Senior Developer Backend Search CD+E

Role Overview

Senior Developer - Backend/Search focused on modernizing CI/CD pipelines and building scalable systems. You'll transform legacy processes into fast, reliable, and automated delivery workflows while maintaining and enhancing search infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and enhance search infrastructure for video platform
• Handle technical escalations and develop scalable search solutions
• Develop and maintain backend services, APIs, and stored procedures
• Untangle legacy build pipelines and turn them into clean, scalable systems
• Mentor junior developers and drive engineering improvements
• Design and optimize search systems with strong focus on performance

Required Skills

• 5+ years of backend development experience
• 3+ years hands-on experience with Apache Solr, including:
  • Schema design and configuration
  • Query optimization and performance tuning
  • Indexing strategies and data ingestion
  • Faceting, filtering, and search relevance
• .NET/C# and SQL Server expertise
• Strong understanding of search algorithms, tokenization, and text analysis
• RESTful API development experience
• Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and communication skills

Nice to Have

• Experience with Elasticsearch, Lucene, or other search engines
• Cloud platforms knowledge (AWS preferred)
• Microservices architecture experience
• Internationalization and multi-language search understanding

Team & Environment

• Distributed, international engineering team
• Strong ownership culture with end-to-end solution responsibility
• Focus on modernization, automation, and developer experience
• High autonomy to propose and implement improvements
• Collaborative environment with direct engineering velocity impact

Benefits

• Placement as full-time employee equivalent with product-based company
• Full back-office support including career guidance and HR services
• Remote-first policy with distributed team
• MacBook provided
• Growth opportunities through tech talks and chapter meetings
• Free English lessons with native speaker
• Candidate referral bonus program
• Optional access to Florianópolis headquarters with wellness amenities