• Fluent English communication skills and a pragmatic, data-curious mindset

Nice to Have

• IR/NLP fundamentals (tokenization, multilingual search, relevance evaluation frameworks)
• Vector search experience (k-NN/HNSW indices, SigLIP embeddings, recall vs. latency tuning)
• LLM engineering (prompt caching, timeout budgets, Datadog LLM Observability)
• Familiarity with BigQuery, dbt, or Dagster pipelines

Salary range

70k - 85k €