# Senior Software Engineer - Search Algorithms - Elasticsearch

**Company**: Elastic
**Location**: Romania
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: 272,000 Lei - 430,200 Lei RON
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/elastic/jobs/8161435?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_0bc4ab80-95c

## Description

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale , unleashing the potential of businesses and people.

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Elasticsearch - Search Relevance team. This globally-distributed team of expert engineers focuses on delivering a robust and feature-rich search experience, including contributing to improving the search experience in Lucene.

**What You Will Be Doing**

- Lead initiatives within Elasticsearch to produce an industry-leading search engine offering, supplying unparalleled speed and relevance in search.

- Contribute to Elasticsearch full time, building new search features and fixing intriguing bugs, all while making the code easier to understand.

- Work with a globally distributed team of experienced engineers focused on the vector search capabilities of Elasticsearch.

- Be an expert on Elasticsearch search relevance.

- Work with community members from all over the world on issues and pull requests.

- Write idiomatic modern Java.

**What You Bring**

- Professional experience with search or vector databases.

- Solid skills in core Java.

- Experience working with a high level of autonomy.

- Comfortable developing collaboratively.

- Proven track record of using AI to accelerate development.

- Ability to collaborate across functions and teams.

**Bonus Points**

- You've built things with Elasticsearch before.

- You've worked with open source projects.

- Experience with data storage technology.

- Experience designing, leading, and owning cross-functional initiatives.

The typical starting salary range for this role is: 272,000 Lei - 430,200 Lei RON

**Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People**

- Competitive pay.

- Health coverage for you and your family.

- Flexible locations and schedules.

- Generous number of vacation days.

- Increase your impact.

- Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects.

- Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Elasticsearch
- search algorithms
- vector databases
- Lucene

### Nice to have
- open source projects
- data storage technology
- cross-functional initiatives

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